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X-Plane 11.50 Flight Simulator Beta Released With Vulkan API Support

Phoronix - Fri, 04/03/2020 - 01:05
For years we have been looking forward to X-Plane with a new Vulkan renderer to replace its aging OpenGL renderer. Finally today the X-Plane 11.50 Beta has been made public for this realistic flight simulator that supports Metal on Apple platforms and Vulkan everywhere else...

GNOME 3.36.1 Released With First Batch Of Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 23:35
Following last month's release of GNOME 3.36 with its many new features and performance improvements, GNOME 3.36.1 is out today with the first batch of updates/fixes to this H1'2020 open-source desktop...

Mesa OpenGL Threading Enabled For More Games Yielding Sizable Performance Jumps

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 23:02
Well known open-source AMD OpenGL driver developer Marek Olšák has enabled more Linux games to run with Mesa's GLTHREAD functionality enabled for helping with the performance...

LXD 4.0 LTS Released For Offering The Latest Linux Containers Experience

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 21:00
Ahead of the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release later this month, the Canonical folks working on LXD for Linux containers and VMs have released LXD 4.0 LTS...

Btrfs File-System Updates Land In Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 20:46
SUSE's David Sterba sent in the Btrfs file-system updates this week for the Linux 5.7 kernel...

LLVM Plumbs Support For Intel Golden Cove's New SERIALIZE Instruction

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 19:07
Yesterday we noted Intel's programming reference manual being updated with new Golden Cove instructions for Sapphire Rapids and Alder Lake and with that Intel's open-source developers have begun pushing their changes to the compilers. The latest updates add TSXLDTRK, a new HYBRID bit for Core+Atom hybrd CPUs, and a new SERIALIZE instruction. After GCC was receiving the patch attention yesterday, LLVM is getting its attention today...

Linux 5.6.2 Released With Fix For The IWLWIFI Intel WiFi Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 18:31
Basically a half-week after Linux 5.6 shipped as stable, we are up to the second point release of it...

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