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KDE Ships 20.08 Application Updates

Phoronix - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 21:49
KDE has shipped their latest collection of applications with newest feature updates...

Intel Offers New Xe Graphics Details, Product Updates At 2020 Architecture Day

Phoronix - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 21:00
This week Intel held their 2020 Architecture Day, albeit virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A lot of interesting technical information was shared on both the hardware and software sides. Here are some of the interesting highlights.

Intel Is Using IGC In Their Windows Drivers, Internal Prototype For Mesa

Phoronix - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 21:00
At Intel's Architecture Day this week the company was talking about work on their new Windows graphics driver that is being timed for Xe but supporting existing generations of hardware as well. One of the interesting takeaways was seeing the Windows driver is now using the open-source "IGC" back-end...

Intel oneAPI 1.0 "Gold" Is Coming Later This Year

Phoronix - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 21:00
Recently I wrote about it looking like oneAPI 1.0 was lining up and now there is further confirmation of the first production release of this Intel software collection indeed coming this year...

Qt Creator 4.13 RC Released With Initial Meson Integration, Updated C++ Code Model

Phoronix - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 18:34
The Qt Company today issued the first release candidate of their forthcoming Qt Creator 4.13 integrated development environment as well as a beta of their Qt Design Studio 1.6...

FUSE Read/Write Passthrough Updated For Much Better File-System Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 15:48
Of various criticisms around FUSE for implementing file-systems in user-space, one of the most prolific issues is around the performance generally being much lower than a proper file-system kernel driver. But with the FUSE passthrough functionality that continue to be worked on, there is the potential for much better FUSE file-system performance...

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