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Mesa 21.2.3 Released As A Small Update To This Graphics Driver Stack

Phoronix - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 07:27
Succeeding Mesa 21.2.2 from earlier this month that was a much delayed and in turn very large release, Mesa 21.2.3 is out today and it's on the quieter side...

"pkill_on_warn" Proposed For Killing Linux Processes That Cause A Kernel Warning

Phoronix - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 03:32
A new kernel option was proposed today called "pkill_on_warn" that would kill all threads in a process if that process provoked a kernel warning...

Libcamera Maturing Well As Open-Source Camera Stack

Phoronix - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 02:30
Libcamera as an open-source camera stack that has been coming together over the past few years has been maturing quite well, broadening its supported hardware and feature set, and more in filling a void in the Linux camera ecosystem...

Windows 11 WSL2 Performance Is Quite Competitive Against Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Ubuntu 21.10

Phoronix - Wed, 09/29/2021 - 21:18
Recently I carried out some updated Windows 11 benchmarks against Linux to look at how this forthcoming Microsoft operating system release is competing with Ubuntu. In this article is a fresh look at the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) performance on the near-final Windows 11 against Ubuntu Linux.

AMD Aims For 30x Energy Efficiency Improvement For AI Training + HPC By 2025

Phoronix - Wed, 09/29/2021 - 21:09
AMD this morning announced a goal of increasing the energy efficiency of EPYC processors running AI training and high performance workloads by 30x... Within the next four years...

LibreOffice Lands Initial Code For Qt6 Toolkit Support

Phoronix - Wed, 09/29/2021 - 20:54
Merged this morning into the LibreOffice code-base is the initial Qt6 VCL plug-in...

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