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The 2020 US Thanksgiving / Black Friday Phoronix Premium Special

Phoronix - Sun, 11/22/2020 - 22:12
In marking the US Thanksgiving week, the Black Friday / Christmas shopping season, and just another week grinding away during the COVID-19 pandemic while seeing depressed ad rates on top of ad-block users hurting our ability to continue producing new and exciting Linux/open-source content, here is our Phoronix Premium special for the holidays to show your support while getting discounted access to enjoy the site ad-free, multi-page articles on a single page, and other benefits...

Debian Has Been Hosting A MiniDebConf Devoted To Linux/Open-Source Gaming

Phoronix - Sun, 11/22/2020 - 21:00
For those looking for some technical open-source/Linux video content to enjoy this weekend, the Debian crew has been hosting a virtual MiniDebConf devoted to gaming and all of the material is online...

Linux Sees A Slew Of Point Releases Due To That Nasty IBM POWER9 Vulnerability

Phoronix - Sun, 11/22/2020 - 20:40
Greg Kroah-Hartman has issued new point releases for all of the Linux kernel series he is still maintaining as a result of that IBM POWER9 processor vulnerability plus other random fixes that have accumulated...

GIMP Turns 25 Years Old As Leading Open-Source Photoshop Alternative

Phoronix - Sun, 11/22/2020 - 19:30
It's been twenty-five years to the day since GIMP was started as an open-source image editor and in turn sparked the creation of the GTK tool-kit...

F2FS With Linux 5.11 To Support Casefolding With Encryption

Phoronix - Sun, 11/22/2020 - 13:04
For over one year the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) has supported case-folding for optional case-insensitive file/folder support. The past number of years F2FS has also supported FSCRYPT-based file encryption. But now as we roll into 2021, support is finally seemingly ready for mainline in supporting casefolding with encryption enabled...

Phoronix Test Suite 10.2 M1 Brings Improvements For Apple Silicon M1, Altra + More

Phoronix - Sun, 11/22/2020 - 06:33
Out this weekend is Phoronix Test Suite 10.2-Harstad Milestone 1 as the first development snapshot of this next quarterly feature update to our cross-platform, open-source benchmarking software...

Intel C for Metal Compiler 1.0.20 Released

Phoronix - Sat, 11/21/2020 - 22:45
Within Intel's vast open-source software ecosystem and much of the attention being on oneAPI as their preferred programming model for developers these days and there being multiple different open-source Intel graphics compiler back-ends, one that is often forgotten about is the Intel C for Metal Compiler that on Friday saw a new release...

AMDGPU Linux Driver Seeing A Lot Of Power Saving Optimization Work

Phoronix - Sat, 11/21/2020 - 19:49
In addition to squaring away the Radeon RX 6000 series RDNA 2 support and promoting the Arcturus support for the new GPU found within the AMD MI100 accelerator, this month AMD open-source Linux driver developers have been devoting a fair amount of work towards power optimizations...

KDE Has Another Week Worth Of Wayland Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 11/21/2020 - 19:18
Ahead of the holidays the KDE development work is as busy as ever from Plasma 5.21 to its large desktop application set...

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