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CentOS Hyperscaler Effort Approved With Backing From Facebook, Twitter

Phoronix - Sat, 01/16/2021 - 01:19
The CentOS board has approved the creation of a "Hyperscale" SIG spearheaded by engineers from the likes of Facebook and Twitter in aiming to make CentOS Stream more appealing to such large scale server/cloud organizations...

The Performance Of Clear Linux vs. Fedora vs. Ubuntu Over 2020

Phoronix - Sat, 01/16/2021 - 00:10
Earlier this week we looked at the performance of Intel's Clear Linux over the past year but how does that compare to the likes of say Fedora and Ubuntu? This article is looking at the performance of Fedora Workstation, Ubuntu, and Clear Linux on the same hardware over the past year.

Genode OS Planning For PinePhone Bring-Up, Better GPU Support In 2021

Phoronix - Fri, 01/15/2021 - 22:09
For those wanting to run a micro-kernel operating system for your low-cost, open-source friendly PinePhone, the Genode OS framework plans to port to the PinePhone this year. Genode OS and its Sculpt general purpose platform are also wanting to better embrace GPU support in 2021...

AMD Sends In More "New Stuff" For Radeon Graphics With Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Fri, 01/15/2021 - 21:06
Sent in last week were many AMD graphics driver updates slated for Linux 5.12 including the likes of Radeon RX 6000 series OverDrive support. This week marks another batch of AMDGPU kernel driver changes being submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.12 cycle...

Ubuntu 21.04 To Expand The Use Of Phased Package Updates

Phoronix - Fri, 01/15/2021 - 19:26
With this spring's release of Ubuntu 21.04 there is more widespread use of "phased updates" for gradually rolling out new stable release updates to help avoid any regressions en masse from coming to light. For years the Ubuntu desktop has employed this phased updates strategy while now with it being plumbed into APT, Ubuntu Server and other versions will by default make use of phased updates...

Proton 5.13-5 Now Available With Cyberpunk 2077 Fixes, Microsoft Flight Simulator VR

Phoronix - Fri, 01/15/2021 - 19:11
After experimental builds and the recent release candidates, Valve's Proton 5.13-5 is now available as the latest version of this Wine downstream for powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

Mesa's RADV ACO Adds Support For Rapid Packed Math

Phoronix - Fri, 01/15/2021 - 18:16
Hitting the Mesa tree when Mesa 21.0 was being branched (but looks like it will still make it now part of "staging/21.0") is support for AMD's "rapid packed math" with the RADV driver's ACO compiler back-end...

Fedora 34 Planning For Better Font Rendering By Enabling HarfBuzz In FreeType

Phoronix - Fri, 01/15/2021 - 17:24
One of the latest planned changes to the long list of improvements for Fedora 34 is enabling the HarfBuzz support within the FreeType library...

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