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Linux 5.9 Stable Expected In Two Weeks, But For Now Is Linux 5.9-rc7

Phoronix - Mon, 09/28/2020 - 06:22
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.9-rc7 as the newest weekly test candidate for Linux 5.9. Due to the regressions encountered this cycle and prominent issues being resolved late, he's looking at releasing Linux 5.9 in two weeks time rather than next week...

Ventoy 1.0.22 - Neowin

Google News - Mon, 09/28/2020 - 02:26
Ventoy 1.0.22  Neowin

More Vulkan NCNN Inference Benchmarks On AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce Under Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 09/28/2020 - 01:27
Given the interest from the RealSR-NCNN Vulkan benchmarks on various NVIDIA and AMD Radeon graphics cards looking at this neural network inference framework with the task of upscaling an image by 4x the resolution using RealSR, here are some more benchmarks of the NCNN framework accelerated by Vulkan on different GPUs under Ubuntu Linux...

Independent Developers Tackling Snapdragon 630/660 SoC Support For The Upstream Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 09/27/2020 - 18:44
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 660 is approaching four years old and the Snapdragon 630 a bit younger than that, but these mobile phone SoCs may soon find renewed life on the upstream Linux kernel thanks to the work of community developers...

DP-HDMI2.1 Protocol Converter Support Being Tackled For Intel Linux Graphics

Phoronix - Sun, 09/27/2020 - 18:24
Patches sent out on Friday provide an initial DP-HDMI2.1 PCON implementation for the Intel Linux kernel graphics driver...

Virt-Manager 3.0 Released With UI Improvements, Cloud-Init Option

Phoronix - Sun, 09/27/2020 - 17:57
Virt-Manager 3.0 quietly got released a little more than one week ago...

What would a global open organization look like?

opensource.com - Sun, 09/27/2020 - 15:00

In the first article in this series, I presented four dimensions of globalization and explained how they relate to open organization principles. Then, in the second part, I reviewed a history of globalization, one based on Jeffrey D.


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After ~70% FPS Boost For Zink, The OpenGL-on-Vulkan Code Is ~50% The GL Native Speed

Phoronix - Sun, 09/27/2020 - 13:34
For those following the development of Zink as a software OpenGL driver built atop the Vulkan API, there are some new performance numbers to discuss this weekend...

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