Notices by Phoronix (phoronix@masto.ai)

Unvanquished 0.55 Released With Big Performance Optimizations For Its Engine

The Unvanquished 0.55 open-source game that was recently teased for its OpenGL 4.6 renderer work is out today with its shiny new release. As it's been more than one and a half years since Unvanquished 0.54, this new beta comes with a load of improvements especially around optimizing its Daemon open-source engine that is long derived from id Tech 3...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Unvanquished-0.55-Released

Intel's New "Xe" Kernel Graphics Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.8

As I wrote about last week that Intel's modern Xe kernel graphics driver was nearing submission for the mainline kernel and today it's indeed been submitted to DRM-Next. The Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is the modern alternative to the long-used i915 DRM kernel driver and is fitted to support Tigerlake graphics and newer -- both integrated graphics hardware as wel…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-Submission-Linux-6.8

System76 Unveils Latest Improvements To Their Thelio Linux Computers

System76 has announced their latest design improvements to their in-house manufactured, Linux-loaded Thelio desktop computers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Thelio-October-Updates