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Fedora 35 Proposal Would Allow More Packages To Be Built Using LLVM Clang

Phoronix - Sat, 04/24/2021 - 01:19
Right now Fedora Linux predominantly uses GCC as the default system compiler except for cases where the upstream project only supports LLVM/Clang. But moving forward packagers working on Fedora could decide to switch to using LLVM Clang for building a given package where it is worthwhile...

Blender's "Cycles X" Showing Nice Performance But Dropping OpenCL Support

Phoronix - Sat, 04/24/2021 - 00:50
Blender's Cycles engine is celebrating its tenth birthday today and in marking the occasion, the Blender project has announced the ongoing work on "Cycles X" as what started as a research project in preparing this engine for the next ten years. It's a big step forward for Cycles but with Cycles X the OpenCL rendering kernels are being removed...

Ubuntu 21.04 Enjoys Better Performance But Still No Match To Intel's Clear Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 04/23/2021 - 22:02
As we have been showing in a few articles already, Ubuntu 21.04 is in good shape performance-wise and generally coming ahead of Ubuntu 20.10 and 20.04 LTS. We've seen that on a number of systems in the lab, but how does this better performance out of Ubuntu 21.04 compare to say Intel's Clear Linux? Here are some benchmarks.

Mesa Git Now Allows Building The Open-Source AMD RADV Vulkan Driver On Windows

Phoronix - Fri, 04/23/2021 - 20:44
You may recall last year was work that got started on being able to compile the open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver on Windows. Well, this Friday the merge request finally was honored for Mesa 21.2...

T2 SDE 21.4 Released With This Linux Distribution Supporting 15 CPU Architectures

Phoronix - Fri, 04/23/2021 - 18:56
The T2 Linux distribution, or "System Development Environment" (SDE) as it refers to itself, is up to version 21.4 and with it is now supporting fifteen different CPU architectures for this barebones Linux-based operating system...

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