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It Appears FUTEX2 Will Land For Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Sat, 10/09/2021 - 18:39
Barring any last minute reservations it appears the initial "FUTEX2" work that is of much interest to Linux gamers enjoying Steam Play / Proton will find that kernel functionality in Linux 5.16...

KDE Moves To GitLab-Based CI, Lands More Plasma Wayland Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 10/09/2021 - 18:13
KDE developers remain very busy squashing bugs ahead of the release of Plasma 5.23 that is also known as the Plasma 25th Anniversary Edition...

How disagreement creates unity in open source

opensource.com - Sat, 10/09/2021 - 15:00

It's early 2020, I'm less than a year into my new people management role, and I'm already feeling like a trouble maker. I just finished reviewing a team proposal, and I have concerns about it. My heart races, and my muscles tighten. I don't want to be difficult by challenging ideas as the new person on the team.


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A Big Batch Of AMD Graphics Driver Updates Just Sent Out For Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Sat, 10/09/2021 - 04:50
Building off the earlier DRM-Next staged code from last month that brought initial DisplayPort 2.0 support and other feature work, another feature pull request was submitted today of additional AMD Radeon "AMDGPU" kernel driver changes slated for Linux 5.16...

Wine 6.19 Continues Work On HID Joystick, PE Conversion

Phoronix - Sat, 10/09/2021 - 03:25
Wine 6.19 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of Wine as the developers work towards Wine 7.0 stable in early 2022...

Mesa 21.3 Enables NGG Culling By Default For RDNA2 GPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 10/09/2021 - 01:42
The Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" within Mesa 21.3 is enabling NGG culling by default for Radeon RX 6000 series (RDNA2) GPUs and newer as another performance win...

GCC 12 Enables Auto-Vectorization For -O2 Optimization Level

Phoronix - Fri, 10/08/2021 - 22:06
A month ago was talk of GCC developers enabling the vectorizer at the common "-O2" optimization level and now that change has landed into the GCC 12 development code-base...

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