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OpenGL vs. Vulkan Performance For Portal 2 With Radeon Linux Graphics  Phoronix

With Valve's Portal 2 having added a Vulkan renderer by way of DXVK for converting Direct3D calls to Vulkan, here are some initial benchmarks with several different AMD Radeon graphics cards for seeing the performance of this nearly decade old game on Linux with the existing OpenGL rendering path compared to that of the new Vulkan rendering option.

When it comes to original, open-source computer games the 0 A.D. real-time strategy game is among the best. The game has been developed as open-source for more than a decade for this ancient warfare themed game. The prior 0 A.D. Alpha 23 release happened back in May 2018 while now it's finally been succeeded by 0 A.D. Alpha 24...

An exciting new capability with perf in Linux 5.12 is the ability to collect instruction latency metrics as part of the performance reports, but relies on hardware capabilities for now only found in next-generation Intel Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" processors...

Linux 5.12 Adds Instruction Latency Reporting To Perf  Phoronix

The Mesa release train once again fell off the tracks for Mesa 21.0 but on Friday the fifth release candidate managed to ship...

3 Ways to install GIMP graphics editor on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

The issue of having a beginner/easy-to-use focused desktop Linux distribution but not installing new security updates by default without user intervention is that for many users they fall behind in applying often important security fixes...

Linux Mint Finds Many Of Its Users Are Running Behind On Security Updates  Phoronix

IN SEARCH OF GOOD MAriJUANA AND COCIANE STOCKS - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Not Just Perseverance, Linux Is On Mars Too With NASA's Recent Success  India Times

Earlier this week saw the release of Plasma 5.21 while KDE developers have been busy working on fixes/improvements to that for the first point release as well as moving forward in other areas like integrating Git support into Kate...

The sound subsystem changes were submitted on Friday by maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE for the in-development Linux 5.12 kernel...

In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. Here's how switching from Windows to Linux can be made seamless with WINE.

Do you have an application that only runs on Windows? Is that one application the one and only thing holding you back from switching to Linux? If so, you'll be happy to know about WINE, an open source project that has all but reinvented key Windows libraries so that applications compiled for Windows can run on Linux.

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Perseverance Rover Marks Linux's Journey From Earth To Mars  Fossbytes

Kodi 19.0 "Matrix" is now available for this popular open-source, cross-platform HTPC solution...

Best Youtube-dl GUI Applications  It's FOSS

Linux Is Now on Mars, Thanks to NASA's Perseverance Rover  PCMag

Linux Is Now on Mars, Thanks to NASA's Perseverance Rover  PCMag.com

The Linux Foundation adds 7 projects to combat racial injustice  ARNnet