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Radeon Linux 5.6 Changes Begin Queuing - Better Power Management, Adds DMCUB Controller

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 08:06
While the Linux 5.5 merge window has just been over for less than one week, AMD has already submitted their first batch of feature updates to DRM-Next of new graphics driver material aiming for Linux 5.6 early next year...

GNOME Shell 3.35.2 Begins Launching Spawned Processes Within Systemd Scopes

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 04:36
Out today is a new development release of GNOME Shell on the road to GNOME 3.36 in March...

Intel's OpenSWR OpenGL Software Rasterizer Pulls In Tessellator From Microsoft Direct3D Code

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 02:49
Intel's OpenSWR software rasterizer for OpenGL as an alternative to the likes of LLVMpipe could soon have OpenGL 4.0 and is a step closer to that code thanks to... Microsoft code...

NVIDIA 440.44 Linux Driver Brings Fixes, __GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE Honored With Vulkan

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 02:03
Out today is NVIDIA 440.44 as the latest stable Linux driver update in their new long-lived driver series...

Windows Subsystem For Linux Performance At The End Of 2019

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 00:32
Recently I wrapped up some benchmarks looking at the performance of Ubuntu on Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux comparing WSL on Windows 10 Build 18362 (May 2019 Update) and then both WSL and WSL2 performance using the Windows 10 Build 19008 Insider's Preview (what will come as Windows 10 20H1 update) for looking at where the WSL performance is heading. Additionally, looking at the bare metal performance of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for which the WSL instances were based plus Ubuntu 19.10. As well, for the Windows-compatible tests also looking at how the Windows performance itself was outside of WSL/WSL2.

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