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Clear Linux Squeezed Out More Open-Source Performance In 2020

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 01:37
Here is a look at how the performance of Intel's Clear Linux compares for the end of 2020 against the end of 2019 and 2018 on the same hardware platform for looking at the Intel performance optimizations made to this open-source Linux distribution. This was another year of Intel engineers making more headway on out-of-the-box Linux performance even though they have been less vocal about the project over the past year.

AMD Publishes More Zen 3 Compiler Support Patches For LLVM

Phoronix - Mon, 01/11/2021 - 23:21
AMD is back on track publishing more Zen 3 compiler support patches for the LLVM compiler stack...

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Adds Sparse Memory Support - Will Help Some D3D12 Games

Phoronix - Mon, 01/11/2021 - 22:05
Adding to the growing list of Mesa 21.0 features is spare memory support for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver...

Blackberry Is Bringing Vulkan To QNX

Phoronix - Mon, 01/11/2021 - 20:41
The newest platform working on Vulkan API support is... Blackberry's QNX...

Mesa 21.0 RadeonSI Will Run Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Faster

Phoronix - Mon, 01/11/2021 - 19:14
Mesa 21.0 is bringing some overdue improvements for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver with the game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive...

Improve your productivity with this lightweight Linux desktop

opensource.com - Mon, 01/11/2021 - 16:02

In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 1 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021.


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