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O3DE Game Engine Quickly Settling Its Linux Support

Phoronix - Thu, 07/29/2021 - 01:11
Less than one month since Open 3D Engine was announced based on Amazon's Lumberyard engine, the Linux support is nearly in a pleasant state...

"Beyond Stupid" Paranoid L1d Cache Flushing Looks Like It Will Try Again For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Wed, 07/28/2021 - 21:30
The work going on for over a year to optionally flush the L1 data cache on context switching is going to try again for the next kernel cycle as an opt-in feature for select tasks. This was the feature rejected last year by Linus Torvalds that went on to "beyond stupid" and other concerns about it when it was trying to be mainlined originally...

Ubuntu 21.04 vs. Windows 10 Trade Blows On The AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX / ASUS ROG Strix G15

Phoronix - Wed, 07/28/2021 - 20:00
While the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX performance is great on Linux once overcoming any laptop support quirks like with the ASUS ROG Strix G15 "AMD Advantage" laptop running into keyboard and WiFi issues on Linux depending upon the kernel version, how does the performance compare to Microsoft Windows 10? Here are some benchmarks of that ROG Strix G15 AMD laptop under Windows 10 as shipped by ASUS against Ubuntu 21.04 when upgraded to the Linux 5.13 stable kernel.

FreeRDP 2.4 Released With Support For Multi-Threaded Decoding

Phoronix - Wed, 07/28/2021 - 18:16
FreeRDP as a leading open-source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol is up to version 2.4 and exciting about this release is multi-threaded decoding support...

Btrfs Picking Up FS-VERITY Support, Other Improvements With Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Wed, 07/28/2021 - 17:49
A lot of new code landed yesterday in the Btrfs file-system's "for-next" Git branch ahead of the Linux 5.15 merge window opening up in about one month's time...

PulseAudio 15 Released With Bluetooth Improvements, Better Hardware Support

Phoronix - Wed, 07/28/2021 - 17:28
While PipeWire continues on a nice upward trajectory for fulfilling the roles of PulseAudio and JACK along with other audio/video stream management needs, PulseAudio isn't letting up yet and on Tuesday saw its big version 15.0 release...

GCC 11.2 Compiler Released With 95+ Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 07/28/2021 - 17:02
GCC 11.2 is now available as the latest stable version of the GNU Compiler Collection...

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