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Fedora 33 Is Shaping Up To Be One Of Its Biggest Releases Ever

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 08:53
Fedora 33 is easily shaping up to be one of the biggest releases ever for this long-time Linux distribution formerly known as Fedora Core. It's just not a few big features like Fedora desktop variants defaulting to Btrfs but even just on feature count alone it's looking by far to be one of the biggest at least in a number of years if not ever...

DC Display Support Continues To Be Worked On For Radeon GCN 1.0 With AMDGPU Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 06:03
On top of the recent UVD video decode for AMD Radeon "GCN 1.0" GPUs with the AMDGPU kernel driver to complement the existing Radeon kernel driver support, these aging "Southern Islands" graphics cards also continue to see patchwork on enabling "Display Core" (DC) display support with the AMDGPU driver option...

The Linux Performance For AMD Rome vs. Intel Cascade Lake One Year After Launch

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 02:30
With the Intel 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable (Cascade Lake) processors having turned a year old in April and next month marking one year since the launch of the AMD EPYC 7002 (Rome) series, here are fresh benchmarks of the dual Xeon Platinum 8280 versus the AMD EPYC 7742 when testing the Linux software stack from early 2019 and then again using a bleeding-edge Linux software stack as of this month. This shows how the Linux software performance has evolved over the past year for both Intel and AMD on the server front as well as how the current top-end SKUs are competing right now.

KDE's Konsole Continues Seeing New Features

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 01:37
In recent months KDE's Konsole terminal emulator has been seeing a lot of new features while even more are in the works...

WirePlumber Ready For The Linux Desktop As Replacement To PipeWire's Session Manager

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 23:02
Announced earlier this year was WirePlumber as a new session manager for PipeWire with its role in managing of audio/video streams to/from hardware/software components as well as handling security/permissions, device monitoring, and other session management functionality...

QEMU 5.1 Bringing Many CPU Improvements From Loongson To RISC-V To s390

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 19:54
QEMU 5.1-rc0 is available as the first step towards this next feature release of this important component to the Linux virtualization stack...

Intel Gen12 Graphics Bring EU Fusion - EUs Fused In Pairs

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 19:01
While we remain eager to find out more about (and benchmark) Intel Gen12 graphics in Tiger Lake and Xe discrete graphics with this generation bringing the biggest changes to the ISA since i965, Linux patches and bug reports do continue offering new tid-bits of information on Gen12...

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