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LibreOffice 7.0 Git Adds Skia-Based Text Rendering Support

Phoronix - Thu, 03/19/2020 - 02:35
With the in-development LibreOffice 7.0 one of the headlining changes is making use of Google's Skia library and with that is Vulkan rendering support. That initial implementation was using Skia to draw the UI while now it's also picking up text rendering responsibilities...

Linux 5.7 Getting Driver To Deal With More Buggy & Funky Looking Mice

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 23:48
Linux 5.7 continues the trend of the community taking up new drivers being created to support different peripherals under Linux that amount to dealing with quirky/buggy behavior of the hardware...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS A Nice Upgrade For AMD Ryzen Owners From 18.04 LTS

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 21:00
Particularly for those on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or derivative distributions based on the current long-term support base, moving to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS due out next month will yield some nice improvements particularly for those on newer platforms like the AMD Ryzen 3000 series. Here are some benchmarks at how the Ryzen 9 3900X performance is looking between Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu 19.10, and the current Ubuntu 20.04 LTS development snapshot.

Intel P-State Driver Preparing To Migrate From "Powersave" To Passive Schedutil Default

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 19:25
It looks like in the next one or two kernel releases we could see Intel transitioning their CPU frequency scaling governor default from the long-standing powersave to the modern schedutil governor. It's now believed schedutil should be at least as good as powersave...

Is Clear Linux Just A Toy Distribution By Intel?

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 18:57
A user experimenting with Clear Linux had an opinion to share on their mailing list and referred to it as a "toy" distribution and some of our readers have expressed similar opinions on it. Here is the response by one of the Intel developers central to Clear Linux's development...

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