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DXVK 1.5.1 Released With D3D9 Performance Improvements, Many Game Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 01/10/2020 - 04:13
DXVK 1.5.1 is out today as the latest feature update for this project implementing Direct3D 9/10/11 over Vulkan for faster Wine/Proton Linux gaming performance. This is the first update since the big DXVK 1.5 release that integrated D9VK for D3D9 support...

Mesa 19.3.2 Released With All The Intel + AMD Driver Fixes From Over The Holidays

Phoronix - Fri, 01/10/2020 - 02:51
There hasn't been a new Mesa stable release in a number of weeks due to the Christmas and New Year's holidays but that changed today with Mesa 19.3.2 as the first significant point release of Mesa 19.3...

GNOME 3.34.3 Released To Offer Up More Fixes Ahead Of GNOME 3.36

Phoronix - Fri, 01/10/2020 - 00:06
GNOME has continued its recent trend of offering more point releases to existing stable series for filling the void between the six-month feature releases. Out today is GNOME 3.34.3 with all of the latest fixes, many of which were back-ported from the currently under development GNOME 3.36...

It Looks Like GCC's Long-Awaited Git Conversion Could Happen This Weekend

Phoronix - Thu, 01/09/2020 - 22:28
The long in development process of converting GCC's SVN repository to Git for using this modern distributed revision control system for developing the GNU Compiler Collection in the 2020s may finally be complete in the days ahead...

EXT4 Gets More Direct I/O Optimizations - Can Help Some Database Workloads Around ~140%+

Phoronix - Thu, 01/09/2020 - 20:19
A few days ago I wrote about a big improvement to write performance for EXT4's Direct I/O code path but that is not the only DIO optimization coming for Linux 5.6. Thanks to IBM, another big EXT4 DIO boost can be found for database workloads...

Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 Is Tracking Linux 5.4

Phoronix - Thu, 01/09/2020 - 18:05
Oracle has released a developer preview of their forthcoming Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 to Oracle Linux users, the company's spin of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With Oracle UEK 6, Linux 5.4 serves as the new base...

Bootlin Wraps Up Feature Development On The Allwinner Cedrus VPU Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 01/09/2020 - 17:09
While the Allwinner VPU "Cedrus" video decode driver is a wonderful success of open-source third-party work expanding Linux's multimedia hardware acceleration capabilities, consulting firm Bootlin who spearheaded this driver is for now at least is ending feature development on this driver...

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