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NVIDIA RTX 30 Series vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance For April 2021

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 23:34
With recently receiving the rest of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 "Ampere" line-up we had no access to previously for testing, the past few weeks were busy with testing/re-testing these new graphics cards as well as prior GeForce RTX 20 series hardware and relevant AMD Radeon graphics cards for offering a current look at the 1440p and 4K Linux gaming performance.

Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor Jumps From v0.14.1 To v15.0 To Signify Its Maturity, Stabilizing

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 20:19
The Rust-written Cloud-Hypervisor project led by open-source Intel engineers as a VMM designed for cloud workloads has broke well past the "1.0" milestone. Following a series of 0.x releases, Cloud-Hypervisor 15 was released this week...

KVM With Linux 5.13 Has AMD SEV Improvements, Intel SGX For Guests

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 18:22
Along with this week's release of QEMU 6.0, exciting on the Linux virtualization front are the KVM changes that are ready to go with the 5.13 kernel...

AMD GPU Driver Developers Pursuing New HDR Display Work For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 17:56
One of the areas of Linux desktop display support that isn't as well supported compared to Windows is high dynamic range (HDR) displays. There have been various vendors and developers over the years working towards Linux desktop HDR improvements but still it hasn't been a fast-advancing area in the open-source ecosystem. At least now AMD Radeon graphics driver developers do appear to be working on HDR improvements...

Clang CFI Support Upstreamed For Linux 5.13 - But Only On ARM64 For Now

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 17:26
Now that Clang LTO support landed in Linux 5.12 and cleared the blocker on CFI support, that LLVM Clang control-flow integrity (CFI) capability is now upstream for Linux 5.13...

GhostBSD Shifts Base To FreeBSD 13.0, Improvements For OpenZFS 2.0

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 17:06
It was just earlier this month that FreeBSD 13.0 released while already GhostBSD has issued a new release of this desktop-oriented operating system re-based against the new FreeBSD 13.0 base...

Manuel Sabban - Linux Journal

Google News - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 15:00
Manuel Sabban  Linux Journal

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