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Fedora Looks To Overhaul Its Community Outreach

Phoronix - Wed, 01/13/2021 - 04:03
In addition to pursuing many technical changes for its Linux distribution like systemd-oomd by default, Btrfs Zstd compression, and standalone XWayland releases, the Fedora project is also looking to overhaul its community outreach this year...

NVIDIA Announces The GeForce RTX 3060 For $329 USD

Phoronix - Wed, 01/13/2021 - 01:38
As one step below the existing GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, NVIDIA announced the RTX 3060 from the virtual CES event...

AMD Announces Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile Processors, Previews EPYC Milan

Phoronix - Wed, 01/13/2021 - 00:51
Following Intel's product announcements yesterday, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su providing her virtual keynote this morning for the virtual CES 2021. Here are the highlights for how AMD is aiming to make 2021 even more exciting than their prior stellar year...

CXL 2.0 Support Steps Closer To The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 22:28
So far for the virtual CES this week there hasn't been any big CXL 2.0 announcements since the Compute Express Link 2.0 specification was finalized back in November, but the Linux kernel support for this CPU-to-device interconnect continues coming together and will be hopefully mainlined in a coming release...

Open-Source NVIDIA Support For Recent GPUs Is Poor But Now You Can Fake It For Testing

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 22:07
The open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Gallium3D code within Mesa has wired up DRM shim support for basically faking the support in the absence of real hardware. This is mainly useful for testing the Nouveau OpenGL shader compiler code path without any actual code execution...

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