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GTK Planning More Improvements In 2021 From Better Accessibility To Animation Framework

Phoronix - Wed, 11/25/2020 - 04:56
In addition to shipping the much anticipated GTK 4.0, this toolkit driven by the GNOME desktop environment is making more plans for an exciting 2021...

Terminal Vitality - Linux Journal

Google News - Wed, 11/25/2020 - 02:03
Terminal Vitality  Linux Journal

George F Rice - Linux Journal

Google News - Wed, 11/25/2020 - 02:03
George F Rice  Linux Journal

GPUOpen Software Updated For The Radeon RX 6000 Series

Phoronix - Wed, 11/25/2020 - 01:18
AMD has updated their collection of software offered under their "GPUOpen" umbrella for Radeon RX 6000 series / RDNA 2 compatibility...

Tiger Lake + Renoir On Ubuntu Linux For Battery vs. AC Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 11/25/2020 - 00:30
Given the recent Intel presentation alleging AMD Ryzen laptop performance being worse on battery relative to the AC vs. battery performance seen with Intel EVO notebooks featuring Tiger Lake processors, I ran a mini comparison on my side to see whether there is any merit to Intel's information when testing under Ubuntu Linux.

Linux READFILE System Call Revived Now That It Might Have A User

Phoronix - Tue, 11/24/2020 - 21:08
Earlier this year we mentioned Greg Kroah-Hartman working on a new READFILE system call. The goal of this new syscall is for reading small and medium files more efficiently by having one call to read a file straight into a buffer without having to use the separate open/read/close system calls. It's looking like that system call is back on the table and could be mainlined now that there's a possible user...

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