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Crucial P2 Performance On Ubuntu Linux - An Affordable 500GB NVMe SSD

Phoronix - Sat, 05/09/2020 - 05:00
Last month Crucial introduced their P2 NVMe SSD series as their new low-cost successor to their prior P1 series. The Crucial P2 500GB NVMe solid-state drive retails for $60~65 USD which offers good value and yields better performance than their prior low-cost P1 SSDs.

Wine 5.8 Released With GIF Encoder, More WineD3D Vulkan Progress

Phoronix - Sat, 05/09/2020 - 04:32
Wine 5.8 has been uncorked for the weekend as the newest bi-weekly development release for running Windows programs and games on Linux and other platforms...

Xrdesktop 0.14 Released With OpenXR Support

Phoronix - Fri, 05/08/2020 - 23:08
Xrdesktop, the Valve-funded Linux desktop support for VR headsets and making the likes of GNOME and KDE window managers VR-aware, is out with a new release...

LibreOffice On Windows Will Now Hard Require Clang For Performance Reasons

Phoronix - Fri, 05/08/2020 - 21:28
Last month we reported on LibreOffice now preferring its new rendering code be built with LLVM Clang over alternative compilers. When falling back to CPU-based software rasterization, the Clang-generated code performs much better than alternative compilers given Google's own emphasis with Skia on being Clang-focused. LibreOffice 7.0 is now beginning a hard requirement on Clang when building for Windows...

Con Kolivas Fixes Up GUI-Related Stalls In Mesa

Phoronix - Fri, 05/08/2020 - 19:25
Con Kolivas known for his longtime work on improving Linux desktop responsiveness with largely working on the kernel and the likes of MuQSS has now seen his first Mesa patch merged for fixing unexpected GUI-related stalls...

FreeRDP 2.1 Released Due To Multiple Security Issues

Phoronix - Fri, 05/08/2020 - 18:58
Last month marked the release of FreeRDP 2.0 for implementing the Microsoft Remote Assistant Protocol v2. FreeRDP 2.0 also brought RDP proxy support, font smoothing by default, Flatpak packaging support, better scaling for Wayland, and other improvements. Today now marks the release of FreeRDP 2.1...

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