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AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs. Intel Core i9 10900K Linux Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 21:30
Following the 130+ benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 3000XT series earlier in the week looking at the CPU/system performance on Ubuntu Linux, here is our first look at the Linux gaming performance with putting the Ryzen 9 3900XT up head-to-head against the Intel Core i9 10900K.

GCC 11 Compiler Lands Intel Sapphire Rapids + Alder Lake Support

Phoronix - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 19:34
Landing in the GNU Compiler Collection 11 (GCC 11) codebase this morning is the Sapphire Rapids and Alder Lake enablement...

Intel Media Driver Q2-2020 Ships With Better Tiger Lake Support

Phoronix - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 19:17
Intel has shipped its second quarter open-source Media Driver release that provides accelerated video encoding/decoding capabilities on Linux systems...

More Accurate Load Tracking Being Worked On For the ACPI CPPC CPUFreq Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 19:04
The ACPI CPPC (Collaborative Processor Performance Control) Linux CPUFreq driver continues to be improved upon...

Wayland-Info Spun From Weston Code For Offering Wayland Helper Tool

Phoronix - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 15:12
Wayland's Weston compositor has provided a weston-info utility to display information on supported Wayland extensions and versioning along with other details of the Wayland compositor environment. That utility is now being spun out as wayland-info as a Wayland compositor-agnostic utility for displaying this information...

Add videos as wallpaper on your Linux desktop

opensource.com - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 15:02

The Linux desktop is a beautiful thing, but if you're tired of boring wallpaper, then you should try wallset, a command-line utility allowing you to set a video as your wallpaper. Wallset can also help you manage your wallpaper collection so you can conveniently make changes as often as you want.

Installation

First, you must have the following software installed on your system:


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