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      KDE Plasma Wayland Fixes "Severe Screen Distortion" For Some Multi-GPU Systems

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

    KDE developers remain quite busy working on the Plasma 6.0 desktop development as well as making other enhancements and fixes to their open-source desktop stack...
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      Solus Linux 4.4 Released - Powered By Linux 6.3, Latest Budgie Desktop

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

    While Solus is still working toward its new approach based on Serpent OS and other significant fundamental changes to the Linux distribution, shipping today is Solus 4.4 as the latest incremental update to this Linux distro popular with enthusiasts...
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      Wine 8.12 Released With Additional Wayland Enablement

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

    Wine 8.12 is available today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...
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      Meta Releases Intermediate Graphics Library "IGL" Built Atop Vulkan, OpenGL

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

    Meta has published the Intermediate Graphics Library (IGL) as a new cross-platform library to provide a single low-level interface that works atop native graphics APIs from OpenGL and Vulkan to Apple's Metal...
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      Linux 6.5 Brings New "cachestat" Syscall For Querying Page Cache Stats Of A File

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

    A new system call found in Linux 6.5 is "cachestat" that allows user-space to query page cache statistics for a file in order to make more informed decisions...
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      Fedora 39 Aims For A Colored Bash Prompt

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

    In addition to Fedora 39 aiming to use the Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation, shipping the latest and greatest open-source compiler toolchain components, enhance Linux gaming compatibility, eliminate Flathub filtering, and dozens of other improvements, there are also plans for a more mundane change: a colored bash prompt...
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      Intel Xeon Max Performance Delivers A Powerful Combination With AMX + HBM2e

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

    The Intel Xeon Max 9480 flagship Sapphire Rapids CPU with HBM2e memory tops out at 56 cores / 112 threads, so how can that compete with the latest AMD EPYC processors hitting 96 cores for Genoa (or 120 cores with the forthcoming Bergamo)? Besides the on-package HBM2e that is unique to the Xeon Max family, the other ace that Xeon Max holds with the rest of the Sapphire Rapids line-up is support for the Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). In today's benchmarks of the Intel Xeon Max performance is precisely showing the impact of how HBM2e and AMX in order to compete -- and outperform -- AMD's EPYC 9554 and 9654 processors in AI workloads when effectively leveraging AMX and the onboard HBM2e memory.
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      Ubuntu's NVIDIA "Enterprise Ready" Driver Package Now Enables Open GPU Kernel Driver

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

    Ubuntu's NVIDIA Unified Device Architecture (UDA) driver package intended for GPU compute acceleration has enabled the NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel driver support in their packages since the end of last year. Now with the new NVIDIA Enterprise Ready Driver "ERD" Ubuntu package hitting Ubuntu LTS users, they are also supporting the NVIDIA open GPU kernel driver option there...
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      Unaccepted Memory Merged For Linux 6.5, Helping AMD SEV-SNP + Intel TDX

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

    As was anticipated, UEFI Unaccepted Memory support was successfully merged for Linux 6.5 to support this standard that's important with the likes of Intel Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) and AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Page (SEV-SNP) backed virtual machines...