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OpenBLAS 0.3.14 Released With Performance Improvements For AMD Ryzen, POWER10

Phoronix - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 12:00
OpenBLAS 0.3.14 is out today as the newest version of this open-source BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) library that continues to work on maximizing the performance for x86_64 and other architectures...

Audacity 3.0 Digital Audio Editor Released With New File Format

Phoronix - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 03:16
Audacity 3.0 is out today as a big update to this popular, longtime open-source digital audio editor...

XWayland 21.1 Standalone Released To Offer Better X11 Client On Wayland Experience

Phoronix - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 02:00
With no one willing to step up and manage the X.Org Server 1.21 release and see it through for maintenance, Red Hat engineers who often managed those xorg-server releases are now moving ahead with standalone XWayland releases with that code pulled out of doing a full X.Org Server release and instead isolated to the XWayland bits for handling of X11 clients under Wayland. Today marks the inaugural release with XWayland 21.1.0...

Dbus-Broker 28 Released

Phoronix - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 23:17
With still no sign of BUS1 on the horizon for the mainline kernel or any other successor to BUS1 or KDBUS for in-kernel IPC, Dbus-Broker remains the best bet currently in 2021 for a more performant D-Bus implementation while retaining compatibility with the D-Bus reference implementation...

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Linux Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 21:00
At the start of March AMD announced the Radeon RX 6700 XT as their new RDNA2 graphics card starting out at $479 USD. Tomorrow the RX 6700 XT is going on sale while today marks the embargo lift on reviews. We have been testing the Radeon RX 6700 XT over the past two weeks and have up our initial Linux support experience and gaming benchmark results to share.

RADV Lands Another Navi Optimization In Mesa 21.1 To Help With MSAA Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 20:17
The developers working on the RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for Mesa are relentless in their quest for delivering optimal performance. Hitting Mesa 21.1 today were another set of patches for enhancing the MSAA anti-aliasing performance for GFX10 (Navi 1x / Navi 2x) graphics cards...

Steam Adds Support For The Single-File Mesa Shader Cache

Phoronix - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 17:47
It was less than one month ago that Valve developers added a new "single file" cache option for Mesa as an alternative to its existing multi-file cache. Valve now with their latest Steam for Linux beta is supporting this new single-file cache for faster performance...

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