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Firefox 81 Released With Security Fixes, PDF Viewer Enhancements

Phoronix - Tue, 09/22/2020 - 21:37
Firefox 81 is out this morning as the newest monthly update to the Mozilla web browser...

AMD Announces Ryzen/Athlon 3000 C-Series For Chromebooks

Phoronix - Tue, 09/22/2020 - 21:16
AMD today announced the Ryzen 3000 and Athlon 3000 C-Series processors for use in Google Chromebooks from multiple vendors...

ADRIConf Remains The Primary GUI Control Panel For Managing Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers

Phoronix - Tue, 09/22/2020 - 20:37
While the Linux kernel graphics drivers and user-space OpenGL/Vulkan drivers expose a lot of options via sysfs on the kernel side and various environment variables and other tunables in user-space, when it comes to graphical control panels to manage these open-source graphics drivers on Linux there are several fragmented different options. For Mesa drivers, ADRIConf remains the leading option...

TURNIP Vulkan Driver Up And Running On Qualcomm's KGSL

Phoronix - Tue, 09/22/2020 - 19:16
The TURNIP driver that is associated with the Freedreno driver effort for providing an open-source Vulkan driver for Qualcomm Adreno graphics hardware can now run atop Qualcomm's KGSL kernel driver...

Krita 4.4 Beta Released With Multi-Threading For Fill Layers

Phoronix - Tue, 09/22/2020 - 18:50
The beta of the forthcoming Krita 4.4 is now available, which continues on as easily the leading open-source digital painting programs...

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