The Greenfield In-Browser Wayland Compositor Is Fast Enough For Gaming (www.phoronix.com)
Another Optimization Comes For Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing In Mesa 24.1 (www.phoronix.com)
Cassia Aims To Pair Wine/DXVK/VKD3D-Proton/FEX For Windows Games On Android (www.phoronix.com)
Niri 0.1.1 Wayland Compositor Adds Support For Taskbars, Output Rotation & More (www.phoronix.com)
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Intel Thread Director Virtualization Patches Boost Some Workloads By ~14% (www.phoronix.com)
With this Intel Thread Director Virtualization to ensure the VM can properly manage task placement between P and E cores, the feature ended up yielding around 14% better performance than the status quo. That 14% win was with the 3DMark benchmark running on a Windows VM.
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)
Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension (www.phoronix.com)
IPU6 Firmware Binaries Upstreamed For Recent Intel Laptops (www.phoronix.com)
Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension (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
Mesa 24.0 Released With Faster Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing & Initial PowerVR Vulkan Driver (www.phoronix.com)
35-Way Linux GPU Graphics Comparison, Initial NVIDIA RTX 40 SUPER Linux Benchmarks Review (www.phoronix.com)
Godot 4.3 Game Engine To Feature Native Wayland Support (www.phoronix.com)
RHEL's Source Code Access Change Is Causing Issues For CentOS SIGs (www.phoronix.com)
SDL 3.0 Adds Colorspace Concept, More Code Coming From Valve Around HDR (www.phoronix.com)
GNOME Sees Progress On Variable Refresh Rate Setting, Adding Battery Charge Control (www.phoronix.com)
As pointed out in This Week in GNOME, there’s been some continued work on Variable Rate Refresh for the GNOME desktop. The VRR setting within GNOME Settings continues to be iterated on as the developers iron out how they’d like to present the Variable Rate Refresh setting for users. The developers have been discussing how to...
Niri Debuts As A Scrollable -Tiling Wayland Compositor Inspired By PaperWM (www.phoronix.com)
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Mesa's NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 Support (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa's NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 Support (www.phoronix.com)
This Vulkan 1.3 support for NVK is thus one of the many new features to find in the Mesa 24.1 release due out in Q2. This comes following all of the necessary extensions being wired up and NVK continuing to mature at a rather brisk pace.
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...
Mesa's NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 Support (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa's NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 Support (www.phoronix.com)
NVIDIA 550 Linux Beta Driver Released With Many Fixes, VR Displays & Better (X)Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
AMD Core Performance Boost Patches Posted For P-State Linux Driver (www.phoronix.com)
