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Microsoft Announces Direct3D 12 For Linux / WSL2

Phoronix - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 00:42
As part of bringing GPU acceleration to WSL2 that was announced at today's virtual Build conference, Microsoft just published a blog post with more details including their port of Direct3D 12 for Linux...

Microsoft To Support GPU Acceleration, Linux GUI Apps On WSL2

Phoronix - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 00:09
Microsoft's virtual Build conference kicked off this morning and this year brings another big improvement on the Windows Subsystem for Linux front.....

OpenBSD 6.7 Released With FFS2 Improvements, Better Raspberry Pi + PineBook Pro Support

Phoronix - Tue, 05/19/2020 - 23:55
OpenBSD 6.7 was released this morning as the newest version of this security-minded BSD operating system...

GCC 10 vs. Clang 10 Compiler Performance On AMD Zen 2 + Intel Cascade Lake

Phoronix - Tue, 05/19/2020 - 22:40
We delivered many benchmarks of Clang 10.0 on various CPUs following that updated LLVM compiler stack release earlier this year. With GCC 10 released earlier this month, we have begun our benchmarking of this annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection. First up is a look at the GCC 9 vs. GCC 10 vs. LLVM Clang 10 compiler performance on AMD Zen 2 and Intel Cascade Lake systems.

SD 8.0 Specification To Allow 4GB/s Transfer Rates By Leveraging PCIe 4.0

Phoronix - Tue, 05/19/2020 - 22:28
The SD 8.0 specification was announced today for SD Express memory cards to allow up to 4GB/s transfer rates by building off the PCIe 4.0 architecture...

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