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      AmpereOne Core PMU Perf Events Added For Linux 6.6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 September, 2023

    Merged overnight were the perf subsystem tooling updates for the Linux 6.6 merge window that is set to close later on Sunday...
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      LoongArch With Linux 6.6 Adds KGDB/KDB, KFence, KASAN, LBT Binary Translation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 September, 2023

    The LoongArch CPU port is seeing a number of new kernel features enabled with Linux 6.6 as well as seeing some new hardware features wired up such as for Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) and allowing LSX/LASX instruction use in kernel-space...
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      KSMBD Declared Stable - No Longer "Experimental" - In Linux 6.6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 September, 2023

    Back in 2021 Samsung engineers posted KSMBD as an in-kernel SMB3 server alternative to the likes of the user-space Samba server. KSMBD merged into Linux 5.15 as an experimental SMB server while after two years of fixes and other improvements has now dropped its "experimental" marking...
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      DXVK-NVAPI 0.6.4 Implements HDR Support Via DXVK

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 September, 2023

    A new version of DXVK-NVAPI is now available, the NVIDIA public NVAPI interface implemented atop DXVK for use by Direct3D games running on Valve's Steam Play (Proton). DXVK-NVAPI allows for NVIDIA DLSS for Vulkan / D3D11 / D3D12, NVIDIA Reflex support, PhysX, and other NVIDIA features to be enabled for popular Windows games running on Linux...
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      GNOME 45.rc Brings GDM Wayland Multi-Seat, More libadwaita Adoption

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 September, 2023

    The GNOME 45 release candidate is now available for testing ahead of the desktop's stable release later this month...
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      KDE Lands More Power Management Tuning, Behaves Better On Btrfs File-Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 September, 2023

    KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his newest weekly development summary as the developers work toward releasing Plasma 6.0 in February...
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      FreeBSD 14 Beta Released - Initial WiFi 6 Support, Updated LLVM Toolchain, Fwget Utility

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 September, 2023

    FreeBSD 14 Beta 1 is available this weekend for helping to test out this major BSD operating system update that should debut as stable before the end of October...
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      Vulkan 1.3.264 Released With Microsoft Layered Driver Extension

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 September, 2023

    Earlier this year I wrote about Microsoft working on their first Vulkan extension and today it finally debuted within the Vulkan 1.3.264 spec update...
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      Linux 6.5+ Bringing Some Performance/Efficiency Improvements For The AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme / ASUS ROG Ally

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 September, 2023

    With the recently released Linux 6.5 kernel bringing AMD P-State EPP by default for modern Ryzen systems rather than the generic ACPI CPUFreq driver, running Linux 6.5 (or newer) in various workloads can lead to improved performance and/or power efficiency. Curious about the impact on the mobile side, I recently carried out some benchmarks of the ASUS ROG Ally gaming handheld with AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme SoC from Linux 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, and 6.6 Git kernels.