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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...

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.

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