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AMDGPU Fixes For Linux 5.5 Include AMDKFD For PowerPC, Fix For Old ATI R100/R200 GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2019 - 08:00
Following last week's big batch of DRM graphics driver updates for the Linux 5.5 merge window, AMD and the community engaging in Linux 5.5 testing have now sent in their first round of fixes for this next version of the Linux kernel...

Linux Mint 19.3 Enters Beta With HiDPI Support Finally Nearing Completion, New Default Apps

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2019 - 03:52
The beta release of Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" is now available for testing in the default Cinnamon desktop flavor as well as MATE and Xfce spins...

GNOME Shell + Mutter Had A Busy November With Some Big Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2019 - 03:27
The GNOME developers were particularly busy last month with various improvements to GNOME Shell and Mutter for increasing the usability of the desktop and optimizing its performance / power-savings...

Mir 1.6 Released With New Wayland, DispmanX Platform Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2019 - 03:02
Mir 1.6 is out today with the latest batch of features for this Ubuntu-focused display server that offers Wayland client compatibility...

Amazon Talks Up Big Performance Gains For Their 7nm Graviton2 CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2019 - 00:35
We weren't too enthusiastic about the performance of Amazon's initial Graviton ARM-based CPU cores offered via their Elastic Compute Cloud, but their next-gen Gravin2 CPUs that are "coming soon" should be much more capable for good ARM Linux performance...

DXVK 1.4.6 Released With More Game Fixes For Direct3D 10/11 Over Vulkan

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2019 - 00:01
DXVK 1.4.6 is out this morning as the first update in two weeks for this widely-used project allowing Direct3D 10/11 games to run atop Vulkan on Linux systems with Wine/Proton...

Phoronix Test Suite 9.2 Released For Open-Source, Cross-Platform Benchmarking

Phoronix - Tue, 12/03/2019 - 23:30
Phoronix Test Suite 9.2-Hurdal is available today as the newest quarterly feature release to the Phoronix Test Suite for automated, cross-platform and open-source benchmarking...

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