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Progress Being Made On OpenCL+OpenGL Over Direct3D 12

Phoronix - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 03:31
There is an update on the porting effort led by Collabora and Microsoft for layering OpenCL and OpenGL on top of Direct3D 12...

Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 Released For Open-Source Benchmarking, New Docker Benchmarking Image

Phoronix - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 01:37
Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 is available today as the latest quarterly stable feature release to our open-source, cross-platform benchmarking software.

NVIDIA 450.57 Linux Driver Released With Image Sharpening Option, NGX Library

Phoronix - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 21:45
Following a NVIDIA 450 Linux beta with the CUDA 11.0-rc in early June and the more formal NVIDIA 450.51 Linux beta later in June, NVIDIA has now promoted the 450 Linux driver series to stable with today's release of the 450.57 driver build...

systemd 246-RC1 Released

Phoronix - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 21:29
The first release candidate of the forthcoming systemd 246 is now available for testing...

KDE Seeing Fresh Improvements For HiDPI Support

Phoronix - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 21:18
It took the GNOME/Ubuntu side until Canonical developer Daniel van Vugt picked up a 4K display with Intel graphics for various 4K/Intel graphics optimizations to be discovered and continue to be addressed for the GNOME desktop. Now on the KDE side, well known contributor Nate Graham recently picked up a new laptop with HiDPI display and there he has been working to resolve a number of lingering high DPI issues on the KDE front...

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