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AMD's RadeonSI Driver Finally Enables OpenGL 4.6 But You Need To First Enable NIR

Phoronix - Thu, 11/28/2019 - 09:10
The OpenGL 4.6 extension is nearly two and a half years old while finally the open-source Mesa OpenGL drivers are catching up to this latest OpenGL revision that offers Vulkan/SPIR-V interoperability and other additions...

Google's Stadia Controller Support Added To SDL2

Phoronix - Thu, 11/28/2019 - 08:37
The SDL2 library has been seeing a number of additions in recent days to its game controller database by Valve's Sam Lantinga. The latest game controller to be added is for Google's now-shipping Stadia Controller...

Linux 5.5 Staging Changes Land With New WiFi Driver To Improved exFAT Support

Phoronix - Thu, 11/28/2019 - 07:18
Greg Kroah-Hartman mailed in the staging area changes today for the Linux 5.5 kernel and they have already been pulled into mainline...

Intel Nehalem vs. Ice Lake Benchmarks - Including Clock + Power + Thermal Metrics

Phoronix - Thu, 11/28/2019 - 04:47
As part of the exciting benchmark week and our ongoing tests of Intel Ice Lake on Linux, this next piece has been driven out of curiosity... While recently I posted new benchmark results of Intel Haswell to Ice Lake laptop performance, what about going further back like to the days of Nehalem? Here is that comparison of Core i7 Nehalem to Core i7 Ice Lake including power / performance-per-Watt data, thermal, and performance-per-MHz data too. Enjoy this fun comparison for how the Intel mobile performance on Ubuntu has evolved over the past decade.

Librem 5 "Birch" Linux Smartphones Begin Shipping To Consumers

Phoronix - Thu, 11/28/2019 - 04:25
While coming a few weeks later and two months after the original "shipping" of Librem 5 smartphones, the Librem 5 Birch batch has begun shipping to actual consumers who pre-ordered the privacy-minded Linux smartphone...

Flatpak 1.5.1 Prepares For Protected/Authenticated Downloads - Future App Purchasing

Phoronix - Wed, 11/27/2019 - 23:46
Flatpak 1.5.1 was released today as a new development release for this Linux application sandboxing technology. With Flatpak 1.5.1 it also begins laying the groundwork for a future payments system around Flathub as what's starting off for allowing donation-based software acquisition but could ultimately turn into a paid app store...

AMDVLK 2019.Q4.3 Released With New Extensions + Navi 14 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 11/27/2019 - 23:15
AMD's Vulkan driver team has today volleyed their third open-source "AMDVLK" code drop of the quarter. This AMDVLK 2019.Q4.3 driver comes with new extensions as well as Navi 14 enablement...

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