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      Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Driver Enables Shader Object Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 April, 2023

    Introduced one month ago in Vulkan 1.3.246 was the new VK_EXT_shader_object extension that was worked on by developers from Activision to Valve. Zink lead developer Mike Blumenkrantz at Valve has been busy the past few weeks on getting this shader object support wired up for use by this OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver...
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      Linux Has A New Firewire IEEE-1394 Maintainer - Intends To Maintain Support To 2029

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 April, 2023

    It's likely been years since many of you have heard of Firewire and some readers likely never had the opportunity to use it. The Firewire interface was great back in the day and during the early period of digital video cameras, but modern versions of USB and Thunderbolt are far faster, allow longer cable distances, and numerous other advantages. While Firewire hasn't seen much activity in years and can be outpaced by USB 3.0 and beyond, there is a new Firewire subsystem maintainer for the Linux kernel and he intends to keep at it for the next six years...
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      Vulkan 1.3.249 Introduces New Ray-Tracing Extension

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 April, 2023

    Vulkan 1.3.249 is out today as the latest spec update for this industry-standard high performance graphics and compute API. Notable with Vulkan 1.3.249 is the introduction of VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch...
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      The Old Radeon "R600g" Gallium3D Driver Drops Its TGSI Code Path

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 April, 2023

    For those making use of the Radeon R600 Gallium3D driver within Mesa for supporting the Radeon HD 2000 series through the HD 6000 series (pre-GCN) graphics cards, Mesa 23.2 is finally ready to drop its TGSI code path for what was once the default intermediate representation (IR) used by Gallium3D drivers but in more recent years NIR has become the preferred IR format...
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      Intel Lunar Lake HD Audio & Other Sound Changes For Linux 6.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 April, 2023

    Linux sound subsystem maintainer and SUSE engineer Takashi Iwai submitted all of the sound driver updates this week for the ongoing Linux 6.4 kernel merge window...
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      Dragora 3.0 Beta 2 OS Released: 10+ Years In Development, FSF Backed & Using SysV Init

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 April, 2023

    Dragora remains one of the few Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation and is a from-scratch distribution focused on providing only free software... The last stable release of the Linux distribution was Dragora 2.2 back in 2012 while out today is Dragora 3.0 Beta 2, which itself is coming three and a half years since the prior beta...
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      Linux 6.4 Brings Improved MSI Laptop Support, Apple GMUX Support For T2 Macs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 April, 2023

    The x86 platform driver updates for the Linux 6.4 kernel merge window have landed. This includes numerous x86 laptop driver benefits as well as other new features for the platform-drivers-x86 subsystem...
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      GNOME 44.1 Released With Many Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 April, 2023

    It's been one month already since the debut of GNOME 44 and out today is the first point release...
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      Windows 11 WSL2 Performance vs. Ubuntu Linux With The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 April, 2023

    When carrying out the recent Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.04 benchmarks with the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Zen 4 3D V-Cache desktop processor, I also took the opportunity with the Windows 11 install around to check in on the Windows 11 WSL2 performance. Here is a fresh look at Ubuntu with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2 on Windows 11) compared to the bare metal performance of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on the same hardware as well as the new Ubuntu 23.04.