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Linux 5.13 To Add Perf Support For Intel Alder Lake

Phoronix - Sat, 04/24/2021 - 20:37
Queued this week into perf/core ahead of the imminent Linux 5.13 merge window is perf subsystem bring-up for Intel's next-gen Alder Lake processors...

Sony Proposes A New Soft Watchdog For Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 04/24/2021 - 19:11
Sony Linux engineer Peter Enderborg has proposed a soft watchdog for the Linux kernel to carry out pre-defined tasks in certain situations but not being like hardware watchdogs that would reboot the system if a problem crops up...

KDE Sees Another Wayland Session Crash Fix, SDDM To No Longer Require Root

Phoronix - Sat, 04/24/2021 - 17:56
KDE developers continue polishing up their Wayland support and making other improvements to their desktop stack...

Making computers more accessible and sustainable with Linux

opensource.com - Sat, 04/24/2021 - 15:00

There are many reasons to choose Linux for your desktop operating system. In Why everyone should choose Linux, Opensource.com's Seth Kenlon highlighted many of the best reasons to select Linux and provided lots of ways for people to get started with the operating system.


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AMD Sends In ASPM Support, FreeSync Fixes For Linux 5.13 Cycle

Phoronix - Sat, 04/24/2021 - 12:00
On top of the prior AMDGPU feature pulls for Linux 5.13 that brought Aldebaran support, FreeSync HDMI, and other improvements, another round of updates were sent in on Friday...

Wine 6.7 Continues Work On Driver Plug & Play, Adds ES6 JavaScript Mode

Phoronix - Sat, 04/24/2021 - 08:12
Wine 6.7 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release for running Windows games and applications on Linux...

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...

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