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Fedora 31 Performance Is Still Sliding In The Wrong Direction - Benchmarks Against Ubuntu 19.10 + Clear Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 21:04
The performance of Fedora 30 on multiple systems has generally been coming up short compared to the likes of Ubuntu, Clear Linux, and openSUSE Tumbleweed. With this week's release of Fedora 31 I was hopeful that the performance would be more competitive to other prominent Linux distributions, but sadly that doesn't appear to be the case. Here are some initial benchmarks of Fedora Workstation 31 compared to Fedora Workstation 30, Clear Linux 31450, and Ubuntu 19.10.

Linux Mint Pulling In MPV-Based Celluloid Media Player + Dropping Last Mono Dependency

Phoronix - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 20:38
Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" will be out before Christmas and continuing to further refine this desktop focused Linux distribution...

SDL Picks Up ARM Optimizations For Helping Games On Devices Like The Raspberry Pi

Phoronix - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 19:51
Gaming on ARM-based boards like the Raspberry Pi will soon have the potential for running much better thanks to a series of ARM Assembly optimizations that were just merged into SDL2...

VirtualBox Guest Shared Folder Support Coming To The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 18:57
The mainline Linux kernel continues to see better support for Oracle VM VirtualBox with more of the guest drivers reaching the mainline kernel to provide a vastly better out-of-the-box experience...

Qt 3D Studio 2.5 Released With Stereoscopic Rendering, Autodesk Maya Export

Phoronix - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 18:44
The Qt Company has released version Qt 3D Studio 2.5 of their 3D UI creation software originally derived from code that NVIDIA volleyed as open-source...

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