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Wine Code Merged To Overcome A Vulkan Performance Penalty (www.phoronix.com)

Steam's February Survey: AMD CPUs & GPUs Continue To Dominate For Linux Gamers (www.phoronix.com)

store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/...

Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Now Declared Vulkan 1.3 Conformant, Mesa 24.1 To Build By Default (www.phoronix.com)

Proton 9.0 Beta Makes More Games Playable Under Steam Play, Updates VKD3D-Proton & DXVK (www.phoronix.com)

Intel Arc Graphics A580 / A750 / A770 Linux Performance For Early 2024 Review (www.phoronix.com)

Steam On Linux Falls Short Of 2% For January, AMD CPU Adoption On Linux Hits 70.5% (www.phoronix.com)

More AMD SEV-SNP Support To Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.9 (www.phoronix.com)

Addition article: amd.com/…/amd-secure-encrypted-virtualization

Arch-Based Endeavour OS Updates ISO With Linux 6.7 Kernel, Mesa 23.3.3 (www.phoronix.com)

Endeavour OS “Galileo Neo” is out with new ISO spins to incorporate the Linux 6.7 kernel. This doesn’t affect existing Endeavour OS users who proactively update their packages but is intended for new users and those deploying new installations that may depend upon newer hardware support found in Linux 6.7, such as for...

Valve Lands A Last Minute AMD ACO Improvement For Mesa 24.0 (www.phoronix.com)

With testing many different shaders over dozens of games, the generated instruction count was down by about 2.5%, the code size around 2% lower, etc. Some users report this quantifying in some games like Cyberpunk 2077 yielding 4~14% better performance.

Benchmarking The Experimental Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Build For Greater Performance On Modern CPUs (www.phoronix.com)

Debian 12.3 Delayed Due To An EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Being Addressed (www.phoronix.com)

OpenZFS 2.2.1 Released Due To A Block Cloning Bug Causing Data Corruption - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)

Oh boy, here we go

Btrfs Slated To Make Use Of New Mount API In Linux 6.8 (www.phoronix.com)

Wine 8.21 Released With HiDPI Scaling and Initial Vulkan Code For The Wayland Driver (www.phoronix.com)

Intel Begins Sorting Out SR-IOV Support For The Xe Kernel Graphics Driver (www.phoronix.com)

The Ongoing Work For Native Wine Wayland Support (www.phoronix.com)

AMD ROCm + PyTorch Now Supported With The Radeon RX 7900 XTX (www.phoronix.com)

Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations (www.phoronix.com)

Intel Comes Up With A Way For Vulkan Sparse Support On Their Existing Linux Driver (www.phoronix.com)

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Begins Working On Pipeline Caching (www.phoronix.com)

Linux 6.6 Looks To Be Very Lucrative For AMD Server Performance (www.phoronix.com)

XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 Released With Accent Color Support, New Clipboard & Input Capture Portals (www.phoronix.com)

PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param (www.phoronix.com)

This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous 0.3.x releases....

Bcachefs Merged Into Linux-Next (www.phoronix.com)

Bcachefs making progress towards getting included in the kernel. My dream of having a Linux native RAID5 capable filesystem is getting closer to reality.

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