GNOME Shares Update On Sovereign Tech Fund & Other Development Funding (www.phoronix.com)
Valve Working On Explicit Sync Support For "NVK" NVIDIA Vulkan Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver (www.phoronix.com)
APT 2.9 Released: Debian's APT 3.0 To Have A New UI With Colors, Columnar Display & More (www.phoronix.com)
Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.8-rc7 Released With The Stable Kernel Potentially Coming Next Week (www.phoronix.com)
Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 6.8-rc7 as we close in on the Linux 6.8 stable release in the next week or two....
AMD Zen 4 vs. Zen 4C Performance, Zen 4C Core Scaling With Ryzen 5 8500G (www.phoronix.com)
Vulkan 1.3.278 Released With Two New Extensions - One Will Help Wine / Steam Play (www.phoronix.com)
Vulkan 1.3.278 Released With Two New Extensions - One Will Help Wine / Steam Play (www.phoronix.com)
NVIDIA GH200 CPU Performance Benchmarks Against AMD EPYC Zen 4 & Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids Review (www.phoronix.com)
Cassia Aims To Pair Wine/DXVK/VKD3D-Proton/FEX For Windows Games On Android (www.phoronix.com)
Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension (www.phoronix.com)
35-Way Linux GPU Graphics Comparison, Initial NVIDIA RTX 40 SUPER Linux Benchmarks Review (www.phoronix.com)
Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results For Gaming Performance (www.phoronix.com)
For At Least One Game, Mesa's NVK Driver Can Outperform NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Decided to try it… Hat in Time 1080p, Very High, VSync OFF. NVK is vulkan-nouveau-git gddf2ca4, on kernel 6.7.0-rc5-1-mainline. Blob is 545.29.06. 3995WX+RTX3090. Proton Experimental....
The Performance & Power Improvement Of Steam Deck OLED's 6nm APU (www.phoronix.com)
Another Look At The Bcachefs Performance on Linux 6.7 Review (www.phoronix.com)
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NVK Driver Nearing Vulkan 1.1 For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 & Newer (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Begins Sorting Out SR-IOV Support For The Xe Kernel Graphics Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Bcachefs Merged Into The Linux 6.7 Kernel (www.phoronix.com)
PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching (www.phoronix.com)
Linux Will Finally Indicate Via /proc/cpuinfo If AMD SVM Virtualization Is Disabled (www.phoronix.com)
Sound Open Firmware 2.7 Released With AMD Van Gogh Support (www.phoronix.com)
Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.10 Performance On ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 (AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U) (www.phoronix.com)
Even Ubuntu - one of the slowest Linux distributions wipes the floor with windows. Even without huge optimizations that are present in the newest kernels and with the worst CPU governor. Wonder if slower GPU performance is due to mentioned governor?