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Steam Audio SDK 2.0 Beta 18 Released
Valve has released a new beta version of Steam Audio, their featureful spatial audio solution for game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine. This new release brings expanded Android support and a number of new audio features...
Ubuntu 20.04's Server Installer Sees Last Minute Work To Better Handle Linux RAID Installs
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is due for release on Thursday and it's seen a last minute upgrade to its "Subiquity" server installer...
Intel Deep Learning Reference Stack 6.0 Released For Maximizing Performance
Two years ago Intel announced the open-source Deep Learning Reference Stack with providing an easy-to-use, performance-focused stack for exploiting deep learning capabilities on Intel x86_64 hardware. Today marks version 6.0 of this toolkit...
Linux 5.8 To Properly Support The RME Babyface Pro High-End Audio Hardware
While a peculiar name for some expensive audio hardware, the Linux 5.8 kernel is set to properly support the RME Babyface Pro and RME Babyface Pro FS...
Amazon Plumbing Nitro Enclaves Support For Linux To Isolate Highly Sensitive Data
Amazon is working on upstreaming support into the Linux kernel for AWS Entro Niclaves for additional isolation around highly sensitive data within the EC2 cloud...
NVIDIA Announces MONAI Open-Source AI Project
NVIDIA has announced MONAI as their newest open-source initiative...
An Intel Keem Bay Driver Is Posted To Avoid The SoC Suffering Inadvertent Reboots
As I wrote about just over a month ago, Intel open-source developers have begun their bring-up of the Keem Bay SoC. Out today is a new Keem Bay driver to avoid a situation where inadvertent reboots could happen without this driver...
Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 Released With Many Benchmark Result Viewer Improvements
Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.0 is now available as the newest quarterly feature release to our cross-platform, open-source benchmarking software...
GNU Shepherd 0.8 Released As An Alternative To Systemd
GNU Shepherd, the official init system and service manager of the GNU operating system, is out with its newest update...
AMD Announces The Ryzen 3 3100 + Ryzen 3 3300X Processors
AMD has expanded its highly successful Zen 2 family with some new low-end parts...
Debian Dropping A Number Of Old Linux Drivers Is Angering Vintage Hardware Users
More than a few Phoronix readers have written in over the past few days expressing outrage that Debian GNU/Linux is dropping a number of old hardware drivers...
TLB State Access Being Tightened Up On Linux For Better Security
The latest Linux kernel security work being pursued by Thomas Gleixner is tightening up access around the kernel's per-CPU TLB state access for the translation lookaside buffer...
NixOS 20.03 Released Atop Linux 5.4, Various Desktop/Display Improvements
NixOS 20.03 has been released as the newest version of this Linux distribution built atop the Nix package manager...
VirtIO-FS Support Is In QEMU 5.0 For Better File/Folder Sharing Between Hosts And VMs
Added back in Linux 5.4 was the VirtIO-FS file-system driver as a a FUSE-framework-based file-system implementation designed for guest to/from host file-system sharing for VirtIO para-virtualized devices. Now with QEMU 5.0 VirtIO-FS is supported on its side...
Intel Working On Slim Bootloader Integration Improvements For The Linux Kernel
Slim Bootloader is the open-source initiative Intel announced in Q3'2018 for providing a very bare bones BSD-licensed open-source firmware implementation. We're now seeing new Linux patches for improving the integration with the Slim Bootloader...
Intel Landing More Driver Work Needed For Discrete GPU Linux Support
Landing today in Mesa 20.1-devel were some of the OpenGL/Vulkan-side driver changes needed as part of Intel's road to bringing up discrete Xe GPU support under Linux...
Git Sees Another Round Of New Releases Due To Security Issue
Last week saw a slew of new Git releases due to a security issue over the newline character creating a possible credential leak. This week is another round of emergency Git releases due to a similar security bug...
OpenZFS Sees 3x Throughput Boost For ZVOL Sync Write Performance
Last week brought FreeBSD support merged into OpenZFS and it turns out there is another recently-merged exciting advancement for this cross-platform open-source ZFS file-system code in terms of a big speed boost...
There Is Now A WireGuard Benchmark For Testing Linux Networking Performance
With WireGuard added to the Linux 5.6 kernel and it being back-ported to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and its tools getting packaged up by more Linux distributions, it's finally the year of WireGuard. With its usage set to skyrocket as supported kernels and the WireGuard utilities become available out-of-the-box on more distributions, there is now a WireGuard benchmark for stressing the kernel and its support...
TUXEDO Computers Launches A Power/Thermal Control Center For Their Linux Systems
German Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers has launched the "TUXEDO Control Center" to provide a GUI-driven control panel for managing thermal and power settings on their systems...