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AMD Pushes Updated AMDVLK Vulkan Code Following Adrenalin 2020 Unveil

Phoronix - Fri, 12/13/2019 - 09:28
Earlier this week AMD unveiled the Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition driver and we await a Radeon Software for Linux / AMDGPU-PRO driver update for Linux users on supported distributions. But AMD has begun pushing some updated AMDVLK open-source Vulkan driver code ahead of a possible tagged release in the next few days...

Mesa 19.3 Released With Big Updates For Intel's Open-Source Drivers, Valve ACO Option

Phoronix - Fri, 12/13/2019 - 04:51
After a few weeks worth of delays due to blocker bugs the release of Mesa 19.3 is out today as a big end-of-year upgrade to the open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux systems. Intel and AMD Radeon driver changes largely dominate the work as always but there is a growing number of embedded driver changes and other enhancements for this crucial piece to the open-source 3D ecosystem...

Vim 8.2 Released With Support For Popup Windows

Phoronix - Fri, 12/13/2019 - 01:09
For those preferring the Vim text editor, Vim 8.2 is out today and its primary new feature is support for "popup windows" and for demonstrating those new capabilities is even a new Vim-based game called Killer Sheep...

VirtualBox 6.1 Released With Better 3D Support, UI Enhancements

Phoronix - Fri, 12/13/2019 - 00:56
Oracle has released VM VirtualBox 6.1 with better integration around the public Oracle Cloud, continued work on their new 3D support brought forward in VirtualBox 6.0, user-interface improvements, and much more...

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