Saturday, March 6, 2021

Install HP Print Drivers HPLIP 3.21.2 on Ubuntu 20.04, 20.10

    HPLIP is a free, open-source HP-developed solution for printing, scanning, and faxing with HP inkjet and laser based printers in Linux.


Drivers HPLIP 3.21.2 Changelog: 

Added support for following new Distro's:

  • Fedora 33
  • Manjaro 20.2
  • Debian 10.7
  • RHEL 8.3
  • RHEL 7.7
  • RHEL 7.8
  • RHEL 7.9

How to install Blender 2.92 released on Ubuntu 20.04, 20.10 via PPA

 Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.


Blender 2.92  highlights:

  • Multithreaded export of geometry, to improves performance in scene synchronization when there are many mesh, hair and volume objects.
  • GPU devices can now take over tiles that are currently being rendered by CPU threads to improve hybrid rendering performance.
  • NVIDIA OptiX
    • Hybrid rendering with CPU and GPU devices is now supported.
    • AO and Bevel shader nodes are now supported.
    • NVIDIA driver version must be 450 or newer, due to an upgrade to OptiX 7.1. This makes it possible to render more object instances.
  • Intel Iris and Xe GPUs can now be enabled for OpenCL rendering