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RenderDoc 1.5 Released For This Leading OpenGL / Vulkan / Direct3D Open-Source Debugger

Phoronix - Thu, 10/10/2019 - 12:05
RenderDoc has already been the leading open-source graphics debugging tool for OpenGL / Vulkan / Direct3D across multiple platforms and it continues only getting more useful with each new feature release...

Google Opens Up "SchedViz" To Visualize Linux Kernel Scheduling Behavior

Phoronix - Thu, 10/10/2019 - 06:38
Google's newest open-source contribution for benefiting the Linux kernel is SchedViz...

Proton 4.11-7 Released With Controller Improvements, D9VK/DXVK Updates

Phoronix - Thu, 10/10/2019 - 05:32
Valve has released Proton 4.11-7 as the newest version of their Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

NixOS 19.09 Released With Xfce 4.14 Packages, GNOME 3 Updates

Phoronix - Thu, 10/10/2019 - 01:03
We are hitting the autumn Linux distribution update season and out today is NixOS 19.09 as the latest installment for this operating system built around the functional Nix package manager...

RMS: No Radical Changes In GNU Project

Phoronix - Thu, 10/10/2019 - 00:18
With Stallman sticking around as head of the GNU and with that the Free Software Foundation re-evaluating their GNU relationship, Richard Stallman is already saying there will be no major changes to the project he founded...

The Mitigation Impact Difference On AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs. Intel Core i9 9900K Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 23:10
Last week I shared benchmark results of the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs. Intel Core i9 9900K in 400+ benchmarks in the largest comparison ever for these two competing ~$500 USD processors. If that wasn't enough, I repeated the hundreds of CPU/system benchmarks again but without any of the recent CPU security mitigations in place to see how the situation would have played out pre-2018.

Qt 5.14 Rolls To Beta Stage With Graphics API Independent Scenegraph Renderer

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 21:35
The Qt Company has shipped Qt 5.14 beta as the newest version of the Qt5 tool-kit and their last real feature update as Qt 5.15 will focus more on bug fixes as development is shifting towards Qt 6.0 due out in one year's time...

KDE + Qt 5.14 To Better Behave With Context Loss Around NVIDIA's Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 21:06
Currently when resuming from systemd suspend or switching back to the KDE desktop from an alternate VT, it's possible with the NVIDIA proprietary driver to see screen corruption or leakage of previous screen contents to areas of the lock screen / desktop. This annoying issue is now being better addressed with Qt 5.14...

Ubuntu 19.10 Makes It So Easy To Have Your Desktop Running Off A ZFS File-System

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 18:55
As we reported this weekend, the Ubuntu desktop installer "Ubiquity" has landed the much anticipated ZFS install support. That's now propagated through to the Ubuntu 19.10 daily ISOs and does indeed make for a quick and easy setup of Ubuntu Eoan running off a root ZFS file-system...

Intel Adds GPU-Accelerated Memory Copy Support To FFmpeg

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 18:40
Intel engineers have contributed GPU-accelerated memory copy support to FFmpeg when making use of their preferred video decode implementation...

Intel ANV & Radeon RADV Vulkan Drivers Tacking On More Extensions With Mesa 19.3

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 18:24
There still is another month until the feature freeze for Mesa 19.3 to end out 2019 and it will be a big one...

GNOME Shell & Mutter 3.34.1 Deliver On Their Prominent Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 18:09
There weren't out in time for yesterday's formal GNOME 3.34.1 point release, but GNOME Shell and Mutter have out their prominent point releases today that are exciting on the correction front...

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