Linux, Graphics, and Games
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Meta announced 'IGL', a high-performance cross-platform graphics library
Available under the MIT license, Meta (as in Facebook) have released IGL (Intermediate Graphics Library) for developers. This was officially announced on The Khronos Group blog (who oversee various open standards), written by Meta developers.
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Proton Experimental brings fixes for Gears 5, Overwatch 2, Phasmophobia
Valve released a fresh upgrade to Proton Experimental to get more games like Gears 5, Overwatch 2 and Phasmophobia working better on Linux and Steam Deck.
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What AMD's Latest Linux Patches Reveal About Upcoming Zen 5 CPUs
If you read that headline and thought, "what the heck, Zen 4 just came out," I have bad news for you, friend. The Ryzen 7000 series processors for desktop and their Socket AM5 platform came out last September—over nine months ago. It'll still be a long while yet before we see the release of any Zen 5 processors, but it's well past time for us to start looking ahead toward those chips.
Today's news concerns AMD's next-generation processors and their support in Linux. Patches for the open-source operating system add new hardware IDs for AMD Family 26 processors. What's Family 26? Well, we don't actually know officially, but Family 25 encompasses all Zen 3 and Zen 4 processors. Zen 3 was a major step forward architecturally from Zen 2, and likewise, Zen 5 is supposed to be major architectural redesign from Zen 4.