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Chromium's Ozone Wayland Back-End Is Now Considered Beta, Aiming To Ship Next Year

Phoronix - Thu, 12/05/2019 - 13:04
For years there has been work on a Wayland back-end to Ozone, the Google component for abstracting user-interface elements and input/window handling among other tasks across platforms. It looks like in 2020 the Ozone Wayland support will be in good standing and promoted out of beta...

Firefox 71 Linux Performance Isn't Looking All That Great

Phoronix - Thu, 12/05/2019 - 09:25
With each new release of Firefox we set out to see how the performance is looking on the Linux desktop. One discovery we've made is that when using Intel's Clear Linux the Firefox performance is a lot more competitive to Google Chrome than we traditionally see on Ubuntu Linux. But with Firefox 71 we're seeing the performance trending lower compared to Firefox 69 and 70...

Mesa 19.3 Might Release Next Week But For Now There's RC6 With Several ACO+RADV Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 12/05/2019 - 05:56
Mesa 19.3 continues running behind schedule but stands chances for releasing next week if the lingering blocker bugs are closed...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER Linux Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 12/05/2019 - 03:33
For those looking to spend less than $200 USD on a graphics card, the recently launched NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER offers great value starting at $159 USD and working well with the NVIDIA Linux driver for providing decent 1080p Linux gaming performance as well as OpenCL / CUDA support. Here are benchmarks of the GTX 1650 SUPER alongside a total of 18 lower-end/mid-range AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards on Ubuntu Linux.

Qt 5.14 On Track For Releasing Next Week With New Scenegraph Renderer, Better HiDPI

Phoronix - Thu, 12/05/2019 - 01:12
While missing the original release target of the end of November, The Qt Company is buttoning up Qt 5.14 for debut next week. Today, however, marks the release candidate availability for those wanting to test out this forthcoming Qt5 release prior to more of the development efforts shifting to Qt 6.0...

AMD's GPUOpen Releases Vulkan Memory Allocator 2.3

Phoronix - Thu, 12/05/2019 - 00:11
AMD's GPUOpen team has released their first official update to the open-source Vulkan Memory Allocator project in nearly one year...

Canonical Announces "Ubuntu Pro" For AWS

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2019 - 23:52
Looking to further capitalize upon the popularity of Ubuntu in the cloud, Canonical today announced Ubuntu Pro premium images for Amazon's EC2 cloud...

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