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Valve Working On A VKD3D Fork For Getting Direct3D 12 Advanced For Proton / Steam Play

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2020 - 05:51
While upstream Wine developers continue working on VKD3D for providing a Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation layer for Wine, a developer on Valve's Proton team has now forked it as Proton-VKD3D for focusing their efforts on getting the D3D12 support moved along for Proton that powers Steam Play...

The Document Foundation Clarifies LibreOffice 7.0's "Personal Edition" Branding

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2020 - 05:05
Yes, it's true the LibreOffice builds in recent days -- including the new LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 -- have "Personal Edition" branding for the open-source builds. But given user concerns, The Document Foundation board has issued some clarifications to try to ease any immediate rumors, etc...

Seagate FireCuda 520 PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD Linux Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2020 - 00:22
For those that have been considering the Seagate FireCuda 520 as a PCI Express 4.0 NVMe solid-state drive, here are some benchmarks under Ubuntu Linux with this ZP500GM3A002 drive.

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