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      Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Performance Looking Very Good For Intel Arc Graphics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 April, 2023

    Mesa's Zink driver that implements OpenGL atop the Vulkan API has for a while been in wonderful shape for open-source AMD Radeon graphics and even in decent shape for the NVIDIA proprietary driver stack while it's also been getting into more robust shape for use on Intel's dedicated graphics cards...
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      KDE Developers Focused On Tackling Many Bugs This Week

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 April, 2023

    KDE developers were quite busy this week... In addition to shipping KDE Gear 23.04, lots of bug fixing took place this week with around half of Plasma's VHI priority bugs being addressed...
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      Manjaro 22.1 "Talos" Released With Various Updates

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 April, 2023

    Building off December's release of Manjaro 22.0, this Arch Linux based distribution is out now with its next iteration...
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      Btrfs Receives A Very Important Last Minute Fix For Linux 6.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 April, 2023

    Ahead of the Linux 6.3 kernel being potentially released as stable on Sunday, two last minute patches for the Btrfs file-system driver were submitted today to address a pressing problem since Linux 6.2...
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      Intel Updates Packaged Arc Graphics Driver For Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 April, 2023

    While Linux 6.2 supports Arc Graphics out-of-the-box and Mesa 23.1 has good OpenGL/Vulkan support, for those running Linux distributions on older kernels and Mesa packages there is less than ideal support -- either no support at all or having to resort to force-enabling the DG2/Alchemist support and potentially running on older OpenGL/Vulkan drivers with various problems. To ease the experience for those running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Intel has been maintaining a packaged version of their DRM kernel driver as a DKMS module as well as updated Mesa packages...
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      Corsair 2 x 24GB DDR5-7000 Memory Linux Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 April, 2023

    Corsair recently launched their line-up of 2 x 24GB DDR5 memory kits. With recent DDR5 memory prices falling, for as little as $215 USD it's now possible to obtain 48GB of DDR5-7000 RAM. With this being my first time testing a non-binary DDR5 memory kit, here is an initial look at the Corsair CMK48GX5M2B7000C40 compatibility and performance under Linux.
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      Rusticl With RadeonSI Driver Nearing OpenCL Conformance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 April, 2023

    While the upcoming Mesa 23.1 stable release enables RadeonSI build support for Rusticl and is working out overall, the RadeonSI driver with this Rust-written OpenCL driver is nearing the point of officially passing OpenCL conformance...
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      Intel's Game Plan For Getting The Xe Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Upstreamed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 April, 2023

    For more than one year Intel's been working on developing the Xe Linux kernel graphics driver as a modern Direct Rendering Manager driver for Gen12 and newer integrated/discrete graphics. For recent hardware this is to replace the existing i915 kernel driver usage. The Intel open-source developers continue working toward the milestone of being able to submit this driver for mainlining in the upstream Linux kernel...
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      Valve Lands Another Radeon Vulkan Performance Optimization For An "Upcoming Game"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 April, 2023

    Yesterday just hours after writing about a RADV optimization by Valve for an "upcoming game" to nearly match the performance they see under Windows, another performance improvement for an "upcoming game" has been merged...