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Manjaro 21.1 Released With Better Btrfs Support, GNOME 40 Update

Phoronix - Wed, 08/18/2021 - 01:35
Manjaro 21.1 is now available as the latest stable version of this Arch Linux based operating system...

Microsoft Releases Updated Version Of Its CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 23:30
Microsoft has released an updated version of its CBL-Mariner Linux distribution as their platform within the company that is being used for various cloud and edge computing use-cases among other purposes...

AMD RDNA2 Vulkan: RADV vs. RADV+NGGC vs. AMDVLK vs. PRO Driver Benchmarks

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 21:00
Following last week's Radeon RX 6600 XT launch, here are benchmarks of the Radeon RX 6600 XT / RX 6700 XT / RX 6800 XT graphics cards across all of the Vulkan driver options available to Linux users.

VA-API AV1 Decode Lands In Mesa 21.3 Gallium3D

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 20:00
The change led by AMD engineers for adding AV1 VA-API acceleration support to the Gallium3D "VA" state tracker front-end has landed in Mesa 21.3...

Mesa 21.3 LLVMpipe Enables OpenGL 4.5 Compatibility Profile Support

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 18:07
The LLVMpipe driver providing a generic OpenGL implementation that's CPU-accelerated for Mesa - and more performant than alternatives thanks to LLVM - can now support OpenGL 4.5 compatibility profile contexts...

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