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      Ubuntu 23.10 Aiming To Ship A GIMP 3.0 Snapshot

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 July, 2023

    While GIMP 3.0 stable likely not set to debut in 2023 but rather at least release candidates are expected, Canonical is looking at shipping a GIMP 3.0 snapshot in Ubuntu 23.10 in hopes of GIMP 3.0 stable by the time of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or at least a near final v3.0 state...
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      AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme Proves Very Versatile For Power/Performance - Benchmarks Against The Ryzen 7 7840U

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 July, 2023

    With the ASUS ROG Ally being the first device powered by AMD's new Z1 Extreme SoC with Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA3 graphics, it's been very interesting to see its performance advantages over the Steam Deck. But beyond its potential for use in gaming handhelds, it's quite fascinating to see how powerful the Z1 Extreme actually is when removing power restrictions on this SoC. In this article is a wide range of CPU benchmarks putting the Z1 Extreme up against the new Ryzen 7 7840U laptop SoC as well as prior generation Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U for reference. When adjusting the ACPI Platform Profile configuration, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme proves to be very robust from a low-power SoC delivering good battery performance up through pulling 50+ Watts while outperforming the 7840U.
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      Ubuntu 23.10 Planning To Ship With The Linux 6.5 Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 July, 2023

    This shouldn't be particularly surprising for those closely tracking release cycles and the Linux kernel release cadence, but now it's official: Ubuntu 23.10 is aiming to ship with the Linux 6.5 kernel...
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      Google Posts Experimental Linux Code For "Device Memory TCP" - Network To/From Accelerator RAM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 July, 2023

    Google engineers have published early code around "Device Memory TCP" (a.k.a. Devmem TCP) as a proposal for transferring data to/from device memory efficiently by avoiding the need to copy the data to a host memory buffer...
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      GRUB 2.12 Release Candidate Delivers Two Years Worth Of Bootloader Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 July, 2023

    GRUB 2.12 had been talked about for a mid-2022 release while one year later we are finally greeted by the first release candidate for this next major open-source bootloader release...
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      SUSE Announces Its Forking RHEL, To Maintain A RHEL-Compatible Distro

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 July, 2023

    Yesterday Oracle published an interesting announcement and doubled down on their intentions of keeping Oracle Linux compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux following Red Hat's controversial announcement last month. Today is another very interesting response to Red Hat's recent shift, this time from the SUSE Linux folks...
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      Fwupd 1.9.3 Adds Linux Firmware Updating Support For A Few New Devices

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 July, 2023

    Richard Hughes of Red Hat and the lead developer behind the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) has released Fwupd 1.9.3 as the newest feature update to this open-source solution for carrying out system and peripheral firmware updates on Linux...
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      Radeon RADV Driver's Emulated Ray-Tracing Achieves 100% Pass Rate

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

    Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" supports native hardware ray-tracing with RDNA2 and RDNA3 graphics cards where it's matured quite nicely over the past number of months. With the upcoming Mesa 23.2, RADV RT support is enabled by default for all supported GPUs. RADV also has emulated ray-tracing support for older generations of AMD GPUs and as of today it's finally hit a 100% pass rate...
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      NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 To RTX 4060 GPU Compute & Renderer Performance On Linux

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

    Earlier this month I provided some initial GeForce RTX 4060 vs. Radeon RX 7600 Linux gaming benchmarks for this new sub-$300 graphics card. For those considering this latest Ada Lovelace graphics card for 3D rendering or compute purposes, here are some benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 4060 on that front by looking at the generational performance of the x060 series graphics cards from the RTX 4060 back to the GTX 1060.