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GNOME 3.36 Is Looking To Be Another Nice Evolutionary Upgrade To The GNOME Desktop

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2020 - 02:56
GNOME 3.36 is due for release in just over one month's time and is shaping up to be another great release building upon all of the polishing and other evolutionary improvements we've seen particularly over the past two or three years...

AMDGPU Linux Driver Preparing To Better Support Modern HDR/OLED Displays

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2020 - 01:06
It looks like with the Linux 5.7 kernel cycle this spring there should be proper backlight support when using this AMD Radeon kernel graphics driver with modern HDR/OLED displays...

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Offers Incredible Linux Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 02/07/2020 - 22:00
If you are looking for the absolute best single-socket workstation performance for Linux, there has already been the Threadripper 3970X that easily outperforms the likes of the Core i9 10980XE as Intel's top-end HEDT product, but now the Threadripper 3990X is shipping. The Threadripper 3990X is AMD's first 64-core / 128-thread desktop/workstation processor and will love your multi-threaded workloads from code compilation to content creation. As shown in our benchmarks, this single CPU is indeed faster than $20k worth of Intel Xeon Platinum CPUs.

System76 Launches Impressive Line Of Thelio Major Linux Workstations Powered By AMD Ryzen Threadripper - Including The 3990X

Phoronix - Fri, 02/07/2020 - 22:00
One of the complaints we here most frequently about the Linux-focused PC vendors is that they tend to most often offer just Intel-based hardware. Well, for those wanting a pre-built Linux workstation powered by AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X / 3970X / 3990X, System76 has launched a new line of their Thelio Major desktops powered by these HEDT CPUs.

Linux 5.6 Flipping On GPU Reset Support For AMD Renoir + Radeon Navi

Phoronix - Fri, 02/07/2020 - 19:00
Last week the main set of kernel graphics driver improvements were merged while today is an interesting secondary batch of changes for the in-development Linux 5.6 kernel...

New Raspbian Release Brings File Manager Improvements, Mesa 19.3.2 For OpenGL ES 3.1

Phoronix - Fri, 02/07/2020 - 18:47
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced their first feature update to their Debian-based Raspbian operating system of 2020...

DXVK 1.5.4 Brings Various Game Fixes For Direct3D Over Vulkan

Phoronix - Fri, 02/07/2020 - 18:14
Philip Rebohle has released another update to DXVK 1.5, in time for any weekend gamers wanting to enjoy the latest Direct3D-over-Vulkan experience...

Introducing Zuul for improved CI/CD

opensource.com - Fri, 02/07/2020 - 16:02

Jenkins is a marvelous piece of software. As an execution and automation engine, it's one of the best you're going to find. Jenkins serves as a key component in countless continuous integration (CI) systems, and this is a testament to the value of what its community has built over the years. But that's what it is­­—a component. Jenkins is not a CI system itself; it just runs things for you. It does that really well and has a variety of built-ins and a vibrant ecosystem of plugins to help you tell it what to run, when, and where.


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Customize your internet with an open source search engine

opensource.com - Fri, 02/07/2020 - 16:01

A long time ago, the internet was small enough to be indexed by a few people who gathered the names and locations of all websites and listed them each by topic on a page or in a printed book. As the World Wide Web network grew, the "web rings" convention developed, in which sites with a similar theme or topic or sensibility banded together to form a circular path to each member. A visitor to any site in the ring could click a button to proceed to the next or previous site in the ring to discover new sites relevant to their interest.


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