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Mesa 21.1.1 Released With More Open-Source AMD / Intel Graphics Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 04:25
For those that wait until the first point release of a new quarterly Mesa 3D driver stack feature release before upgrading, now is the time to move to the Mesa 21.1.1 series...

Free Software Projects Defenestrate The Freenode IRC Network

Phoronix - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 02:53
Seemingly by the minute today there are more free software projects leaving the Freenode IRC network and moving to alternative IRC networks or other chat platforms...

Firefox Making Strides On Improved Linux Stability Thanks To Better Crash Reports

Phoronix - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 00:34
Mozilla detailed today how their year-long effort so far aiming to improve the stability of the Firefox web browser on Linux is paying off...

Ampere Is Designing Their Own Arm Server CPU Cores, Coming In 2022

Phoronix - Wed, 05/19/2021 - 23:00
Ampere is going public today with a strategy and road-map update where they have now publicly acknowledged they are developing their own in-house server CPU cores.

Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS / 20.10 / 21.04 Performance On Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake

Phoronix - Wed, 05/19/2021 - 21:03
While there is more to consider when choosing a Linux distribution than just the out-of-the-box performance, for those curious about the performance of recent Ubuntu releases for running with Intel's new 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake" processors, here are some benchmarks showing how the performance has improved from Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS to Ubuntu 20.10 and now the recent Ubuntu 21.04 Linux release.

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