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Intel Boosts Gen7 GPU Vulkan Compute Performance By ~330% For Geekbench

Phoronix - Wed, 02/26/2020 - 05:00
Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux doesn't see much attention for pre-Broadwell hardware but today it saw a big improvement for Vulkan compute on aging Gen7 Ivybridge/Haswell era hardware...

Intel Has Accumulated 400+ Graphics Driver Patches So Far For Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Wed, 02/26/2020 - 03:10
Intel just sent out their initial pull request of new feature changes/improvements to DRM-Next that in turn is for landing in about one month's time when the Linux 5.7 merge window kicks off. With taking longer than usual to send in their first round of feature updates, this first of several pull requests already amounts to over 400 patches...

Free Software Foundation Aims To Launch Code Hosting / Collaboration Platform This Year

Phoronix - Wed, 02/26/2020 - 01:32
The Free Software Foundation is planning to launch their own public code hosting and collaboration platform in 2020...

OnLogic Teasing EPYC Edge Servers, Rolling Out More Ryzen Mini PCs

Phoronix - Wed, 02/26/2020 - 01:12
Linux-friendly industrial PC vendor OnLogic has announced an expanded line-up of their mini PC offerings with Ryzen Embedded processors and also word that next quarter they will be getting into EPYC-powered edge servers...

Arch-Based Manjaro 19.0 Released With Flagship Edition Using Xfce 4.14

Phoronix - Tue, 02/25/2020 - 22:30
Manjaro 19.0 is out today as this popular desktop-focused Arch Linux based distribution that is focused on its Xfce desktop spin but also offers other desktop options...

Running The Linux 5.6 Kernel With AMD Radeon Graphics

Phoronix - Tue, 02/25/2020 - 20:32
Now hitting about mid-way through the Linux 5.6 kernel with early fallout having been addressed, we've been ramping up our testing/benchmarking of this next major kernel release. Here is our initial experience with the AMDGPU driver on Linux 5.6...

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