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OpenBLAS 0.3.11 Brings Many Changes From Zen 3 To POWER10 Support

Phoronix - Sun, 10/18/2020 - 06:20
OpenBLAS 0.3.11 is out as the newest major feature release for this BLAS linear algebra library. While the version number may not make it seem like a big update, it is especially when it comes to new CPU support...

NVIDIA Doesn't Expect To Have Linux 5.9 Driver Support For Another Month

Phoronix - Sun, 10/18/2020 - 02:39
While NVIDIA is usually quite timely in supporting new versions of the Linux kernel and aim to have out a driver by the end of the release candidates for new series, in the case of the recently minted Linux 5.9 kernel it's taking a lot longer...

More KDE Wayland Fixes Heading Into Plasma 5.20.1

Phoronix - Sat, 10/17/2020 - 22:52
This week marked the release of Plasma 5.20 while KDE developers continue working towards not only Plasma 5.21 as the next desktop feature release but also providing fixes for next month's Plasma 5.20.1 release and the growing collection of KDE applications...

Zink In Mesa 20.3 Now Hits OpenGL 3.3, Can Run Blender With This OpenGL-on-Vulkan

Phoronix - Sat, 10/17/2020 - 21:07
For weeks there have been patches getting the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation to OpenGL 4.6 while mainline Mesa has been at OpenGL 3.0 support. Thankfully the out-of-tree patch delta is being reduced and this week in Mesa 20.3-devel the code has been upstreamed getting the support level to OpenGL 3.3...

PowerPC 601 Support Retired In Linux 5.10 While Continuing To Bring Up POWER10

Phoronix - Sat, 10/17/2020 - 20:47
The POWER architecture changes have been submitted for the Linux 5.10 kernel. As expected, the PowerPC 601 support is retired as that original 32-bit PowerPC processor from the early 90's...

Linux 5.10 Perf Adds More Reporting For Zen 1, Initial Zen 3 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 10/17/2020 - 18:46
The perf tool updates have been sent in for the ongoing Linux 5.10 merge window...

NGG Appears To Be In Good Shape For RDNA 2 / RX 6000 Series

Phoronix - Sat, 10/17/2020 - 18:21
NGG (Next-Gen Geometry) ended up being fairly buggy/problematic for Navi but it looks like for the upcoming Radeon RX 6000 (RDNA 2 / Navi 2) launch that it's in better shape...

Install Lubuntu 20.04 – A Lightweight Linux Desktop Environment

Tecmint - Sat, 10/17/2020 - 13:04

Lubuntu is an open-source distribution of Linux based on Ubuntu. It is lightweight, fewer resource hungry, more energy-efficient and uses an LXQT desktop environment. The initial release of Lubuntu has LXDE as their desktop

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