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Blender 2.82 Released With Many Improvements, 1000+ Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 02/15/2020 - 01:39
Blender 2.82 is out as the second update over last year's big Blender 2.80 release...

Windows vs. Linux Scaling Performance From 16 To 128 Threads With AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

Phoronix - Fri, 02/14/2020 - 22:43
As has been known for a while now, AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors really show their true potential on Linux with often significant increases to the performance thanks to the kernel's better scalability compared to Microsoft Windows. While Microsoft has made some improvements in this area over the past year, with the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-core / 128-thread HEDT processor it really shines on Linux. In this article are benchmarks of Windows 10 Professional and Windows 10 Enterprise against Linux on the Threadripper 3990X when going from 16 cores to 128 threads for seeing how the three operating systems are scaling.

Imagination Working On A New Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Project

Phoronix - Fri, 02/14/2020 - 20:47
While many in the Linux community still cringe when hearing Imagination Tech's PowerVR given the troubling state of their graphics drivers over the years, in 2020 it looks like they are pursuing a new open-source graphics driver project...

Qt 5.15 Alpha Released With Various Improvements To Qt 3D, QML, Core, New Qt PDF Module

Phoronix - Fri, 02/14/2020 - 20:32
After recently ending feature development on Qt 5.15, the alpha release of this forthcoming tool-kit is now available...

OpenSSH 8.2 Released With FIDO/U2F Support

Phoronix - Fri, 02/14/2020 - 19:37
OpenSSH 8.2 is out this Valentine's Day as the leading SSH suite. Besides working to disable the SSH-RSA public key signature algorithm due to SHA1 collision attacks, OpenSSH 8.2 also comes with new features...

PHP 7.4 Slated To Land In Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Phoronix - Fri, 02/14/2020 - 17:55
PHP 7.4 should be landing in the Ubuntu 20.04 archive in the next week or so...

Linux 5.7 Getting A "Tiny Power Button" Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 02/14/2020 - 16:33
A new driver already queued in the power management code for the Linux 5.7 cycle not opening up until April is a "tiny power button" driver...

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