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Mesa 20.3 + Linux 5.9 Is In Great Shape Against AMDVLK, AMDGPU-PRO

Phoronix - Mon, 09/14/2020 - 22:48
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" with its ACO back-end by default is now winning nearly across the board against not only AMD's AMDVLK Vulkan driver with LLVM back-end but also AMDGPU-PRO with the proprietary shader compiler back-end.

Linux 5.10 To Bring Some Improvements For Newer Lenovo Laptops

Phoronix - Mon, 09/14/2020 - 19:09
With Lenovo working to expand their Linux line-up and already Fedora being offered on the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8, more Linux support improvements are on the way...

AMDVLK 2020.Q3.5 Vulkan Driver Released With Several Game Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 09/14/2020 - 18:45
AMD has kicked off the new week with the release of AMDVLK 2020.Q3.5 as their official open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems derived in part from the same sources as their Windows Vulkan driver...

FuryBSD 2020-Q3 Released For This Xfce/KDE FreeBSD Desktop Distribution

Phoronix - Mon, 09/14/2020 - 18:27
FuryBSD 2020-Q3 is out as the newest quarterly feature release to this BSD distribution built atop FreeBSD and focused on providing a pleasant desktop experience and one that can function as a LiveDVD for trying out the desktop BSD without installation...

Qbs 1.17 Released With This Build System Still Alive

Phoronix - Mon, 09/14/2020 - 18:09
Back in late 2018 there was the decision by The Qt Company to deprecate Qbs in favor of CMake. The Qbs build system hasn't been actively worked on by The Qt Company in one year but some community members have been still hacking on it leading to today's Qbs 1.17 release...

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