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KDE Squashes Many "Annoying" Bugs As It Works To Improve The Desktop's Reliability.

Phoronix - Sat, 11/27/2021 - 18:12
KDE developers are trying to ensure the reliability of their desktop environment and thus they have recently begun a renewed effort on bug fixing. There is also talk of starting a KDE initiative focused on "15 minute bugs" for "embarrassing" issues that can be easily found within minutes. In any event, this week saw a lot of bug fixing in the KDE world...

Linux 5.16 Merges Fix For One Of The Intel Alder Lake Issues

Phoronix - Sat, 11/27/2021 - 06:12
Merged this Friday afternoon into the Linux 5.16 development kernel is fixing a performance issue affecting some Intel Alder Lake motherboards...

Intel Compute-Runtime Updated With DG2/Alchemist Support

Phoronix - Sat, 11/27/2021 - 00:56
Intel's open-source engineers today released the Compute-Runtime 21.47.21710 as their latest update to this open-source compute stack for Linux systems enabling their graphics processors to enjoy performant OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support...

Getting Experimental Vulkan Within QEMU VMs Using Linux 5.16+ Paired With Mesa's Venus

Phoronix - Sat, 11/27/2021 - 00:28
When running on the very latest Linux 5.16 Git kernel paired with recent Mesa and various experimental components to the virtualization stack, it is possible getting at least basic Vulkan acceleration working within QEMU guest virtual machines that in turn is accelerated by the host...

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