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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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