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Mali G72 Now Supported By Open-Source Panfrost Gallium3D Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 09/30/2020 - 01:14
The open-source Panfrost graphics driver, which is now backed/supported by Arm after starting as a reverse-engineering effort, has picked up support for the Mali G72 GPU...

Initial Fedora 32 vs. Fedora 33 Beta Benchmarks Point To Slightly Higher Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 23:00
In addition to Fedora Workstation 33 switching to Btrfs, there are a number of key components updated in Fedora 33 as well as finally enabling link-time optimizations (LTO) for package builds that make this next Fedora Linux installment quite interesting from a performance perspective. Here are some initial benchmarks of Fedora Workstation 32 against the Fedora Workstation 33 Beta on an Intel Core i9 10900K system.

Fedora 33 Beta Released With Big Changes From LTO To Btrfs

Phoronix - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 21:40
The beta of Fedora 33 is available this morning ahead of the official release expected at the end of October for this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution...

Intel's oneAPI Is Coming To AMD Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 21:00
While yesterday brought the release of Intel's oneAPI 1.0 specification, the interesting news today is that oneAPI support is coming to AMD Radeon graphics cards...

NetBSD Has Some Wayland Support But X11 Is Far More Mature

Phoronix - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 19:46
Following the news yesterday of NetBSD changing its default X11 window manager after two decades with TWM to now using CTWM by default, some wondered why they don't jump on the Wayland bandwagon...

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