The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away (www.phoronix.com)
Alice “psykose” who is easily responsible for the highest number of commits per author over the past year has decided to step down from maintaining her packages....
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SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0 (www.phoronix.com)
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OBS Studio 30.1 Released With AV1 Support For VA-API & PipeWire Video Capture (www.phoronix.com)
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Linux 6.9 To Support Samsung Wireless Gamepad, Keyboards & Action Mouse (www.phoronix.com)
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Cyberus Develops Open-Source KVM Backend For VirtualBox (www.phoronix.com)
Making use of Linux’s Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) opens up new possibilities while users can still enjoy the VirtualBox VMM itself. The KVM support is part of the mainline kernel so there is less worries with not having to use the VirtualBox kernel driver, KVM tends to support new features quite quickly, and tends to be...
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Mesa's NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 Support (www.phoronix.com)
This Vulkan 1.3 support for NVK is thus one of the many new features to find in the Mesa 24.1 release due out in Q2. This comes following all of the necessary extensions being wired up and NVK continuing to mature at a rather brisk pace.
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One Line Patch Doubles Mesa NVK Performance For Talos Principle... To 18 FPS - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
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AMD Publishes FSR 3 Source Code (www.phoronix.com)
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Power Management Bugs Hold Up Some Linux Laptops Due To Regulatory Requirements (www.phoronix.com)
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TUXEDO Computers Launches First All-AMD Linux Gaming Laptop (www.phoronix.com)
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The Ongoing Work For Native Wine Wayland Support (www.phoronix.com)
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Mesa's Radeon Vulkan Driver Has Become Much More Capable At Ray-Tracing, Thanks To Valve (www.phoronix.com)
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Curl Preps For "Probably The Worst Curl Security Flaw In A Long Time" (www.phoronix.com)
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Xfce's Wayland Roadmap Updated (www.phoronix.com)
The Xfce Wayland road-map on the project’s Wiki has been updated a few times over the past two weeks, namely around the desktop panel plug-ins and applications support for Wayland. There still isn’t a firm timeline or release where they expect to have a complete Xfce Wayland transition complete, but ultimately are aiming to...
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GNOME 45's Mutter Implements A Dedicated KMS Thread (www.phoronix.com)
Red Hat’s Jonas Ådahl began working on this Mutter KMS kernel thread implementation a half-year ago and finally it recently was merged for the GNOME 45 release due out in September. By having this dedicated thread there should be lower latency cursor movements and possible avoidance of cursor stutter. It should be a latency...
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Steam On Linux(1.96%) Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS(1.84%) (www.phoronix.com)
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NVK Merge Request Opened For Landing Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver In Mesa (Phoronix) (www.phoronix.com)
[Faith] Ekstrand sums up the current feature state for NVK as:...
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Direct3D 8 Support "D8VK" Merged Into DXVK (www.phoronix.com)
cross-posted from https://reddthat.com/post/21846504
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Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors (www.phoronix.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/13237910...
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Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Moving To NVK + Zink For OpenGL On Newer GPUs (www.phoronix.com)
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Intel Posts Patches For Plane Color Pipeline Support On Linux - Jiving With AMD's Design (www.phoronix.com)
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Intel Thread Director Virtualization Patches Boost Some Workloads By ~14% (www.phoronix.com)
With this Intel Thread Director Virtualization to ensure the VM can properly manage task placement between P and E cores, the feature ended up yielding around 14% better performance than the status quo. That 14% win was with the 3DMark benchmark running on a Windows VM.
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Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension (www.phoronix.com)
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Valve Releases Proton 8.0-5 With Many Fixes, More Windows Games Now Playable (www.phoronix.com)
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