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SECCOMP Filters Get A Very Nice Speed-Up With Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 05:51
The Linux 5.11 kernel cycle continues to prove to be very exciting. The latest are SECCOMP filters for this secure computing mode yielding a nice speed-up...

GTK4 To Bring Better & Faster macOS Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 02:40
On top of the many other improvements for the soon-to-be-released GTK4 toolkit, there is now better support for Apple's macOS...

There's Finally An Experimental Driver For Native Wayland Support Within Wine

Phoronix - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 01:20
Alexandros Frantzis has announced the creation of a Wayland driver for Wine. This driver allows Windows GDI/OpenGL applications to run on Wayland compositors without any use of X11/XWayland...

NVIDIA 460.27.04 Linux Beta Driver Has Ray-Tracing, Many Other Changes

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 22:37
Timed with the expanded Vulkan ray-tracing resources available today, NVIDIA has released their first Linux driver beta in the R460 series as the eventual successor to the current 455.xx series...

Vulkan SDK, Tooling, Samples & Developer Guide Updated For Ray-Tracing

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 22:00
Vulkan 1.2.162 was released at the end of November with the ratified Vulkan ray-tracing extension for multi-vendor use. The Khronos Group today is announcing the updated Vulkan SDK, tooling, code samples, and developer guide today with ray-tracing coverage included...

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