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      Mesa TURNIP Vulkan Driver Adds VirtIO GPU Support

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

    Another change that has now landed in Mesa 23.3 is enabling support in the TURNIP Vulkan driver for running atop the VirtIO GPU kernel driver in virtualized scenarios...
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      Linux Decides To Disable RNG On All AMD fTPMs

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

    As a follow-up to the first-on-Phoronix article last month that highlighted Linus Torvalds' frustrated views on the AMD fTPM random number generator continuing to cause problems for users even with updated firmware/BIOS, as of today the Linux kernel has gone ahead and blanket disabled RNG use for all current AMD fTPMs...
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      How The Radeon Professional Graphics Performance Changed Over 13 Years

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

    AMD last week launched the Radeon PRO W7500 and Radeon PRO W7600 professional graphics cards built on RDNA3. Due to AMD's unique position with their open-source Linux graphics driver stack, I decided to see how these new Radeon professional GPUs compare to FirePro hardware from 13 years ago for the raw performance and power efficiency.
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      Linux Containers Forks LXD Project As "Incus"

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

    Following Canonical deciding to pull in control of the LXD project and LXD maintainership being limited to Canonical employees, the Linux Containers project has announced the forking of LXD as Incus...
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      Google May Re-Consider JPEG-XL Image Support Within Chrome

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

    Last year Google decided to deprecate JPEG-XL image support within their Chrome/Chromium web browser. They expressed not enough interest and other factors for so quickly removing JPEG-XL support from their browser. They went ahead and removed the support for this next-gen JPEG standard while now a half-year later they may be having second thoughts...
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      Window Maker 0.96 Released For Window Manager Inspired By NeXTSTEP UI

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

    For those that have fond memories of the NeXTSTEP days and in particular its graphical user interface during the pre-Apple times, Window Maker 0.96 was released this weekend for that X11 window manager inspired by the NeXTSTEP GUI...
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      Sourceware Looking To Expand Services, Diversify Partners

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

    Sourceware.org that provides the open-source hosting for projects like GCC, Cygwin, and more had long been sponsored by Red Hat and a rather opaque organization. Earlier this year SourceWare.org became part of the Software Freedom Conservancy. In addition to now calling the SFC home, they are planning other changes ahead to expand their hosting services, diversifying hardware and software partners, and other changes...
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      AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 Released With Phoenix APU Support, Performance Tuning

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

    AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 is out this morning as the first update to AMD's official open-source Radeon Vulkan Linux driver since mid-June...
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      Linux 6.6 Will Be Able To Handle Temperature Reporting When Having More Than 32 DIMMs

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

    The Linux kernel's "dimmtemp" driver allows for reporting memory temperatures with capable memory modules and when exposed by the Intel processor's PECI (Platform Environment Control Interface). Currently though the DIMM temperature driver is hard-coded to only allow reporting up to 32 DIMMs while a change queued for Linux 6.6 will extend that limit...