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      Radeon Software For Linux 23.20 Brings RX 7700 XT / RX 7800 XT Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 September, 2023

    As covered in the launch-day Radeon RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT Linux review/testing, there is already upstream open-source driver support for these new RDNA3 graphics cards in recent versions of the Linux kernel and Mesa. It's a pleasant open-source out-of-the-box experience with the Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards with the possible exception of just needing to grab the recent AMDGPU firmware. But for those running older, enterprise Linux distribution releases, AMD has now released the Radeon Software for Linux 23.20 driver package to also enable the RX 7700/7800 XT support on those enterprise operating systems...
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      Ubuntu 23.10 Adding Experimental TPM-Backed Full Disk Encryption

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 September, 2023

    As an experimental feature for next month's Ubuntu 23.10 release, Canonical is introducing initial support for TPM-based full disk encryption to make use of your system's Trusted Platform Module (TPM). The downside though is this extra security relies on Snaps, including for the kernel and GRUB bootloader...
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      AMD UIF 1.2 Released With Initial Radeon GPU Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 September, 2023

    AMD today published version 1.2 of their Unified Inference Frontend (UIF) that is for supporting deep learning inference across AMD CPUs, GPUs, as well as Versal adaptive SoCs and FPGAs. AMD UIF aims to accelerate AI inference across all AMD compute platforms with machine learning frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow. With UIF 1.2 adds initial support for Radeon GPUs...
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      KDE Plasma 6.0 Planned For Release In Early February

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 September, 2023

    As part of a monthly status update concerning Plasma 6 development, KDE developer Nate Graham confirmed that the team is planning to release Plasma 6.0 in February of 2024...
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      Intel Arc Graphics Enjoy Another Open-Source Vulkan Driver Performance Optimization

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 September, 2023

    Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver has landed a set of 15 patches that can further help the Linux gaming performance for those using DG2/Alchemist Arc Graphics...
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      OpenSSL 3.2 Alpha Released With Client-Side QUIC, Raw Public Key, SM4-XTS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 September, 2023

    The first alpha release of the OpenSSL 3.2 library is now available for testing. With OpenSSL 3.2 there are a number of new features, most notably the client-side work around QUIC support...
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      TURNIP Vulkan Driver Lands Initial Support For Adreno A730/A740 GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 September, 2023

    Going along with the MSM DRM driver support for the Qualcomm Adreno 700 series, the open-source TURNIP Vulkan driver this week merged its initial support for the Adreno 700 series...
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      XPad Driver Extends Gaming Controller Support With Linux 6.6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 September, 2023

    In addition to the HID updates bringing rumble for Google's Stadia controller and other gaming peripheral improvements, the input subsystem updates were sent out this week for Linux 6.6 that bring more enhancements for Linux gamers. In particular, the common XPad driver saw some additions for this next kernel version...
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      Linus Torvalds Comments On Bcachefs Prospects For Linux 6.6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 September, 2023

    A few days ago Bcachefs was proposed for inclusion to Linux 6.6 after it failed to be pulled for the prior Linux 6.5 kernel cycle. Since then we've been waiting to see what action Linus Torvalds would take with including Bcachefs... He's finally commented on it today but remains to be seen if it will land for this kernel release...