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GNOME 3.38.1 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 10/08/2020 - 21:41
Following last month's release of GNOME 3.38, out today is GNOME 3.38.1 as the first point release to this H2'2020 Linux desktop environment...

OpenCL 1.2 Support Merged For Mesa's Gallium3D Clover While OpenCL 3.0 Is Being Tackled

Phoronix - Thu, 10/08/2020 - 20:25
With this quarter's Mesa 20.3 the Gallium3D "Clover" state tracker providing OpenCL support finally can handle version 1.2!..

DMEMFS Is A Proposed Virtual File-System For Linux To Help Save Memory

Phoronix - Thu, 10/08/2020 - 19:00
Tencent developers have proposed "DMEMFS" as a virtual file-system with the intent of helping to save system memory on large servers such as in public cloud environments...

AMD Renoir On Linux Could Soon See Lower Power Consumption During Video Playback

Phoronix - Thu, 10/08/2020 - 16:30
It looks like for Linux 5.11 there could be lower power usage during video playback on DCN 2.1 hardware, namely AMD Renoir...

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