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Mesa 19.3.1 Released With A Few Intel + Radeon Graphics Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 12/19/2019 - 04:23
While Mesa 19.3 was just released last week, Mesa 19.3.1 is now available rather than on its bi-weekly release cadence in order to avoid the Christmas and New Year's holidays...

MintBox3 Now Shipping As Fan-Less Small Form Factor Linux Desktop

Phoronix - Thu, 12/19/2019 - 04:10
Coinciding with the release of Linux Mint 19.3 is the debut of the MintBox3 Linux Mint pre-loaded small form factor desktop computer that is fan-less...

Canonical Releases Multipass 1.0 As "A Mini-Cloud On Your Workstation"

Phoronix - Thu, 12/19/2019 - 00:56
It was just last week that Canonical released Multipass 0.9 as their means of easily spinning up Ubuntu virtual machines across Linux / Windows / macOS. Today Multipass 1.0.0 made the surprisingly fast debut and marks their first stable release...

GNOME's Mutter Now Batches Clipping Rectangles For Better Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 12/19/2019 - 00:45
After recently taking some time off of work, Canonical's Daniel van Vugt has been back on the GNOME bug hunt in the continuing quest of optimizing its performance. This GNOME 3.36 cycle is particularly important considering the upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release...

AMD Sends Updated Zen CPU Microcode To Linux-Firmware Tree

Phoronix - Wed, 12/18/2019 - 23:41
New AMD Family 17h (Zen) CPU family microcode was merged today into linux-firmware.git...

Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" Released With Better HiDPI Support, App Changes

Phoronix - Wed, 12/18/2019 - 21:49
In meeting their plans for shipping Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" before Christmas, the Xfce / MATE / Cinnamon editions of this updated Linux distribution shipped this morning...

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