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Wine's Direct3D Vulkan Backend Is Seeing Some New Activity

Phoronix - Sat, 04/18/2020 - 04:38
While there exists DXVK offering great Direct3D 9/10/11 support atop Vulkan that is used by Steam Play / Proton and others, Wine developers continue working on their Vulkan back-end to WineD3D as a similar Direct3D-over-Vulkan approach for pre-D3D12...

OpenZFS Merges The New FreeBSD Support

Phoronix - Sat, 04/18/2020 - 02:47
FreeBSD developers have been working on transitioning to using OpenZFS as their ZFS file-system upstream code rather than the dormant Illumos base. That initial FreeBSD support has been mainlined this week into the OpenZFS repository, now providing a common code-base between for the open-source ZFS file-system code between Illumos, FreeBSD, Linux, and work-in-progress macOS...

Radeon Software For Linux 20.10 Driver Released

Phoronix - Sat, 04/18/2020 - 00:09
AMD has finally released their first "Radeon Software for Linux" packaged driver release to succeed their Radeon Software for Linux 19.50 driver series that saw its last update in December. Radeon Software for Linux 20.10 is available today as their first packaged Linux driver update of 2020 for AND Radeon Linux owners as the packaged solution intended for easy installation of their All-Open and "PRO" driver components...

Chrome 83 Beta Rolls Out With Better Form Controls, Barcode Detection API

Phoronix - Fri, 04/17/2020 - 23:11
Following the release of Chrome 81 earlier this month, Chrome 83 is now in beta with Google having skipped Chrome 82 due to delays / internal issues...

Initial Benchmarks Of Schedutil Performance On Linux 5.7 Show Room Still For Improvement

Phoronix - Fri, 04/17/2020 - 22:45
With Linux 5.7 the kernel is preparing to use the Schedutil governor more often on Intel systems. That change affects the CPUfreq default as well as the Intel P-State driver when in passive mode. While Schedutil holds a lot of hope, at least on Linux 5.7 with the testing I've done thus far the results show the raw performance slipping while testing on more platforms is forthcoming.

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