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Radeon Vulkan "RADV" Driver Saw Many Optimizations This Week For Mesa 21.0

Phoronix - Sat, 01/16/2021 - 23:47
Prior to Mesa 21.0 being branched this week in preparations for the quarterly stable Mesa3D release, a number of open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver optimizations were merged...

AMD + Older Intel CPUs To See Much Faster AES-NI XTS Crypto Performance On Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Sat, 01/16/2021 - 22:41
AMD processors along with older Intel processors will enjoy much faster AES-NI XTS crypto performance with the Linux 5.12 kernel this spring...

Better Fujitsu A64FX Support Arrives For GCC, LLVM Clang Compilers

Phoronix - Sat, 01/16/2021 - 20:42
The high performance Fujitsu A64FX ARM processor now has the possibility of performing even better if relying upon the upstream open-source compilers from GCC and LLVM...

Linux Patches Updated For Light-Based Networking With pureLiFi Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 01/16/2021 - 19:29
Li-Fi that uses LED lighting for wireless communication between devices is a step closer to reality on Linux systems with leading commercial start-up pureLiFi continuing to move closer to upstreaming the driver supporting their hardware that supports this technology...

KDE Will Reflow Text In Konsole On Window Resizing, Kirigami Icons Now Use Less RAM

Phoronix - Sat, 01/16/2021 - 19:12
KDE developers have remained very busy in the new year working to improve their open-source desktop stack...

4 DevOps books to read this year

opensource.com - Sat, 01/16/2021 - 16:01

We have just entered 2021, and DevOps will become much more relevant. It is smack dab in the spotlight given that the world is experiencing a pandemic and businesses are fighting to stay digitally relevant and competitive.


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How to use KDE's productivity suite, Kontact

opensource.com - Sat, 01/16/2021 - 16:00

In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 6 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021.


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Linus Torvalds Decides To Land NVIDIA RTX 30 "Ampere" Support In Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Sat, 01/16/2021 - 06:35
While new feature code is normally not allowed in past the end of the merge window for a given Linux kernel release cycle, Linus Torvalds has decided to merge the newly-published open-source driver code for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 "Ampere" graphics cards for the Linux 5.11 kernel that will debut as stable in February...

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