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Fedora Developers Looking To Change The Default Text Editor From Vi To Nano

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2019 - 01:30
Fedora will be adding the Nano text editor to their default Fedora Workstation installs as complementary to Vi but their stakeholders intend to submit a system-wide proposal that would change the default installed editor from Vi to Nano...

Google To Require "Designed For Chromebook" Devices Support Fwupd Firmware Updates

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2019 - 00:07
Beginning at the start of the year it looks like Google will be requiring hardware vendors to support firmware updating on Linux via Fwupd with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) if they wish to carry the "Designed For Chromebook" label...

CrossOver 19 Enters Beta With Better Microsoft Office Support On Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 11/18/2019 - 23:43
CodeWeavers' Jeremy White has announced that CrossOver 19 is now in beta for existing customers of this Wine-based software for running Windows programs on Linux and macOS...

AMD Announces Radeon Open Compute ROCm 3.0

Phoronix - Mon, 11/18/2019 - 22:30
AMD just sent out their press release for SuperComputing 19 week in Denver. It turns out being released for SC19 is the latest major iteration of Radeon Open Compute, ROCm 3.0...

23-Way Graphics Card Comparison With Shadow of the Tomb Raider On Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 11/18/2019 - 22:05
Earlier this month Feral Interactive released the Linux port of Shadow of the Tomb Raider. For those wondering about the AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce performance for this Vulkan-powered Linux game port, here are benchmark results on 23 different graphics cards.

Vulkan 1.1.128 Released With Performance Query Extension

Phoronix - Mon, 11/18/2019 - 20:31
Vulkan 1.1.128 is out with various corrections and clarifications to this graphics/compute API specification but it also comes with one exciting new extension...

GCC 10 Feature Development Is Over - Now The Focus Turns To Bug Fixing

Phoronix - Mon, 11/18/2019 - 20:18
GCC 10 has moved to its next stage of development that shifts away from feature work to instead general bug fixing with hopes of shipping the GNU Compiler Collection 10 release in the months ahead...

Schedutil Frequency Invariance Revised For Better Intel Performance + Power Efficiency

Phoronix - Mon, 11/18/2019 - 17:29
SUSE developer Giovanni Gherdovich has sent out the latest patches on supporting frequency invariance within the kernel's scheduler code and ultimately making use of it for select Intel CPUs to yield not only better raw performance but also power efficiency...

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