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Java 14 Reaches General Availability With Garbage Collection Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 05:06
Java 14 has reached general availability today with numerous updates to the JDK...

Unity 2020.1 Beta Released With Numerous Vulkan + Linux Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 02:34
Unity Tech has released the Unity 2020.1 game engine beta as their first quarterly update of the year...

Vulkan 1.2.135 Released With New + Promoted NVIDIA Extensions In Addition To Ray-Tracing

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 00:56
While the most prominent addition to today's Vulkan 1.2.135 update is the provisional ray-tracing support, there are also other new extensions with this update...

Fedora 32 Beta Released With EarlyOOM By Default, GNOME 3.36 Desktop

Phoronix - Tue, 03/17/2020 - 22:18
The beta of the highly anticipated Fedora 32 Linux distribution update is now available...

Vulkan Ray-Tracing Arrives With New Khronos Extension

Phoronix - Tue, 03/17/2020 - 21:00
While Vulkan has had NVIDIA's ray-tracing extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing) extension, coming out today is Vulkan's first formal ray-tracing extension for cross-vendor/driver adoption.

Intel Continues Working On Significant GPU Power Optimization For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 03/17/2020 - 20:08
A set of kernel patches to Intel's graphics driver helps improve the GPU power consumption to the extent of on Chrome OS seeing about 45 minutes extra battery life and several percent under the likes of Ubuntu Linux...

It's 2020 - Oracle Adds Meson Build System To Solaris

Phoronix - Tue, 03/17/2020 - 19:04
Oracle continues releasing new updates to Solaris 11.4 but there still aren't any public signs of life past v11.4. Out now is Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU19 with one interesting addition...

Fedora 33 Looking To Further Tighten Its Crypto Settings

Phoronix - Tue, 03/17/2020 - 15:50
For the Fedora 33 release later this year, Red Hat is looking at further enhancing and strengthening the cryptography settings/configuration of the OS...

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