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      Intel Linux Driver Lands Workaround To Sharply Speedup Cyberpunk 2077 Shader Compilation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 July, 2023

    A new per-application workaround/optimization to the open-source Intel "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver has sharply reduced the time required for compiling Cyberpunk 2077 game shaders for this popular title running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play...
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      GnuCOBOL 3.2 Released After 2+ Years In Development

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 July, 2023

    For those fond of the COBOL programming language and continuing to make use of it in new development efforts, GnuCOBOL 3.2 was released on Friday as the latest feature update for this 21+ year old free software effort around being an open-source COBOL implementation...
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      Linux 6.5-rc4 Fixes Support For Reporting Negative Temperatures On AMD Industrial CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 July, 2023

    Going back to May I wrote about AMD's "k10temp" Linux temperature driver being updated to handle negative temperature readings and now finally merged on Friday as a fix ahead of Linux 6.5-rc4 is a change to that open-source driver for properly displaying negative temperatures...
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      KDE Plasma 6 Making Progress On Sound Themes, Lower Cursor Latency On Wayland

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 July, 2023

    With most developers having recovered from the recent Akademy KDE developer conference, Plasma 6 is back to seeing a lot of new development activity for what will be the next major open-source desktop release likely debuting in early 2024...
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      LLVM 17.0-rc1 Released With Nearly 38k Commits

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 July, 2023

    The first release candidate of LLVM 17 is now available for testing as what will be the next half-year update to this innovative open-source compiler stack...
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      AMD Readies "New Stuff" For Linux 6.6 Graphics Driver, AMDGPU DC For RISC-V

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 July, 2023

    Sent out today was a batch of "new stuff" for the AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel graphics drivers for queuing in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.6 merge window opening in about one month...
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      Vulkan 1.3.260 Released With AMDX_shader_enqueue, KHR_maintenance5

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 July, 2023

    Vulkan 1.3.260 is out today with a handful of specification clarifications/fixes as well as two new extensions...
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      Running The AMD EPYC 9754 "Bergamo" CPUs With A 320W cTDP To Enhance Power Efficiency

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 July, 2023

    The new AMD EPYC Bergamo and Genoa-X processors have been very fascinating in the lab from the performance angle and the many different features and knobs provided by these new high-end server processors focused on dense cloud and energy-efficient deployments and HPC/AI, respectively. With Bergamo the flagship AMD EPYC 9754 provides 128 cores with SMT and the Zen 4C cores still boast AVX-512. Another nifty aspect on this high core count CPU catering to cloud service providers is the adjustable TDP from 320 to Watts. Prior Phoronix benchmarks have looked at the default 360 Watt performance and the 400W at the high-end with power determinism mode while today's article is looking at the efficiency gains made possible by pulling back to a 320W cTDP.
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      OpenZFS 2.2-rc3 Released With Linux 6.4 Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 July, 2023

    It appears the OpenZFS 2.2 file-system driver for Linux and FreeBSD systems will see its release very soon while out today is the third release candidate...