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Mesa Lands Work Around Async glFlush - Should Help Workstation Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 06/20/2021 - 18:19
While vendors are increasingly just focused on Vulkan (and Direct3D under Windows), there still is plenty of OpenGL software out there especially in the workstation space where software vendors are slow to adapt. Well known RadeonSI OpenGL developer Marek Olšák of AMD landed another performance optimization this week that should benefit the likes of SPECviewperf...

KDE Akademy 2021 Video Streams As Developers Discuss Wayland, Frameworks 6, Qt

Phoronix - Sun, 06/20/2021 - 18:02
The virtual KDE Akademy 2021 conference kicked off on Friday and runs through the 25th. This annual summertime event of the KDE desktop community is attended by hundreds but again carried out online due to the pandemic...

8 books open source technologists should read this summer

opensource.com - Sun, 06/20/2021 - 15:00

Welcome to the 2021 Opensource.com summer reading list. This year's list contains eight wonderful book recommendations from members of the Opensource.com community. From classics like Frank Herbert's Dune and a new translation of Beowulf to non-fiction books about the history of tech industry culture, this list has books for readers with different tastes and interests.


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Surface Suspension Protocol Proposed For Wayland

Phoronix - Sun, 06/20/2021 - 12:00
Joshua Ashton who is known for his work on DXVK (formerly D9VK) and related Steam Play / Proton graphics related efforts has submitted a proposal for a Wayland Surface-Suspension protocol...

Debian 10.10 Released With Many Security/Bug Fixes, Updated FWUPD

Phoronix - Sun, 06/20/2021 - 01:26
While Debian 11 is coming up soon and its full freeze is under one month away, Debian 10.10 is out this weekend as the latest routine point release...

GFX1013 Target Added To LLVM 13.0 For RDNA2 APUs

Phoronix - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 21:27
Merged last week to mainline LLVM 13.0 was the new "GFX1013" target for the AMDGPU shader compiler. Well, it landed twice as at first had to be reverted after breaking the build bots / sanitizer testing...

Libzip 1.8 Released With Support For Zstd Compressed ZIP Files

Phoronix - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 19:19
Libzip as the widely-used C library for accessing. creating, and modifying Zip archives is out with a new feature release...

KDE Gets Expandable Tooltips, Larger Clipboard, More Wayland Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 18:00
Even with the warm summer weather and many municipalities loosening pandemic lockdown restrictions, KDE developers remain quite busy this summer with a variety of improvements to this open-source desktop...

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