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The 5 Best Graphical Backup Tools for Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Tecmint - Tue, 07/14/2020 - 14:58
In this guide, we review the best graphical user interface backup tools for Ubuntu and Linux Mint operating systems. These Linux backup tools are also installable and work on Ubuntu flavors such as Lubuntu,

RADV Driver Lands Support For Vulkan Extended Dynamic State

Phoronix - Tue, 07/14/2020 - 09:08
The newest addition to Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan driver is support for the recently published VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state extension...

Radeon RADV+ACO Vulkan Performance Is In Great Shape For Mesa 20.2

Phoronix - Mon, 07/13/2020 - 22:10
With the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" recently switching its default to the ACO shader compiler back-end that is developed with the support of Valve rather than the existing AMDGPU LLVM back-end that is the official open-source AMD shader compiler solution, here are some fresh Linux gaming benchmarks of the RADV driver on the in-development Mesa 20.2 comparing the now-default RADV+ACO configuration against that of the RADV AMDGPU LLVM back-end.

systemd-oomd Looks Like It Will Come Together For systemd 247

Phoronix - Mon, 07/13/2020 - 21:39
With systemd 246 releasing soon, it looks like the new out-of-memory daemon will be merged shortly afterwards in allowing sufficient time for testing ahead of systemd 247...

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