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GNOME 3.36.1 Released With First Batch Of Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 23:35
Following last month's release of GNOME 3.36 with its many new features and performance improvements, GNOME 3.36.1 is out today with the first batch of updates/fixes to this H1'2020 open-source desktop...

Mesa OpenGL Threading Enabled For More Games Yielding Sizable Performance Jumps

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 23:02
Well known open-source AMD OpenGL driver developer Marek Olšák has enabled more Linux games to run with Mesa's GLTHREAD functionality enabled for helping with the performance...

LXD 4.0 LTS Released For Offering The Latest Linux Containers Experience

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 21:00
Ahead of the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release later this month, the Canonical folks working on LXD for Linux containers and VMs have released LXD 4.0 LTS...

Btrfs File-System Updates Land In Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 20:46
SUSE's David Sterba sent in the Btrfs file-system updates this week for the Linux 5.7 kernel...

LLVM Plumbs Support For Intel Golden Cove's New SERIALIZE Instruction

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 19:07
Yesterday we noted Intel's programming reference manual being updated with new Golden Cove instructions for Sapphire Rapids and Alder Lake and with that Intel's open-source developers have begun pushing their changes to the compilers. The latest updates add TSXLDTRK, a new HYBRID bit for Core+Atom hybrd CPUs, and a new SERIALIZE instruction. After GCC was receiving the patch attention yesterday, LLVM is getting its attention today...

Linux 5.6.2 Released With Fix For The IWLWIFI Intel WiFi Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 18:31
Basically a half-week after Linux 5.6 shipped as stable, we are up to the second point release of it...

Intel 10th Gen H-Series Mobile CPUs Hit Up To 5.3GHz

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 18:18
Days after AMD announced their full Ryzen 4000 series mobile CPU line-up, Intel has now introduced their 10th Gen Core H-series processors...

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