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New Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches Aim For Better vGPU Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 09/09/2020 - 12:00
Proposed last year were a set of patches aiming to improve the Intel virtual GPU "vGPU" performance in para-virtualized cases by having optimizations around the shared memory region between the guest and Intel GVTg code. With optimizing the workload PV submission and PPGTT PV updates, the glxgears performance could improve by 30~50% while for large media/3D workloads was more around a 4% average improvement...

The Many Mutter + Shell Improvements Coming With GNOME 3.38

Phoronix - Wed, 09/09/2020 - 06:13
With GNOME 3.38 due to be released next week, the GNOME Shell and Mutter development blog has put out their overview of all the improvements and new features to expect...

Android 11 Released, Now Available Via Open-Source Project

Phoronix - Wed, 09/09/2020 - 03:32
Google engineers today celebrating pushing the Android 11 sources to the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) as part of the official Android 11 release...

Tux the Linux Penguin in its first video game, better DNS and firewall on Android, Gitops IDE goes open source, and more open source news

opensource.com - Wed, 09/09/2020 - 03:30

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, Gitpod open sources its IDE platform, BraveDNS launches an all-in-one platform, and more open source news.

Engineers debut an open source-powered robot

Matthias Müller and Vladlen Koltun, two engineers at Intel, have shared their new robot to tackle computer vision tasks. The robot, called "OpenBot", is powered by a smartphone, which acts as a camera and computing unit. 


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Fedora 34 KDE Spin Planning Switch To Wayland

Phoronix - Wed, 09/09/2020 - 03:06
For four years now since Fedora 25 the default GNOME Shell desktop environment has been using Wayland by default. Next spring with Fedora 34, the KDE Spin is finally planning a similar migration to use Wayland by default with the KDE Plasma desktop...

Intel AMT Hit By Another "Critical" Security Vulnerability

Phoronix - Wed, 09/09/2020 - 02:39
Intel's September 2020 security advisories were posted today and include four security advisories around nine vulnerabilities...

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