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Pyston v2 Released As ~20% Faster Than Python 3.8

Phoronix - Thu, 10/29/2020 - 02:01
Version 2.0 of Pyston is now available, the Python implementation originally started by Dropbox that builds on LLVM JIT for offering faster Python performance...

Linux Support Expectations For The AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series

Phoronix - Thu, 10/29/2020 - 00:00
Lisa Su is about to begin the presentation unveiling the much anticipated Radeon RX 6000 "Big Navi" (RDNA 2) graphics cards. This article will be updated live as the event progresses but first up let's recap the current Linux open-source driver state for these forthcoming graphics cards.

Adam Jackson On The State Of The X.Org Server In 2020

Phoronix - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 23:31
Adam Jackson who on Red Hat's Graphics Team served as the X.Org Server release manager for many years and being heavily involved in the xorg-server development and related components as shared his views on whether the X.Org Server is "abandonware."..

Ubuntu 21.04 Is The "Hirsute Hippo", Releasing On 22 April

Phoronix - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 21:31
Following last week's Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" release, Ubuntu 21.04 development is now getting underway as the Hirsute Hippo...

Qt 6 To Ship With Package Manager For Extra Libraries

Phoronix - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 21:00
Adding to the list of changes coming with the Qt 6 toolkit, The Qt Company has now outlined their initial implementation of a package manager to provide additional Qt6 modules...

Sony Engineer Talks Up Using Flutter + Wayland For Their Embedded Interfaces

Phoronix - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 19:00
A Sony engineer confirmed at this week's Embedded Linux Conference Europe that the company has begun using the Flutter toolkit atop Wayland as their means of developing user-interfaces on embedded systems...

Mesa 20.3 Supports Intel Alder Lake Gen12 Graphics

Phoronix - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 18:32
Last week Intel open-source engineers began publishing Linux kernel patches for the "Alder Lake S" graphics support. That work should be found in the Linux 5.11 cycle being christened as stable in early 2021. In user-space, Alder Lake graphics patches also appeared for their OpenCL / oneAPI Level Zero compute stack and now merged into Mesa 20.3 as well for OpenGL / Vulkan support...

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