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NVIDIA R565 vs. Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0 Git AMD / Intel Graphics For Linux Gaming

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 December, 2024

It's been a few months since running any fresh Linux graphics driver comparison benchmarks. But given the imminent availability of the first Intel Arc Battlemage graphics cards, I have been carrying out some fresh Linux GPU driver testing. Given the recently-stabilized NVIDIA R565 Linux driver series and then also the newest upstream code in Linux 6.13 Git and Mesa 25.0-devel for the AMD Radeon and Intel Arc Graphics hardware on their open-source drivers, here is a fresh look at where Intel / AMD / NVIDIA mid-range graphics stand today on Ubuntu Linux with the leading-edge drivers.

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Rust-Based, Memory-Safe PNG Decoders "Vastly Outperform" C-Based PNG Libraries

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 December, 2024

Video and image encoders/decoders written in the Rust programming language for its memory safety guarantees is often viewed as one of the compelling areas for the programming language to better protect against malformed/malicious content especially within web browsers. Not only are Rust-based PNG image decoders proving to be more secure than C-based decoders, but the performance of the Rust solutions can be even faster...

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The 2024 LLVM Developers’ Meeting Videos Now Online

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 December, 2024

For those wishing to kick off the new week with some interesting technical videos and are into compiler tech, the video recordings from the 2024 LLVM Developers' Meeting are now online...

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ASUS TUF GAMING X670E PLUS Seeing Linux Sensors Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 December, 2024

For those with the ASUS TUF GAMING X670E PLUS as a ~$230 USD AM5 motherboard for Ryzen 7000/9000 series processors, this desktop motherboard is seeing support tacked onto the asus-ec-sensors hardware monitoring driver so you can enjoy working sensor readings under Linux...

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Glibc 2.41 Adds C23's sinpi / cospi / tanpi Functions

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 December, 2024

Ahead of the GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 release due out around early February, more C23 features are being finished up. The latest crossing the finish line is support for C23's sinpi, cospi, and tanpi trigonometric functions...

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openSUSE Touts Improved Multi-GPU Switching Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 December, 2024

Te openSUSE project shared today that there is enhanced multi-GPU switching support to enjoy now with openSUSE Linux...

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Raspberry Pi 500 Launches Along With Raspberry Pi Monitor

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 December, 2024

Launched four years ago was the Raspberry Pi 400 as the Raspberry Pi 4 adapted for a keyboard form factor. Launching today is the Raspberry Pi 500 for upgrading that keyboard computer using the Raspberry Pi 5 internals. An official Raspberry Pi Monitor was also released...

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Linux 6.13-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 December, 2024

Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 6.13-rc2 with an initial serving of bug/regression fixes following last week's Linux 6.13-rc1 release that capped off the feature-packed Linux 6.13 merge window...

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Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing On Gzip & Zstd

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 December, 2024

The Linux kernel EFI Zboot code for carrying the Linux kernel image for EFI systems in compressed form is doing away with its "compression library museum" of offering Gzip, LZ4, LZMA, LZO, XZ, and Zstd compression options to instead just focus on Gzip and Zstd compression support...