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      Windows 11 vs. Linux Gaming Performance On The ASUS ROG Ally

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

    Many readers have been curious about the performance of Linux gaming on the ASUS ROG Ally gaming handheld that out-of-the-box runs Microsoft Windows 11 Home... Well, the wait is over with the first benchmarks today of Windows 11 against Ubuntu 23.04 Linux on the ROG Ally. Beyond looking at the out-of-the-box performance, the results under Windows 11 with ASUS' "Turbo Mode" is also included plus some modifications to allow Linux to be more competitive to Windows 11 for games.
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      Wasmer 4.0 WebAssembly Implementation Brings WASIX Support

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

    Wasmer is an open-source WebAssembly implementation that is focused on running sandboxed applications everywhere thanks to the power of WASM while being as performant as traditional native applications. Today marks the availability of Wasmer 4.0 as another step forward for this project...
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      AlmaLinux Figuring Out Path Forward Following RHEL Source Code Policy Change

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

    AlmaLinux, the popular community-oriented distribution that was established following Red Hat's decision to discontinue development on CentOS (non-Stream) and is backed by AMD and other organizations, is trying to chart its path forward following Red Hat's latest curve ball...
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      KDE's KWin Begins Plotting Path To Vulkan Support

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

    Going back a few years there has been experimental development around a Vulkan back-end for KDE's KWin compositor while now a road-map is being formalized for actually bringing Vulkan support to fruition...
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      Linux 6.4 Squeezes In Crash Fix For New AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Laptops

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

    Sent in today for the mainline Linux kernel -- days ahead of the expected Linux 6.4 stable release -- is a crash fix for just-released AMD Ryzen 7040 series laptops...
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      Sound Quirks For The ASUS ROG Ally Queued For Linux 6.5

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

    Ahead of the Linux 6.5 merge window expected to open up next week, a patch providing sound quirks for the ASUS ROG Ally's CS35l41 audio is now queued in the sound subsystem's for-next branch...
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      AMD Hardware-Accelerated Virtualized IOMMU Patches Posted For Linux

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

    Following the recent AMD IOMMU v2 page table work and other IOMMU improvements as part of AMD's effort to further enhance the Linux virtualization support on EPYC server platforms, the latest patches out of AMD as of yesterday are for wokring on hardware-accelerated virtualized IOMMU (AMD HW-vIOMMU)...
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      PoCL 4.0 OpenCL Implementation Released With Intel oneAPI Level Zero Driver

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

    PoCL 4.0 is out as the latest major update to this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that started out as an OpenCL-on-CPU effort while with time has expanded its sights beyond just OpenCL on processors to providing OpenCL on other accelerators/devices via leveraging different LLVM target back-ends. With PoCL 4.0, there is also now an Intel oneAPI Level Zero driver for using this OpenCL stack on Intel graphics processors...
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      Go 1.21 Enabling PGO For Faster Performance, Tuned Garbage Collector

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

    The Go 1.21 release candidate is out today and it's interesting on the performance front plus a few language additions like min / max / clear functions as well as further enhancing its standard library...