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PinePhone Pro Announced As New Linux Smartphone

Phoronix - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 22:00
The PinePhone Pro is being announced this morning as the organization's new smartphone building upon the successes and experience of the original PinePhone Linux smartphone...

Intel Compute-Runtime 21.41.21220 Ships Updated DG1 Support

Phoronix - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 21:30
Intel's open-source engineers have shipped Compute-Runtime 21.41.21220 as the newest version of this Linux compute stack enabling OpenCL and Level Zero support with their graphics processors...

AV1 Codec Library libaom v3.2 Brings More Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 20:31
Libaom 3.2 is now available as the latest version of the official AOMedia/Google-developed AV1 Codec Library. With libaom 3.2 comes compression efficiency improvements, perceptual quality improvements, and a variety of speed-ups and memory optimizations...

3 ways to manage RPG character sheets with open source

opensource.com - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 19:30

It's that time of year again for gamers everywhere.


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Cluster Scheduler Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 18:37
Cluster scheduler support has been queued up for landing in the Linux 5.16 kernel for AArch64 and x86_64 systems for improving the CPU scheduler behavior for systems that have clusters of CPU cores...

SALSA Back In Development As A Small ALSA Library For Linux Systems

Phoronix - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 18:03
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE is back to hacking on SALSA, the "small ALSA" library that he started a decade ago but hadn't seen a new release in six years or any code activity for the past four years... until this week...

AMD Finally Enabling PSR By Default For Newer Hardware With Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 17:33
With it getting late into the Linux 5.15 kernel cycle, the focus is shifting by the Direct Rendering Driver maintainers from new feature work targeting the next cycle (5.16) to instead on bug fixes. AMD sent out a pull request of new AMDGPU Linux 5.16 material this week that is primarily delivering bug fixes but one notable addition is finally enabling PSR by default for newer GPUs...

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