Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver [Linux] Improvement Scores Huge Ray-Tracing Wins (www.phoronix.com)
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Improvement Scores Huge Ray-Tracing Wins (www.phoronix.com)
Steam On Linux At Nearly 2% For Ending Out 2023 (www.phoronix.com)
AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023 (www.phoronix.com)
Valve's Linux Contributions, Wayland & Open-Source NVIDIA Milestones Topped 2023 (www.phoronix.com)
Benchmarking The Experimental Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Build For Greater Performance On Modern CPUs (www.phoronix.com)
KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future (www.phoronix.com)
Well known KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a blog post today outlining his latest Wayland thoughts, how X11 is a bad platform, and the recent topic of “Wayland breaking everything” isn’t really accurate....
Nobara 39 Released - Customized Version Of Fedora Catering To Gamers/Enthusiasts (www.phoronix.com)
KDE KWin Merge Request Opened For Dynamic Triple Buffering (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Arrow Lake Sound Support Ready For Linux 6.8 (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.8 To Add Intel Idle Driver Support For Sierra Forest & Grand Ridge (www.phoronix.com)
Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues (www.phoronix.com)
Among the Firefox Wayland bugs, one of the top crash bugs is over a lost connection to a Wayland compositor. For dealing with it is to have a proxy between Firefox and the Wayland compositor to cache messages and prevent compositor message queue overflows.
QEMU 8.2 Released With New VirtIO-Sound & VirtIO-GPU "Rutabaga" Devices (www.phoronix.com)
Debian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Future (www.phoronix.com)
Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support (www.phoronix.com)
Debian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Future - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
Firefox 121 Now Available With Wayland Enabled By Default (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....
One Line Patch Doubles Mesa NVK Performance For Talos Principle... To 18 FPS - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
For At Least One Game, Mesa's NVK Driver Can Outperform NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver (www.phoronix.com)
For At Least One Game, Mesa's NVK Driver Can Outperform NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Box64 v0.2.6 Brings Support For More CPU Extensions, Better Syscall Emulation [older and more X86 PC games run better on ARM PC] (www.phoronix.com)
AMD Publishes FSR 3 Source Code (www.phoronix.com)
KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway (www.phoronix.com)
openSUSE Logo Contest Concludes With Winners Selected (www.phoronix.com)
For those that were interested in the openSUSE logo contest, the voting wrapped up on Tuesday and the results of this logo contest for new openSUSE branding have been selected.
