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https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.8-Preview
SteamOS 3.8 Preview Preps For Steam Machine, KDE Plasma Desktop With Wayland By Default - Phoronix
In addition to last night's Steam client beta with Steam Runtime container support for the client and that SteamRT3 client now a 64-bit build, Valve also...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-MR-Zink-By-Default
Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For OpenGL-On-Vulkan By Default - Phoronix
A CodeWeavers engineer opened a merge request yesterday for Wine to use Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver by default
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-5.1-Released
Blender 5.1 Released With Raycast Nodes, AMD GPU Ray-Tracing By Default - Phoronix
Blender 5.1 is out today with many exciting improvements for this leading open-source 3D modeling software
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-OS-KMSCON
GNOME OS Switches To KMSCON Enabled By Default - Phoronix
GNOME OS as the Linux-based distribution that serves as the leading-edge, reference platform of GNOME desktop development is now using KMSCON by default.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-FRED-Enabling-Linux-7.1
Intel FRED Appears Ready To Enable By Default With Linux 7.1 - Phoronix
Last week I ran benchmarks quantify the performance benefit to Intel FRED for Flexible Return and Event Delivery initially found with the new Core Ultra Series...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-GCN-1.1-APUs-Default
AMDGPU Driver Ready To Be The Default For Aging Kaveri / Kabini / Mullins APUs - Phoronix
With Linux 6.19 AMD GCN 1.1 and GCN 1.1 dGPUs now default to the AMDGPU driver rather than the legacy Radeon Linux driver
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-FRED-By-Default-Patch
Patch Posted To Enable Intel FRED By Default On Linux - Phoronix
Following today's article exploring the performance benefits of Intel Flexible Return and Event Delivery 'FRED' with Panther Lake and also pointing out the...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-20.0-Iris-Gallium3D-Target
Intel Now Aiming For Gallium3D OpenGL Default For Mesa 20.0 - Phoronix
While we had been eager for Intel's goal of defaulting to their new Gallium3D OpenGL Linux driver by EOY2019, it looks like that is going to swing by one...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-LTO-Proposed
Arch Linux Looking To Employ LTO By Default, Possibly Raise x86-64 Requirements - Phoronix
Arch Linux developers are considering some default enhancements to their Linux distribution that would increase the out-of-the-box performance.
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