DXVK 1.5.4 Brings Various Game Fixes For Direct3D Over Vulkan
Philip Rebohle has released another update to DXVK 1.5, in time for any weekend gamers wanting to enjoy the latest Direct3D-over-Vulkan experience...
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Aims To Enhance The Certified OEM Experience From Its Installer
Booting the generic Ubuntu 20.04 LTS install media on a "Certified OEM" Ubuntu device could yield a different experience compared to running Ubuntu on a system not certified by Canonical...
Learn More About Systemd-Homed For How Linux Home Directories Are Being Reinvented
Coming with the imminent systemd 245 is systemd-homed that is making fundamental changes to Linux home directories. Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering presented at FOSDEM 2020 last weekend on systemd-homed and that video recording is now up...
The GNU + FSF Relationship Remains Complicated But They Are Drafting A Framework
Following last year's resignation of Richard Stallman from the Free Software Foundation under public pressure but remaining as head of the GNU Project for these tight-knit organizations, the two organizations have needed to figure out how to cooperate moving forward...
Linux 5.6 NFS Client Adds New Option To Use Cache If NFS Server Connection Lost
With the NFS client are a few new features with its code to be found in Linux 5.6...
GNOME Shell + Mutter See Big Last Minute Improvements With The GNOME 3.36 Beta
GNOME Shell and Mutter are out with their v3.35.90 releases today for the planned GNOME 3.36 beta...
AMD Contributing MIGraphX/ROCm Back-End To Microsoft's ONNX Runtime For Machine Learning
AMD is adding a MIGraphX/ROCm back-end to Microsoft's ONNX run-time for machine learning inferencing to allow for Radeon GPU acceleration...
Firefox 72 vs. Chrome 80 Browser Performance On Ubuntu Linux With AMD Ryzen
Given this week's release of Google Chrome 80, here are fresh benchmarks of Chrome 80 against Firefox 72 on Linux plus also a run with Firefox's WebRender option being enabled. This round of tests was under an Ubuntu 20.04 snapshot with AMD Ryzen processor and AMD Radeon VII graphics.
Linux 5.6 KVM Expands AMD APIC Virtualization Support With Dynamic APICv
A second round of KVM virtualization updates were sent out today for the Linux 5.6 merge window that is still open through the weekend...
Mozilla Developer Talks Up WGPU As Their WebGPU Implementation In Rust
Mozilla developer Dzmitry Malyshau has provided an update on WGPU, their implementation of WebGPU built off GFX-RS and Rust for next-gen graphics and compute on the web...