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AMD Shows First Glimpse Of Radeon RX 6000 Series Graphics Card

Phoronix - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 05:44
Ahead of the RDNA 2 / Navi 2 reveal on October 28, AMD has shown off the first official render of a Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card...

GNOME DMA-BUF Screencasting Now Limited To Intel Drivers Due To Bugs Elsewhere

Phoronix - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 05:31
Prior to tagging Mutter 3.38 for this week's GNOME 3.38 desktop release there was a last-minute change around the DMA-BUF screencasting feature...

"Microsoft Wants To Create A Complete Virtualization Stack With Linux"

Phoronix - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 03:28
Microsoft engineers are sending out new kernel patches in looking to expand the Linux support around the Microsoft Hypervisor (Hyper-V)...

The future of virtual conferences, service mesh, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 02:00

As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends. Here are some of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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Radeon GPU Profiler 1.8 Released With Redesigned Developer Panel

Phoronix - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 01:41
AMD today released a new version of their Radeon GPU Profiler utility for Linux and Windows systems for profiling games/applications on Radeon graphics hardware under both Linux and Windows...

Mesa 20.3 + Linux 5.9 Is In Great Shape Against AMDVLK, AMDGPU-PRO

Phoronix - Mon, 09/14/2020 - 22:48
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" with its ACO back-end by default is now winning nearly across the board against not only AMD's AMDVLK Vulkan driver with LLVM back-end but also AMDGPU-PRO with the proprietary shader compiler back-end.

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