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      Steam On Linux Marketshare Percentage Dipped In February

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 March, 2023

    Valve has just published the Steam Survey results for the month prior and it points to Steam on Linux as a percentage dropping as well as a similar pullback in the Steam Deck hardware usage...
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      Linux 6.3 Adds Thunderbolt/USB4 DisplayPort Bandwidth Allocation Mode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March, 2023

    Earlier this week Greg Kroah-Hartman submitted the USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates for the ongoing Linux 6.3 kernel merge window...
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      Intel Compute Runtime 22.53.25242.13 Released With OpenCL & Level Zero Enhancements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March, 2023

    Following a three month lull, last week Intel got back to releasing Compute-Runtime and IGC compiler updates. They have been working to shift to a monthly release cadence while during this transition period they needed extra time as it also rolled out some compiler/runtime interface changes. Now back into their swing of things, for kicking off the new month they have the Compute Runtime 22.53.25242.13 release...
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      Godot 4.0 Stable Released As Major Step Forward For Open-Source Game Engines

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March, 2023

    The Godot engine developers are starting off March with a bang... The much anticipated Godot 4.0 engine that has been in development for years has been released as stable!..
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      Intel Updates Alder Lake P Scheduler Model For LLVM/Clang

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March, 2023

    An updated scheduler model for Intel Alder Lake P processors has been merged into the LLVM compiler after finding some differences compared to Intel's documentation/guidance...
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      Linux's VGEM Kernel Driver Being Rewritten In Rust

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March, 2023

    In addition to the in-development Apple M1/M2 DRM kernel graphics/display driver being written in Rust, there is now a second graphics-related kernel driver seeing early work in Rust. The existing VGEM driver is being rewritten in the Rust programming language...
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      Microsoft Increasing Linux Security On Hyper-V With VTL/VSM Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March, 2023

    Microsoft engineers continue to work heavily on enhancing the Linux support for Hyper-V considering that in the Azure public cloud at last report was more than 50% of their VMs running Linux. Microsoft has continued implementing more Hyper-V features within the Linux kernel and their latest is working on Virtual Trust Level (VTL) integration as part of Virtual Secure Mode (VSM) handling...
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      xf86-video-modesetting TearFree Gets Fixed Up For A/V De-Synchronization Issue

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March, 2023

    A few months back the generic xf86-video-modesetting X.Org driver added TearFree page-flipping support. The option eliminates screen tearing without the use of a compositor and was seen as a win by many for this generic DDX driver that works atop the modern DRM/KMS kernel drivers. But a rather annoying issue was discovered that could lead to audio/video synchronization problems was uncovered and is now fixed in the latest driver code...
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      LoongArch With Linux 6.3 Enhances Security With KASLR

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March, 2023

    Loongson engineers continue working to improve their MIPS64-derived, RISC-V-inspired LoongArch CPU architecture code. With the in-development Linux 6.3 kernel are yet more improvements, including now supporting Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR) for better security...