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NIR-To-TGSI Support Added To Mesa 20.3

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 03:17
Mesa 20.3 has merged a long work-in-progress patch series providing support for going from the modern NIR intermediate representation to TGSI as the conventional Gallium3D IR...

NetBSD 9.1 Released With Parallelized Disk Encryption, Better ZFS, X11 Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 02:35
Not only is there a new OpenBSD release this week but the NetBSD crew also issued a big update in the form of NetBSD 9.1...

The Document Foundation Is Looking To Finish ODF 1.3 Support In LibreOffice

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 00:32
The ODF 1.3 Open Document Format specification was approved by the OASIS Committee at the start of the year and now as we approach the end of the year The Document Foundation is hoping to see ODF 1.3 support completed soon for this leading open-source office suite...

System76 Launches The Thelio Mega With Threadripper + Four GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 23:00
The System76 Thelio Major with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3900 series is already a beast, but now this Linux PC vendor has managed to outdo themselves once again with the Thelio Mega...

Firefox 82 Released With Performance Improvements, Video Playback Enhancements

Phoronix - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 22:40
Firefox 82.0 is now available as the latest release of Mozilla's web browser that continues on their expedited release cycles...

Linux 5.10 Xen Brings Security Updates - Includes Fixing ARM Guests With KPTI

Phoronix - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 22:00
The Xen virtualization work for the Linux 5.10 kernel revolves around security...

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