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Intel Posts The "Last Part" To Their AMX Bring-Up For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 21:07
While for many years we have been accustomed to seeing Intel land their new hardware feature enablement work in the Linux kernel and related components well ahead of products shipping, occasionally there are lapses due to various internal and external timings. The launch of Sapphire Rapids is quickly approaching and one of the major additions is Advanced Matrix Extensions with its Linux support still being in the works...

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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