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Raspberry Pi Announces RP2040 Chips For $1

Tue, 06/01/2021 - 18:10

Earlier this year the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the $4 Raspberry Pi Pico with RP2040 microcontroller for doing embedded development. Now that RP2040 chip is being sold for just $1 USD via their resellers for those wanting to build their own electronics with this Raspberry Pi silicon...

AMD Introduces FidelityFX Super Resolution, NVIDIA Announces DLSS For Steam Play

Tue, 06/01/2021 - 17:30

At AMD's Computex Taipei 2021 keynote they announced FidelityFX Super Resolution as coming later this month as their own open-source alternative to NVIDIA's Deep Learning Super Sampling for image upscaling while gaming. While we are waiting to see how the Linux support for FidelityFX Super Resolution will play out, NVIDIA is already trying to one up them by announcing DLSS for Steam Play...

AMD Announces New Zen 3 Desktop APUs, FidelityFX Super Resolution + More

Tue, 06/01/2021 - 11:00

For being a virtual event, AMD's keynote for Computex Taipei 2021 is filled with quite a bit of excitement and multiple product announcements. Here are the highlights for AMD's new announcements at Computex 2021.

Experimental RADV Code Allows Vulkan Ray-Tracing On Older AMD GPUs

Tue, 06/01/2021 - 02:14

AMD currently just supports Vulkan ray-tracing with their Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards while now there is independent work being done on Mesa's unofficial Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) to allow ray-tracing to work with older generations of GPUs like Vega and Polaris...

Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old This Week

Mon, 05/31/2021 - 22:26

This week on 5 June marks 17 years since starting Phoronix.com for Linux hardware reviews and also 13 years since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 for advancing open-source/Linux benchmarking...

Genode OS 21.05 Released With Webcam Support, Encrypted File Vault

Mon, 05/31/2021 - 21:22

Genode OS as the from-scratch open-source operating system framework built atop a micro-kernel abstraction layer and various original user-space components is out with its version 21.05 update...

Valve's GameNetworkingSockets 1.3 Released With Better Performance

Mon, 05/31/2021 - 20:05

One of Valve's many open-source projects is GameNetworkingSockets as a basic transport layer for games to handle UDP-based messaging, P2P networking, encryption, IPv6, and other network handling functionality of particular use to games / game engines...

Linux 5.14 To Have Additional Bring-Up For Intel Alder Lake M

Mon, 05/31/2021 - 18:44

In recent months there has been a lot of Linux kernel patches for bringing up Alder Lake S and Alder Lake P while more recently the enablement patches for Alder Lake M low-power mobile has begun...

X.Org Server Git Lands Latest Patches To Help NVIDIA XWayland

Mon, 05/31/2021 - 18:16

Red Hat's Olivier Fourdan has landed the latest XWayland improvements into X.Org Server Git for primarily benefiting the NVIDIA proprietary driver stack...

Linux Adding New Thermal Code To Deal With Hot Tegra Devices

Mon, 05/31/2021 - 18:02

Simple CPU throttling isn't sufficient for cooling some NVIDIA Tegra devices running the upstream Linux kernel so thermal cooling integration into the device frequency "devfreq" scaling code is in the work for such high performance NVIDIA SoCs...

Intel Launches Core i5-1155G7 + Core i7-1195G7 Tiger Lake Processors

Mon, 05/31/2021 - 10:30

Intel is kicking off Computex Taipei 2021 week by announcing new 11th Gen Intel Core processors as well as Intel 5G Solution 5000 as their first 5G product intended for next-gen PCs...

Linux 5.13-rc4 Releases As A "Fairly Sizable" Test Release

Mon, 05/31/2021 - 06:33

Linux 5.13-rc4 is out this US Memorial Day weekend and it has ticked up to being a rather large weekly test release...

X.Org Server Lands X Input 2.4 Touchpad Gestures

Mon, 05/31/2021 - 01:51

While there are no signs of X.Org Server 1.21 shipping anytime soon, being merged today to the Git code-base is bumping X Input to version 2.4 with the introduction of touchpad gestures...

Cairo Graphics Sees Major Improvements To Its SVG Backend

Sun, 05/30/2021 - 19:25

The Cairo 2D vector graphics library used by the likes of GTK, Mozilla, WebKit, and many other open-source projects is seeing some big strides made on its SVG back-end...

NVIDIA vs. AMD Linux Gaming Performance For End Of May 2021 Drivers

Sun, 05/30/2021 - 18:29

With May quickly drawing to a close, here are some fresh Linux gaming benchmark figures for the latest AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards on their respective latest Linux graphics drivers while looking at the performance across a variety of OpenGL and Vulkan games/workloads...

After UMN Debacle, Patatt Aims To Provide Cryptographic Attestation For Patches

Sun, 05/30/2021 - 17:53

Linux kernel developer Konstantin Ryabitsev has been working on Patatt as a cryptographic-based patch attestation system. While started a while ago, there is renewed interest in such patch attestation following the University of Minnesota "hypocrite commit" debacle...