Kernel: No Russians, Performance Gains, and VMware Workstation to Switch to KVM
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Linus Torvalds kicked the Russians out of Linux, now they're creating a sovereign Linux community in Russia — Ministry of Digital Development steps in
The Russian Ministry of Digital Development's decision may look like a knee-jerk reaction, as it has come so quickly in the wake of the maintainer expulsion, and specific details and implementation plans are thin on the ground. However, some think the new community of Linux developers in Russia could take cues from the recently established alliance of RISC-V developers in the country.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Valve Engineer's AMD Linux RADV Vulkan driver fix boosted an FSR2 demo sample app by 228% on RDNA 2 GPUs
A Linux performance issue with an AMD FSR 2 sample on RDNA 2 GPUs has been fixed.
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WCCF Tech ☛ Valve Linux Driver Team Fixes RADV Driver Performance With FSR 2 Through MESA 24.3 Release, Up To 228% Uplift
The Mesa 24.3 has finally fixed the major issue with the RADV(Radeon Vulkan) driver, which led to inferior performance compared to AMD's proprietary AMDVLK/AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan driver. This performance gap existed for nearly 2 years when the FSR 2 was turned on in games. It has been successfully fixed by Valve's Linux driver team by just tweaking a few lines of code.
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Web Pro News ☛ VMware Workstation to Switch to KVM on Linux
Mware Workstation is switching from proprietary virtualization to using KVM, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine capabilities built into Linux.
First spotted by Phoronix, the news comes courtesy of a post to the Linux kernel mailing list by Broadcom engineer Zack Rusin.
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Russia is Looking to Build its Own Linux Community After Expulsion Of Maintainers
The recent happenings with the Linux kernel have been something of a geopolitical whirlpool, where many people have been either protesting or supporting the removal of more than 10 Russian developers from their roles as maintainers.
Kernel maintainer James Bottomley confirmed not long ago that people related to any organization/entity on the U.S. OFAC SDN lists would be subject to restrictions and that they could not be included in the MAINTAINERS file.
Now, in an interesting turn of events, there has been a response from Russia itself, with an unnamed representative of the Ministry of Digital Development making some rather intriguing claims.