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An Early Look At The GCC 12 Compiler Performance On AMD Zen 3

Phoronix - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 18:07
GCC 12 isn't seeing its stable release until around March~April as usual, but with feature development slowly wrapping up as approaching the next stage of development next month to focus on fixes, recently I wrapped up some preliminary benchmarks for how GCC 12.0 is currently performing against GCC 11.2 on an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (Zen 3) system...

DXVK-Native 1.9.2a Released For Direct3D-Over-Vulkan With Native Games

Phoronix - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 17:16
Valve continues embracing DXVK-Native for allowing more of their older games to target Vulkan by using this Direct3D-to-Vulkan translation layer for native games. DXVK-Native 1.9.2a is out with the latest fixes and improvements...

3 tips for printing with Linux

opensource.com - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 15:00

I have a confession to make. This may be an unpopular opinion. I actually enjoy reading documents on a piece of paper as opposed to digitally. When I want to try a new recipe, I print it out to follow it so I don't have to continually swipe my mobile device to keep up with the steps. I store all my favorite recipes in sheet protectors in a binder. I also like to print out coloring pages or activity sheets for my kids. There are a ton of options online or we create our own!


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How to Install SVN on RHEL-Based Linux Distributions

Tecmint - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 14:46
The post How to Install SVN on RHEL-Based Linux Distributions first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Written in C programming language, Apache Subversion, colloquially abbreviated as SVN, is a free and open-source versioning control system that keeps track of historical versions of files and directories. Simply put, SVN is simply

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Intel Graphics Driver's New Parallel Submission uAPI Landing For Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 14:00
Intel's "parallel submission" user-space API for their i915 kernel graphics driver has been queued into DRM-Next today ahead of the Linux 5.16 kernel cycle...

Steam Continues Improving Its Shader Pre-Caching Support, Other Beta Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 12:00
A new Steam client beta is out with a few Linux enhancements worth noting...

SiFive Has A New RISC-V Core To Improve Performance By 50%, Outperform Cortex-A78

Phoronix - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 06:42
SiFive just shared word that at today's Linley Conference they teased their Performance P550 successor that will "set a new standard for the highest efficiency RISC-V processor available."..

Trying Out Ubuntu's New Flutter+Curtin-Powered Desktop Installer Was Disappointing

Phoronix - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 03:15
An effort going on for a while at Canonical has been to develop a new desktop installer for Ubuntu. With the recent Ubuntu 21.10 release they are still using their classic Ubiquity installer by default but have published a new preview build of Ubuntu 21.10 with their new desktop installer option. Here is a look at Ubuntu's forthcoming new installer...

Chrome 96 Beta Begins Preparing For Chrome 100, Adds Priority Hints Feature

Phoronix - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 02:37
Following this week's release of Chrome 95, Google has now promoted Chrome 96 to beta status...

XWayland 21.1.3 Nears With Support For NVIDIA 495 Driver's GBM

Phoronix - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 01:57
The release candidate to XWayland 21.1.3 is out today with just a few changes but made significant by support for the NVIDIA 495 series driver GBM code path...

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