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LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha 1 Released With Its Skia + Vulkan Rendering

Phoronix - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 04:06
The first alpha release of LibreOffice 7.0 is out this week for testing ahead of the planned official release of this big open-source office suite update in August...

GPUOpen Celebrates Another Day Of Its Relaunch With A New Binary-Only Software Release

Phoronix - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 00:47
AMD this week marked the relaunch of GPUOpen as their resource for creators and game developers with their collection of open-source/open-standards minded offerings on the graphics front. In honor of their relaunch, they said they would be issuing new software releases every day this week. It was a bit odd yesterday with Radeon Rays 4.0 dropping their open-source code-base and today they are introducing another new utility that is also binary-only...

AMD Renoir Graphics Beating Out Intel Icelake/Gen11 On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 00:20
Earlier this week I provided the first Linux benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 7 4700U Zen 2 mobile processor on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and running within a Lenovo IdeaPad 5 (14). That initial article was focused on the CPU performance while for your viewing pleasure today are some preliminary benchmark numbers for the Vega 7 graphics up against Intel Gen11/Icelake.

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