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Firefox 87 Released With Privacy Improvements But Backs Out AVIF

Phoronix - Tue, 03/23/2021 - 23:21
Mozilla Firefox 87.0 is out today as the newest release of this open-source, cross-platform web browser...

V3DV Pipeline Caching Work Leads To Greater Raspberry Pi Vulkan Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 03/23/2021 - 23:09
Consulting firm Igalia continues working on the open-source Broadcom V3DV Mesa Vulkan driver that is most notably used by the Raspberry Pi 4 and later SBCs. Since reaching Vulkan conformance they have continued working on further enhancing the performance of this driver...

Fedora 34 Beta Released With PipeWire In Action, GNOME 40 Desktop

Phoronix - Tue, 03/23/2021 - 22:50
Fedora 34 Beta is out today as the march is on towards this latest installment of this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution...

AMD Sends Out Latest Patches For HMM-Based SVM Memory Manager

Phoronix - Tue, 03/23/2021 - 21:11
Published back in January was the initial work on a HMM-based SVM memory manager for the open-source Radeon compute stack. A second version of that work is now available as it continues working towards the mainline kernel...

Linux Kernel's Preliminary Rust Code Seeing 64-bit POWER Support

Phoronix - Tue, 03/23/2021 - 18:54
Excitement is building around initial support for the Rust language within the Linux kernel that arrived in Linux-Next and is now seeing more developer interest...

Ubuntu Figuring Out Whether To FSCK Its File-Systems At Boot

Phoronix - Tue, 03/23/2021 - 18:13
They are a bit late in doing so, but Ubuntu developers are working to figure out if it makes sense to run FSCK "file-system check" at boot time. It turns out Ubuntu Server and other Ubuntu installations making use of their Curtin installation component haven't enabled the functionality for FSCK at boot but now they are (re)visiting the matter...

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