AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Linux Performance Review (www.phoronix.com)
OBS Merges FFmpeg VA-API AV1 Support (www.phoronix.com)
Windows NT Sync Driver Proposed For The Linux Kernel - Better Wine Performance (www.phoronix.com)
Valve Releases Proton 8.0-5 With Many Fixes, More Windows Games Now Playable (www.phoronix.com)
Valve Releases Proton 8.0-5 With Many Fixes, More Windows Games Now Playable (www.phoronix.com)
Wayland Protocols 1.33 Released With DMA-BUF Stable, Adds Transient Seat Protocol (www.phoronix.com)
The Linux DMA-BUF protocol for Wayland is widely used these days and supported by multiple compositors for negotiating optimal buffer allocation parameters between clients and compositors. The current fifth version of linux-dmabuf was marked as stable with it working out well and no need for any other changes before removing the...
Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results For Gaming Performance (www.phoronix.com)
tl;dr large gaming performance over stock CPU scheduler when there is a heavy CPU task running in background...
Hans Reiser Apologies For Social Mistakes, Comments On ReiserFS Deprecation From Prison (www.phoronix.com)
Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results For Gaming Performance (www.phoronix.com)
Lutris 0.5.15 Fixes Crashes When Using Wayland With High DPI Gaming Mice (www.phoronix.com)
Lutris 0.5.15 Fixes Crashes When Using Wayland With High DPI Gaming Mice (www.phoronix.com)
Fedora 40 Looks To Ship AMD ROCm 6 For End-To-End Open-Source GPU Acceleration (www.phoronix.com)
AMD P-State Preferred Core Support For Linux Tried A 13th Time (www.phoronix.com)
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.
Intel's New "Xe" Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8 Along With Imagination's PowerVR Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.8 Adds New Gaming Handhelds, Google Tensor & Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 + X Elite SoCs (www.phoronix.com)
Valve Lands A Last Minute AMD ACO Improvement For Mesa 24.0 (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa's NVK Vulkan Driver Lands A Pipeline Shader Cache (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa's NVK Vulkan Driver Lands A Pipeline Shader Cache (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40% (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.8 HID: Steam Controller Driver Fixes From SteamOS, Nintendo NSO Controller Support (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)
GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 Alpha Released - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.7 should be released later today as the first stable kernel of 2024. In turn the Linux 6.8 merge window will then open tomorrow and run for the next two weeks. For those curious about the features expected for Linux 6.8, here’s an early look at some of the changes expected to land for that next kernel cycle....
Mesa RADV Driver Baking Improvements For VKD3D-Proton With AMD FSR3 (www.phoronix.com)
