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GNOME Launching A Community Engagement Challenge With $65k+ In Cash/Prizes

Phoronix - Wed, 04/08/2020 - 06:00
The GNOME Foundation in cooperation with Endless has launched their first Community Engagement Challenge where they are offering up many prizes and cash...

Some Older Intel Tablets Finally Seeing Working Touchscreen With Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Wed, 04/08/2020 - 03:10
While Intel's open-source Linux hardware support is extremely good even in time for launch day of not only for their server / data center products but also desktop and mobile platforms, occasionally there are exceptions. One of the biggest exceptions over the past decade has been the Bay Trail support sometimes taking years to see fixes or finishing up areas of the support. The latest example of this is some Intel Bay Trail and Cherry Trail tablets finally seeing working/reliable touchscreen support on Linux 5.7...

Vulkan 1.2.137 Specification Brings Many Clarifications + Fixes, Faster HTML Doc Loading

Phoronix - Wed, 04/08/2020 - 01:26
Less than one month ago came the big Vulkan 1.2.135 update with official ray-tracing capabilities and other extension promotions. Out today is Vulkan 1.2.137 with a whole lot of clarifications and fixes...

NVIDIA 440.82 Linux Driver Brings DOOM Eternal Performance Fix, Linux 5.6 Compatibility

Phoronix - Tue, 04/07/2020 - 23:59
NVIDIA today released the 440.82 Linux binary display driver as their newest stable update in the current 440 driver series...

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