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GNOME Shell & Mutter 49 Alpha 1 Released With More Changes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 June

Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are the "Alpha 1" releases...

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AMD Strix Halo, Snapdragon X & Linux Graphics Were Most Popular This Quarter

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 June

With Q2 quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and other Linux/open-source news for the quarter...

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Linux 6.16 Extends Cleaner Shader Support To More AMD CDNA/GFX9 GPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 June

The past number of months has seen work by AMD Linux driver engineers in enabling cleaner shader functionality for various generations of GPUs to help ensure user/application isolation. Being merged overnight as part of the AMDGPU "fixes" for Linux 6.16 is cleaner shader support for more AMD GFX9 / CDNA hardware, notably to benefit various Instinct accelerators with this security feature...

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RADV Ray-Tracing Lands Pointer Flags Support For RDNA3 & Newer

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 June

The RADV Vulkan driver's ray-tracing performance has improved a lot over time such as shown within yesterday's RADV vs. AMDVLK performance comparison on Strix Point. Coincidentally, merged today is yet another ray-tracing optimization to benefit RDNA3 (GFX11) and newer AMD graphics processors...

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LACT 0.8 GPU Configuration & Monitoring Tool Introduces More Features

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 June

While a number of Linux desktop users have expressed disappointment over Intel and AMD not providing any GUI for their GPU driver settings and similar functionality like they do under Windows, there are a number of third-party open-source GUI programs for managing graphics driver settings. One of the most capable solutions is LACT for GPU configuration and monitoring. Out today is LACT 0.8 with more features now in place...

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KDE Devs Add Wayland Session Management To Qt 6.10, Inertial Scrolling For Qt Quick Apps

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 June

KDE developers this week have been busy with a mix of polishing the recent Plasma 6.4 release as well as taking on more feature development work for Plasma 6.5 coming later in the year...

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"Tyr" Announced As New Rust-Written Linux Kernel Graphics Driver

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 June

An unexpected announcement this Friday evening is an introduction to Tyr, a new Linux kernel DRM graphics driver written in the Rust programming language. As is sadly becoming more common among Linux GPU kernel drivers is the increasing obscure driver names. Tyr?!?..

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Wine 10.11 Makes More Preparations For NTSYNC Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June

Wine 10.11 is out for testing today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for running Microsoft Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

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RADV vs. AMDVLK Driver Performance For Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Graphics

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June

The latest in our ongoing testing of AMD Strix Halo performance using the HP ZBook Ultra G1a is analyzing the Vulkan API performance between Mesa's RADV driver and the AMDVLK official open-source AMD Vulkan driver for Linux systems. More than one hundred benchmarks were run looking at the performance from Steam Play games to Vulkan compute workloads.

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