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The Godot Game Engine's Vulkan Support Is Getting In Increasingly Great Shape

Phoronix - Sat, 05/02/2020 - 12:00
The open-source Godot Game Engine lead developer Juan Linietsky has published a new Vulkan progress report, the first in three months, and as such there are a lot of changes...

Intel Sends Out Rocket Lake Linux Graphics Driver Patches - Confirms Gen12 Platform

Phoronix - Sat, 05/02/2020 - 03:12
A day after announcing the 10th Gen Core "Comet Lake" S-Series CPUs, the Intel open-source engineers have volleyed their first patches for bringing up the graphics on next-gen Rocket Lake...

Proton 5.0-7 Released With New Game Support, Updated VKD3D/DXVK

Phoronix - Sat, 05/02/2020 - 02:04
Following the Proton 5.0-7 release candidate from a few days ago, this critical part of Valve's Steam Play is now available for weekend gamers...

Thanks Oracle! New Patches Pending Can Reduce Linux Boot Times Up To ~49%

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 22:46
While many don't look upon Oracle's open-source software contributions too eagerly, some new patches out by their team can dramatically benefit Linux kernel boot times and they are working on getting it upstream. The numbers are already very promising and further work is also underway to make the improvement even more tantalizing...

NVIDIA Gets Into Open-Source Hardware With A Ventilator Design

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 21:28
While waiting to see what NVIDIA will be doing on the open-source driver front that has been pushed back, NVIDIA made a surprise open-source announcement today...

AMDGPU TMZ Support Wired Up For Linux 5.8

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 21:04
In addition to Intel sending in new feature code to DRM-Next, AMD developers on Thursday also sent in their AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature updates for Linux 5.8...

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