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      OpenZFS 2.2-rc2 Brings Linux 6.5 Compatibility Fixes, Other Bugs Addressed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 July, 2023

    Last month saw the first release candidate of OpenZFS 2.2 that introduces Linux container support, BLAKE3 checksums, and block cloning capabilities. Out this weekend is a second release candidate as OpenZFS 2.2 nears release...
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      Plasma 6 Can Now Play A Sound When Plugging In USB Devices

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 July, 2023

    Following the annual Akademy KDE developer conference, more Plasma 6.0 changes have been landing for this major desktop environment release that will likely come in H1'2024...
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      Wine 8.13 Released With Three Dozen Bugs Fixed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 July, 2023

    In addition to Proton 8.0-3 being released today for Steam Play, Wine 8.13 is out today as the latest bi-weekly release of this software for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...
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      Proton 8.0-3 Released With More Windows Games Running On Linux, Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 July, 2023

    Proton 8.0-3 is rolling out on Steam that powers Steam Play to enjoy the latest Windows games on Linux. Proton 8.0-3 brings many fixes and gets more Windows games now running gracefully on Linux desktop systems as well as the Steam Deck...
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      GPU VA Manager To Land In Linux 6.6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 July, 2023

    The DRM subsystem is slated to pickup a GPU Virtual Address "VA" Manager with the Linux 6.6 kernel that is motivated by work around Vulkan sparse memory binding requirements...
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      Apple M2 On Linux Performance Against AMD Zen 4 Mobile SoCs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 July, 2023

    The most common request from my recent ROG Ally benchmarking with the Ryzen Z1 SoC and also the Ryzen 7 7840U laptop SoC testing has been wanting to know how these Zen 4 mobile processors compete with Apple's M2 on Linux. Well, for those curious, here are some initial performance figures of the Apple M2 in a MacBook Air running Asahi Linux up against the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme and Ryzen 7 7840U SoCs on Linux.
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      Vulkan 1.3.258 Released With New Host Image Copy Extension, NVIDIA DGC Compute

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 July, 2023

    Vulkan 1.3.258 was published today as the newest revision to this high performance graphics and compute API. There's many fixes with the last Vulkan spec update having been in early July but making this release more notable are two new extensions...
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      Mesa 23.1.4 Released With Intel Optimization Backported, New ANV Optimization Merged

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 July, 2023

    First up the belated Mesa 23.1.4 is now available as the latest stable point release in the Mesa 23.1 series...
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      AMD CPU Microcode Will Be Getting Larger With Future Processors

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 July, 2023

    Future AMD CPUs will be having larger microcode patches and thus the Linux kernel is now being adapted to better handle that increased microcode payload...