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Proton 5.0-2 Released To Fix Crashes For Steam Play Linux Gamers

Phoronix - Fri, 02/14/2020 - 02:52
Proton 5.0-2 is out with fixes over last week's big Proton 5.0-1 release that brought many features to this Wine 5.0 downstream focused on powering Valve's Steam Play for running Windows games nicely on Linux...

Intel Blackhole Render Support Lands In Mesa 20.1

Phoronix - Fri, 02/14/2020 - 02:41
Intel Blackhole Render support was finally merged today for the new Intel "Iris" Gallium3D OpenGL driver default, the older i965 driver for pre-Broadwell hardware, and also the Mesa state tracker for Gallium3D drivers...

Ubuntu 20.04 + Linux 5.5: Fresh Benchmarks Of AMD EPYC Rome vs. Intel Xeon Cascade Lake

Phoronix - Fri, 02/14/2020 - 00:19
Here are some fresh numbers looking at the current performance of various AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors up against Intel Xeon Cascade Lake processors when using an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS development snapshot and also upgrading to Linux 5.5 as the latest stable kernel. Beyond raw performance, power efficiency and performance-per-dollar for these different server CPUs are being compared as well for these sub-$5000 processors.

Flatpak 1.6.2 Released To Fix Performance Regression Of Slow Install Times

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2020 - 23:34
Flatpak 1.6.2 is out and users are encouraged to upgrade due to a recent Flatpak + OSTree regression that leads to slow install times...

New Patches: AMD Live Migration Support For VMs With Secure Encrypted Virtualization

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2020 - 22:13
Beyond the Linux kernel patches presented earlier this week for AMD SEV-ES "Encrypted State" support, another Linux patch series out overnight provides another improvement to Secure Encrypted Virtualization with AMD EPYC server processors...

Belated GTK 3.98 Puts GTK 4.0 One Step Closer

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2020 - 21:35
The release of the long sought after GTK 4.0 is one step closer to finally becoming reality with the slightly delayed GTK 3.98 now being available for testing...

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