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EndeavourOS Issues First 2021 Release For Easy-To-Use Arch-Based Linux Distro

Phoronix - Sat, 02/06/2021 - 16:33
For those that have been meaning to try out an Arch Linux based distribution that is easy-to-use and not time consuming with sensible defaults, EndeavourOS is out with its first new spin since 2021 -- and in fact their first fresh ISO release since September...

LLVM Lands Support For OpenMP Offloading To AMD Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 02/06/2021 - 13:00
While the AMDGPU back-end has been part of mainline LLVM for years, not until now has it supported an OpenMP toolchain for offloading to Radeon GPUs...

GNU Network Utilities Sees First Major Release In 9 Years (inetutils 2.0)

Phoronix - Sat, 02/06/2021 - 03:57
The GNU Network Utilities (inetutils) has seen its first major release in nine years or even the first release at all in six years since the prior point release. With GNU inetutils 2.0 are several updates to common programs like ping and ifconfig...

Zink Can Now Run On Lavapipe But You Really Want To Avoid It

Phoronix - Sat, 02/06/2021 - 02:49
In addition to this week seeing Zink now running on NVIDIA's proprietary driver for supporting this Gallium3D-based OpenGL over Vulkan implementation, it can now run on top of Lavapipe as the CPU-based Vulkan implementation. But for end-users that is really something you would want to avoid...

After A Bumpy Cycle, AMD Performance Will Shine Brighter On Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Fri, 02/05/2021 - 23:48
For those following the saga of the AMD frequency invariance regression on Linux 5.11 since the Christmas investigative benchmarking looking at the performance regressions, everything now looks like it will be buttoned up in time for the Linux 5.11 stable release. As noted yesterday, there was a curve ball this week in that the patch proposed by SUSE's Giovanni Gherdovich in January to address the frequency invariance regression was turned down by the Linux power management maintainer and instead he (Rafael Wysocki of Intel) proposed an alternative patch that instead modified the CPUFreq driver. Given it's getting late into the cycle, it's been a mad rush of re-conducting benchmarks on this new kernel patch and now it looks like that solution will be sent in the coming days for Linux 5.11.

Fedora 34 Will See HarfBuzz-Enabled FreeType As The Latest For This Huge Feature Release

Phoronix - Fri, 02/05/2021 - 20:44
The plan for Fedora 34 to improve font rendering by enabling HarfBuzz in FreeType was approved this week by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee...

Intel On Their 11th Gen H35 Processors: "Fastest Single-Threaded Laptop Performance"

Phoronix - Fri, 02/05/2021 - 18:58
Intel sent out a news release on Thursday proclaiming their new 11th Gen H35 "Tiger Lake H" processors deliver the "fastest single-threaded laptop performance" thanks to the Core i7 11375H delivering up to 5GHz turbo frequencies...

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