The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away (www.phoronix.com)
Linux Patch To Disable The Snapdragon X Elite "X1E80100" GPU By Default (www.phoronix.com)
Updated Intel Meteor Lake Tuning For Linux Shows Huge Performance/Power Improvements (www.phoronix.com)
KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support (www.phoronix.com)
The four month old KWin merge request by Xaver Hugl to allow for triple buffering has been merged and just in time for the Plasma 6.1 code branching!
ZLUDA Has Been Seeing New Activity For CUDA On AMD GPUs (www.phoronix.com)
ZLUDA is a drop-in CUDA implementation for AMD GPUs
AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At Parity Between KDE Plasma 6.0 X11 vs. Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Delayed Due To XZ Nightmare (www.phoronix.com)
AMD's Longtime Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Advocate Retires (www.phoronix.com)
AMD continues to lock down AMDGPU features (www.phoronix.com)
Well, apparently, after just a few years the ability to control GPU operation in Linux will slide down considerably.
Steam's February Survey: AMD CPUs & GPUs Continue To Dominate For Linux Gamers (www.phoronix.com)
Windows NT Synchronization Primitive Driver Updated For The Linux Kernel (www.phoronix.com)
Godot 4.3 Game Engine To Feature Native Wayland Support (www.phoronix.com)
AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Linux Performance Review (www.phoronix.com)
MSI Launches Claw A1M Handheld Gaming Device With Core Ultra 7 CPU, Starts At $699 [Windows 11 Home as OS] (www.phoronix.com)
Feral's GameMode 1.8 Adds CPU Core Pinning and Parking (www.phoronix.com)
Mainline Linux Support Is Being Worked On For A $100~200 ARM Handheld Gaming Console (www.phoronix.com)
Bcachefs Lands Another Round Of Fixes For Linux 6.7 (www.phoronix.com)
Godot 4.2 Released With More Stability Improvements, Improved Rendering & AMD FSR 2.2 (www.phoronix.com)
Wine Wayland Driver's Vulkan Support Is Now Usable (www.phoronix.com)
WINE The third and final part of the Vulkan enablement code for allowing Vulkan API graphics use within the Wine Wayland driver has been merged to Wine Git....
PCSX2 Emulator Disables Wayland Support By Default (www.phoronix.com)
Terakan Driver Continues Working To Bring Vulkan To The Radeon HD 6000 Series (www.phoronix.com)
tl;dr WIP Vulkan support for old HD 6000 cards (late 2000s/early 2010s) developed by dev that also works on Xenia and implemented the complicated fragment shader interlock extension used by some emulators
Debian Resumes Merged /usr Transition By Repealing Moratorium (www.phoronix.com)
Debian 12 had aimed to have a merged “/usr” file-system layout similar to other Linux distributions, but The Debian Technical Committee earlier this year decided to impose a merged-/usr file movement moratorium. But now with Debian 12 having been out for a few months, that moratorium has been repealed....