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Intel's Vulkan Driver Squeezes Another Optimization Into Mesa 20.0

Phoronix - Sat, 01/25/2020 - 20:49
Patches written two months ago for Intel's ANV open-source Vulkan driver have now been merged ahead of the imminent Mesa 20.0 feature freeze and branching...

Firefox Is Seeing Work On Wayland VA-API Video Acceleration

Phoronix - Sat, 01/25/2020 - 20:28
Some exciting news this week for Firefox users running on Wayland.....

RadeonSI Introduces A Live Shader Cache With Mesa 20.0

Phoronix - Sat, 01/25/2020 - 20:19
In addition to the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver's on-disk shader cache and in-memory shader cache there is now a "live shader cache" to help with deduplication of compiled shader objects...

OPNsense 20.1-RC1 Released For Popular BSD-Based Firewall / Routing OS

Phoronix - Sat, 01/25/2020 - 20:00
The release candidate of OPNsense 20.1 is available this weekend, the FreeBSD/HardenedBSD-based networking/firewall OS that forked from pfSense now a half-decade ago...

What 2020 brings for the developer, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Sat, 01/25/2020 - 16:00

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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Use tmux to create the console of your dreams

opensource.com - Sat, 01/25/2020 - 16:00

Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using.


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WineD3D Vulkan Back-End Is Back In The Works Following Wine 5.0

Phoronix - Sat, 01/25/2020 - 13:06
One of the features that didn't materialize in time for Wine 5.0 as the annual stable Wine release was the work-in-progress Vulkan back-end to WineD3D. Rather than going from Direct3D to OpenGL as WineD3D currently does, there has been efforts to introduce a Vulkan back-end similar to the likes of DXVK...

DXVK 1.5.2 Released With Many Game Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 01/25/2020 - 08:46
Coming a few weeks past DXVK 1.5.1 is now version 1.5.2 and it brings with it quite a number of improvements...

Weston 8.0 Released With DRM HDCP Support, EGL Partial Updates, Headless OpenGL

Phoronix - Sat, 01/25/2020 - 08:08
Weston 8.0 was released today as the newest version of this reference Wayland compositor...

NVIDIA Contributes Much Less To The Linux Kernel Than Intel Or AMD

Phoronix - Sat, 01/25/2020 - 04:39
Yesterday I put together some statistics on the AMD vs. Intel contributions to the upstream Linux kernel during the 2010s, but a request coming in off that was how do NVIDIA's contributions compare. Here is a look at the NVIDIA contributions to the Linux kernel over the past decade...

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