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Red Hat Is Hiring Even More Graphics Engineers

Phoronix - Fri, 05/21/2021 - 00:14
Red Hat is already one of the leading employers of open-source graphics driver developers and other engineers working on the upstream Linux desktop graphics stack while they are adding even more...

PostgreSQL 14 Beta Released With More Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 23:44
PostgreSQL developers continue working on juicing the maximum performance possible out of this popular open-source SQL database server...

LLVM Clang 12 Compiler Is Performing Very Well For AMD Ryzen 9 5950X / Zen 3

Phoronix - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 21:50
Earlier this week I posted some benchmarks looking at the compiler performance of GCC 11 vs. LLVM Clang 12 on the Intel Core i9 11900K "Rocket Lake" processor while in this article the same tests and same software are being carried out on an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X "Zen 3" desktop. With these AMD Linux tests the Clang 12 compiler not only yielded the fastest binaries at -O2 but carried through in the more optimized configurations as well.

CS:GO Trust Factor Fixed For Linux Gamers With Mesa Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 20:31
A few weeks ago we wrote about Mesa 21.x drivers with OpenGL threading causing issues for the "Trust Factor" within the popular game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Thanks to possible intervention by Gabe Newell, this trust factor issue seems now resolved for allowing these Linux gamers with open-source graphics drivers to play on the more competitive CS:GO servers...

New Patches Posted For Linux Runtime Verification

Phoronix - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 19:12
A new patch series has been posted implementing Runtime Verification (RV) for the Linux kernel...

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