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Radeon Linux Driver Seeing "MALL" Feature For Big Navi

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 08:41
The AMDGPU open-source Linux kernel graphics driver continues seeing work on next-generation GPU support around the forthcoming "Big Navi" GPUs...

A Quick Look At Ubuntu 20.04 LTS vs. 20.10 With The Core i9 10900K

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 06:13
With Ubuntu 20.10 due for release this week I have begun testing near-final Ubuntu 20.10 builds on many more systems in the lab. Larger than our normal distribution/OS comparisons, here is the culmination of running hundreds of benchmarks (366 tests to be exact) under both Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with all available updates and then again on the Ubuntu 20.10 development state while testing on Intel Comet Lake.

NIR-To-TGSI Support Added To Mesa 20.3

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 03:17
Mesa 20.3 has merged a long work-in-progress patch series providing support for going from the modern NIR intermediate representation to TGSI as the conventional Gallium3D IR...

NetBSD 9.1 Released With Parallelized Disk Encryption, Better ZFS, X11 Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 02:35
Not only is there a new OpenBSD release this week but the NetBSD crew also issued a big update in the form of NetBSD 9.1...

The Document Foundation Is Looking To Finish ODF 1.3 Support In LibreOffice

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 00:32
The ODF 1.3 Open Document Format specification was approved by the OASIS Committee at the start of the year and now as we approach the end of the year The Document Foundation is hoping to see ODF 1.3 support completed soon for this leading open-source office suite...

System76 Launches The Thelio Mega With Threadripper + Four GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 23:00
The System76 Thelio Major with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3900 series is already a beast, but now this Linux PC vendor has managed to outdo themselves once again with the Thelio Mega...

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