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Red Hat Is Still Hiring To Work On The Linux Desktop + Open-Source Graphics

Phoronix - Thu, 11/07/2019 - 01:58
Red Hat continues hiring developers to work on the open-source upstream graphics stack and other Linux desktop innovations...

Mesa 19.2.3 Released With Many Fixes While Waiting For Mesa 19.3 In A Few Weeks

Phoronix - Thu, 11/07/2019 - 01:18
Mesa 19.3 is expected to be out around the end of November as the next feature update to Mesa3D, but in the interim Mesa 19.2.3 has been released as the newest bi-weekly bug-fix release...

RADV Lands VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control For Exposing Wave32 On Navi/GFX10

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 21:26
Valve open-source developer Samuel Pitoiset has landed his work enabling the Vulkan VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control extension that for GFX10/Navi is being used to expose Wave32 capabilities...

Arm Porting LLVM's Hardware-Assisted Address Sanitizer To GCC

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 20:21
The latest of LLVM's "sanitizers" being ported for the GCC compiler stack is the hardware-assisted address sanitizer (HWASAN)...

UBports Begins Offering Ubuntu Touch 64-Bit ARM Images

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 19:49
While Ubuntu Touch has run on AArch64 hardware, to date their builds have been focused on 32-bit mode support. Fortunately, for select devices, they are now spinning 64-bit images...

How to Install PHP 7.4 on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 18:26
PHP, a recursive acronym for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, is a popular server-side scripting language used in web development for creating powerful and dynamic websites. In this article, you will learn how to install PHP...

Additional Intel "ANV" Vulkan Driver Performance Numbers For Gen11 Ice Lake Graphics

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 18:19
Complementing the earlier Intel Ice Lake "Gen11" graphics comparison and the Windows vs. Linux Ice Lake graphics driver numbers, here are some additional Vulkan data points in different Linux and Steam Play games...

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