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How to Install Windows Subsystem for Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 09/18/2020 - 14:44

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) runs a GNU/Linux Environment which includes most of the command-line utilities and applications on top of Windows OS. Traditionally there are many ways we can set up Linux

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Taiwins 0.2 Released As Modular Wayland Compositor That Supports Lua Scripting

Phoronix - Fri, 09/18/2020 - 12:02
Back in May the Taiwins Wayland compositor was announced as a compact compositor based on Libweston while Thursday marked its second release...

V3DV Developers Lay Out Plans For Upstreaming The Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver In Mesa

Phoronix - Fri, 09/18/2020 - 08:38
Building off the V3DV driver talk at XDC2020 about this open-source Vulkan driver for the Raspberry Pi 4 driver, the Igalia developers responsible for this creation have laid out their plans on getting this driver upstream within Mesa...

Linux 5.9 To Allow Controlling Page Lock Unfairness In Addressing Performance Regression

Phoronix - Fri, 09/18/2020 - 04:14
Following the Linux 5.0 to 5.9 kernel benchmarks on AMD EPYC and it showing the in-development Linux 5.9 kernel regressing in some workloads, bisecting that issue, and that bringing up the issue of the performance regression over page lock fairness a solution for Linux 5.9 has now landed.

Cache Creator Tool Proposed For AMDVLK Vulkan Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 09/18/2020 - 00:55
Google engineer Steven Perron has laid out their proposal for an XGL cache creator tool for AMD's official Vulkan Linux driver, AMDVLK...

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