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AMD Linux Graphics Driver To Better Handle Power Savings During Compute Workloads

Phoronix - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 15:14
Over the past week have been two patch series in working to enable BACO (Bus Active, Chip Off) support and in turn power management capabilities when using AMDKFD (Kernel Fusion Driver) for compute workloads...

Haiku R1 Beta 2 Is Hopefully Not Too Far Away

Phoronix - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 13:09
The BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system that has been in development since 2001 saw its long-awaited beta release in late 2018 while it looks like a second beta release could be on approach for this open-source operating system...

NetBSD 9.0 Coming Soon With 64-bit ARM, Updated ZFS, Hardware-Accelerated Virtualization

Phoronix - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 08:48
The second release candidate of NetBSD 9.0 is now available for testing of what should be the last test candidate before the stable NetBSD 9 unveiling in the very near future...

KDevelop 5.5 Released With Better C++, PHP, Python Language Support

Phoronix - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 07:44
Version 5.5 of KDevelop, the KDE-focused integrated development environment, is now available with various language integration improvements...

Wine 5.1 Kicks Off The New Development Series Towards Wine 6.0

Phoronix - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 04:42
Following the release of Wine 5.0 about two weeks ago as the annual stable feature release of Wine, Wine 5.1 is out today in kicking off the next bi-weekly development series in the path towards Wine 6.0 due out next January...

Qt-Powered Lumina Desktop 1.6 Released For BSD/Linux Systems

Phoronix - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 02:43
Out this weekend is Lumina 1.6 as the latest release of this Qt-powered desktop environment originally developed by iXsystems as part of PC-BSD / TrueOS...

FS-VERITY Seeing Performance Enhancements With Linux 5.6

Phoronix - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 01:27
FS-VERITY came in Linux 5.4 as a means of transparent integrity and authenticity support for read-only files. This Google creation is seeing better performance with Linux 5.6...

New Vulkan Extension Could Enhance Frame Timing Controls For Games

Phoronix - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 00:26
Longtime X11 developer Keith Packard who has been working on various infrastructure improvements to the Linux desktop in recent years under contract for Valve has been eyeing the creation of a new Vulkan extension for dealing with frame timing behavior for Vulkan apps/games...

Intel Quietly Released A Redistributable, Lightweight ME "Ignition Firmware" Binary

Phoronix - Sun, 02/02/2020 - 21:03
Towards the end of last year Intel quietly released an "ignition firmware" for the Management Engine (ME) on their Cascade Lake platform that is also their first ME firmware release to be under a license permitting redistribution...

vkBasalt 0.3 Vulkan Layer Adds Support For Using Reshade Fx Shaders

Phoronix - Sun, 02/02/2020 - 20:50
The vkBasalt open-source project began as just providing Contrast Adaptive Sharpening support for Linux/Vulkan games similar to Radeon Image Sharpening. This Vulkan post-processing layer then added an option for applying FXAA anti-aliasing and then SMAA and other effects. Now vkBasalt 0.3 is out today with even more post-processing features...

KDE Begins February With More Improvements In Tow

Phoronix - Sun, 02/02/2020 - 20:32
While KDE Plasma 5.18 is dropping soon, feature work is already underway on Plasma 5.19 and other areas of the KDE desktop stack...

Lightworks 2020.1 Beta Video Editor Brings Linux Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 02/02/2020 - 17:00
Lightworks 2020.1 is on the way as this professional-grade video editing system's first release of the year and a change in their versioning scheme. Out this week is the first public beta of the still-proprietary video editing system for Windows, macOS, and Linux...

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