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The Vulkan API Is Now Five Years Old And Enjoying Phenomenal Success

Phoronix - Wed, 02/17/2021 - 01:33
Today marks five years since the announcement of Vulkan 1.0. Over the past five years we have seen incredible adoption of this high performance graphics API across multiple platforms, open-source Vulkan drivers that are kept up to date well with the latest spec revisions, exciting new extensions, and the spec continues to receive new extensions and revisions on an almost bi-weekly basis...

Intel Looking To Finally Upstream Linux Driver For Their Gaussian & Neural Accelerator

Phoronix - Wed, 02/17/2021 - 01:00
Found with mobile Intel CPUs across Tiger Lake, Ice Lake, and even Cannon Lake has been the Intel GNA accelerator. This Gaussian and Neural Accelerator is also found with Intel Gemini Lake processors and various development kits. The Intel GNA has been backed by an out-of-tree Linux driver while now the company is finally working to upstream their GNA support in the Linux kernel...

Linux 5.12 Bringing DTPM So You Don't Burn Yourself On Hot Devices

Phoronix - Wed, 02/17/2021 - 00:00
Linux 5.12 pull requests continue coming in for the newly-opened merge window that in turn should see its stable release in late April...

KDE Plasma 5.21 Released With Better Wayland Support, Desktop Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 22:20
The KDE community today released Plasma 5.21 as the latest major release of this open-source desktop...

Qt 6.1 Alpha Released

Phoronix - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 21:37
Just two months after the release of Qt 6.0, given the quicker release cycle this year, Qt 6.1 Alpha is already available that follows the feature freeze that began earlier this month...

Slackware 15.0 On Approach With An Early Alpha Build Available

Phoronix - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 20:33
While Slackware carries the badge of being the oldest still maintained Linux distribution, it doesn't see new releases too often and doesn't carry the popularity it once did. In any case, Slackware 15.0 is being prepared as the next release...

Linux 5.12 Crypto Brings AES-NI Acceleration For CTS, Faster XTS With Retpolines

Phoronix - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 20:22
On Monday the crypto subsystem updates were sent in to the Linux 5.12 kernel by crypto maintainer Herbert Xu...

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