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Inkscape 1.1 Released With Command Palette Feature, More Export Options

Phoronix - Tue, 05/25/2021 - 06:48
Following the earlier release candidate, Inkscape 1.1 is now officially available as the latest feature update to this leading open-source vector graphics application...

OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 RC Released With LLVM 12 Toolchain, Linux 5.12 Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 05/25/2021 - 04:53
Following February's release of OpenMandriva Lx 4.2, the release candidate to Lx 4.3 is now available for testing...

Intel P-State Driver Begins Preparing For Hybrid Processors (Alder Lake)

Phoronix - Tue, 05/25/2021 - 01:27
Intel's Linux preparations for Alder Lake -- and more broadly the concept of hybrid x86_64 CPUs with a mix of large Core and small Atom cores -- continues with the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver seeing new work to prepare for Intel's hybrid era...

Red Hat Scores A Huge DM Optimization For Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Tue, 05/25/2021 - 00:14
Red Hat engineers have scored an impressive performance optimization to the DeviceMapper (DM) code that is now queued up for merging with the Linux 5.14 cycle...

Intel AMX Support Continues Being Prepped For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 05/24/2021 - 19:07
Intel engineers have been publishing open-source/Linux enablement patches around Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for nearly one year now. While Intel Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" with AMX support is expected around the end of this year, one of the key pieces yet to land is the Linux kernel support...

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