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      Using KMSCON As The Default VT Console Delayed To Fedora 45

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:17

    For the past few months have been an ambitious proposal to replace FBCON with the user-space KMSCON as the default VT console starting on Fedora 44. Unfortunately, this and a few other features have now been delayed to the Fedora 45 release six months later...
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      AMD DPTCi Driver Posted For Linux To Better Enhance Ryzen Gaming Handhelds

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 hours ago

    A request for comments (RFC) patch series was posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list to introduce the AMD Dynamic Power and Thermal Configuration Interface "DPTCi" driver. With this driver it would provide better upstream Linux kernel support for tuning the power / performance / thermals of modern Ryzen-powered gaming handheld devices. Though don't get too excited right away as the driver was assembled in part by AI that is already causing a bit of a ruckus on the LKML due to lack of disclosure...
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      Google Chrome Moving To A Two-Week Release Cycle

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 hours ago

    Google announced today that beginning later this year they are moving the Chrome web browser from its four week release cycle down to a two week release cadence...
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      Intel Rendering Toolkit & OpenVINO AI GPU Performance On Intel Panther Lake's Xe3 B390

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    Over the past month I have been running a lot of Linux benchmarks on Intel's new Panther Lake using the Core Ultra X7 358H and its Xe3-based Arc B390 Graphics. The Arc B390 on Linux has been quite interesting with its OpenGL and Vulkan graphics performance compared to prior generations of Intel graphics plus the Intel Compute Runtime / OpenCL performance too. In today's article are more benchmarks of the latter in looking at the Intel Rendering Toolkit and OpenVINO AI performance on the Xe3 B390 Panther Lake graphics compared to prior Lunar Lake and Meteor Lake.
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      GNOME Mutter 50.rc Released With Better NVIDIA Performance, SDR-Native & Better HDR

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    There is two weeks to go until the GNOME 50 stable release while out today is the release candidate of Mutter 50. This Mutter 50.rc release brings some exciting last-minute enhancements to this Wayland compositor...
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      Sovereign Tech Fellowship Opens Up To Community Managers, Technical Writers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency announced a new and expanded Sovereign Tech Fellowship program that is now open to community managers and technical writers, beyond just FOSS maintainers from the prior round...
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      Apple Announces "Fusion Architecture" With M5 Pro & M5 Max

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    Apple announced today the new Fusion Architecture with the M5 Pro and M5 Max SoCs that also feature a next-generation GPU...
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      Intel Adapting Linux's LAM In Preparing For ChkTag

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    Last year AMD and Intel as part of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group announced ChkTag for x86 memory tagging across processors to better fight buffer overflows and use-after-free errors. In preparing for ChkTag with future processors, Intel has begun adapting their Linear Address Masking (LAM) support to more nicely jive with it...
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      Intel Preps A Lot Of Xe3 Code For Linux 7.1 Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    Intel yesterday sent out their first "drm-xe-next" pull request to DRM-Next of new Xe kernel graphics driver improvements they have readied for their eventual upstreaming into the Linux 7.1 kernel...