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CentOS Hyperscaler Is Sounding Quite Promising For The Modern Enterprise

Phoronix - Wed, 02/10/2021 - 02:12
The CentOS Hyperscale effort is sounding quite promising for those riding CentOS Stream and wanting fresher packages in some instances and alternative defaults as a blend of CentOS Stream, Fedora / EPEL, and its own forthcoming package repositories...

RADV+ACO Look To Your Help For Improving The Vulkan Driver & Linux Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 02/10/2021 - 00:39
RADV is a Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs that is part of the Mesa project and installed on most Linux distros out of the box. Our goal is to deliver a stable and performant driver to Linux gamers, and recently we've made our own shader compiler called ACO. To create the best possible experience, we'd like to take it a step further and ask our users for some testing and feedback.

Khronos Releases SYCL 2020 For C++ Heterogeneous Parallel Programming

Phoronix - Tue, 02/09/2021 - 22:15
SYCL as the single-source C++-based programming model for heterogeneous parallel programming is now revised to the SYCL 2020 specification released today by The Khronos Group...

helloSystem Wants To Be The "macOS of BSDs" With A Polished Desktop Experience

Phoronix - Tue, 02/09/2021 - 20:41
While it was a sad blow when PC-BSD/TrueOS stopped pursuing its desktop ambitions as what was arguably the leading BSD desktop operating system out there with a nice end-user experience, since then we have seen efforts like MidnightBSD, GhostBSD, and others fill the avoid with continuing to enhance the out-of-the-box BSD desktop system. A new entrant that is quite interesting is helloSystem that aims to be a "macOS of BSDs" for a polished desktop experience...

Kali Linux vs. Ubuntu - Programming Insider

Google News - Tue, 02/09/2021 - 20:33
Kali Linux vs. Ubuntu  Programming Insider

The Work Ahead For Ubuntu 21.04 To Switch To Wayland By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 02/09/2021 - 19:12
Last month was the delightful news that Ubuntu 21.04 is aiming to use Wayland by default for non-NVIDIA systems on the GNOME desktop rather than the X.Org session. While there is two months to go until the Ubuntu 21.04 release, there still is more work ahead in making that shift a reality...

Linux's Exfatprogs 1.1 Released To Fsck The Boot Region, Labeling Support

Phoronix - Tue, 02/09/2021 - 19:06
Exfatprogs 1.1 have been released as the open-source, user-space utilities around the Linux/Android exFAT file-system support maintained by Samsung...

There's Finally A Decent Vulkan Ray-Tracing Benchmark

Phoronix - Tue, 02/09/2021 - 16:39
While so far only the NVIDIA proprietary driver on Linux supports the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions, eventually we will see support for these new Vulkan extensions with the AMD Vulkan drivers for the Radeon RX 6000 series and newer. There has also been work by Intel in preparing for Vulkan ray-tracing with Xe HPG. For when the time comes to test those implementations, there is finally one good, open-source, automated Vulkan RT benchmark so far...

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