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Cairo Graphics Sees Major Improvements To Its SVG Backend

Phoronix - Sun, 05/30/2021 - 19:25
The Cairo 2D vector graphics library used by the likes of GTK, Mozilla, WebKit, and many other open-source projects is seeing some big strides made on its SVG back-end...

NVIDIA vs. AMD Linux Gaming Performance For End Of May 2021 Drivers

Phoronix - Sun, 05/30/2021 - 18:29
With May quickly drawing to a close, here are some fresh Linux gaming benchmark figures for the latest AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards on their respective latest Linux graphics drivers while looking at the performance across a variety of OpenGL and Vulkan games/workloads...

After UMN Debacle, Patatt Aims To Provide Cryptographic Attestation For Patches

Phoronix - Sun, 05/30/2021 - 17:53
Linux kernel developer Konstantin Ryabitsev has been working on Patatt as a cryptographic-based patch attestation system. While started a while ago, there is renewed interest in such patch attestation following the University of Minnesota "hypocrite commit" debacle...

16 efficient breakfasts of open source technologists from around the world

opensource.com - Sun, 05/30/2021 - 15:00

Breakfast …. It's the most important meal of the day, or so they say. But who wants to spend time on a big meal when you could be sleeping instead? (And if your breakfast is too big, you might feel the need to go back to sleep.)

Still, busy developers, sysadmins, and other IT pros need some fuel to start their day. So, we asked some of our contributors to tell us how they feed their hunger without "eating" into their rest or work time. Here's what they had to say.


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GCC Rust Front-End Continues Advancing With Plans To Eventually Upstream

Phoronix - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 21:38
While the official/reference Rust compiler implementation is LLVM-based, there continues to be the independent effort working on a GCC Rust front-end as an alternative full implementation of the Rust programming language...

Linux 5.14 To Feature Enhanced Support For MikroTik 10G/25G NIC

Phoronix - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 20:00
The Linux 5.14 kernel this summer will feature improved support for a new MikroTik 10G/25G NIC...

RenderDoc 1.14 Released With Support For Vulkan's Shader Printf

Phoronix - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 17:47
RenderDoc 1.14 was released on Friday as the newest feature update to this open-source, cross-platform / cross-API graphics debugger...

KDE Plasma 5.22 Faster For NVIDIA + Wayland, More Crash Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 17:27
KDE developers are wrapping up May with more performance optimizations and bug fixes in tow...

AMDGPU To Expose More Information About GPU Throttling Status

Phoronix - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 17:00
The AMD Radeon "AMDGPU" kernel driver for Linux is poised to report more graphics throttling status information to user-space...

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