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Radeon ROCm 4.0 Released With CDNA GPU Support (Instinct MI100)

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 07:18
Announced just over one month ago to the day was the AMD Instinct MI100 and as part of that the ROCM 4.0 software stack. ROCm 4.0 didn't end up actually shipping then but today its sources were uploaded and release builds made available...

Ubuntu Developers Get it Up And Running On Apple's M1 With Early Parallels Desktop Build

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 05:52
There has been some early success geting Ubuntu up and running on Apple's M1 ARM hardware with using the Apple Hypervisor Framework but it looks like a much better experience is on the way with the forthcoming Parallels Desktop for Apple Silicon...

Linux 5.10 As An LTS Kernel Comes Just In Time For AMD EPYC "Milan"

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 04:30
AMD noted that EPYC Milan "Zen 3" server processors would be shipping to select customers this quarter ahead of the formal launch in Q1. That's accurate with at least one enterprise now making public inquiries over Linux kernel versions for the EPYC 7003 series. The recent Linux 5.10 kernel debut being a Long-Term Support (LTS) release is coming just in time for those users...

Wine 6.0-RC3 Released With Another 19 Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 03:02
The third weekly release candidate of Wine 6.0 ahead of the stable release expected in January...

XWayland 21.1 Proposed In Splitting Off Releases From The X.Org Server

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 02:00
With no new X.Org Server releases on the horizon but Red Hat / Fedora wanting to ship updated XWayland support that is developed as part of the X.Org Server code-base, Red Hat engineers are now stepping up to carry out such XWayland-only releases derived from the same source tree but stripping out the code not relevant to XWayland support...

Better WebRTC Support Is Coming To Chrome/Chromium For Benefiting Wayland Screen Sharing

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 00:19
In recent years Red Hat engineers have been contributing to WebRTC in Chromium and related projects as part of Wayland screen sharing support that also works with the likes of PipeWire and XDG-Desktop-Portal. Looking forward to 2021, more WebRTC improvements in Chromium/Chrome are on the way...

OpenRISC + RISC-V Improvements Come For Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Fri, 12/18/2020 - 22:41
The OpenRISC and RISC-V processor architecture updates have both been submitted for the ongoing Linux 5.11 merge window...

Qt Design Studio 2.0, Qt Creator 4.14 Released

Phoronix - Fri, 12/18/2020 - 20:50
Following last week's release of Qt 6.0, The Qt Company has now released Qt Creator 4.14 and Qt Design Studio 2.0 as accompanying assets...

Intel Workload Hints, Zen RAPL PowerCap + Other Power/Thermal Changes For Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Fri, 12/18/2020 - 19:43
The ACPI / power management and thermal pull requests were all sent out and merged this week for the ongoing Linux 5.11 development...

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