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Getting Experimental Vulkan Within QEMU VMs Using Linux 5.16+ Paired With Mesa's Venus

Phoronix - Sat, 11/27/2021 - 00:28
When running on the very latest Linux 5.16 Git kernel paired with recent Mesa and various experimental components to the virtualization stack, it is possible getting at least basic Vulkan acceleration working within QEMU guest virtual machines that in turn is accelerated by the host...

Minecraft Now 30% Faster With Open-Source AMD Radeon Driver On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 11/26/2021 - 20:06
Those using the open-source AMD Radeon OpenGL driver "RadeonSI" on Linux the performance within the popular Minecraft game is about to be a lot better...

Several Older NVIDIA Tegra Powered Tablets To Be Supported By Linux 5.17

Phoronix - Fri, 11/26/2021 - 18:57
For those that happen to have older ASUS Transformer tablets powered by a NVIDIA Tegra SoC, the Linux 5.17 kernel cycle early next year is enabling a number of them to work off the mainline kernel...

LLVM Prepares New ThreadSanitizer Runtime That Is Faster, Lower Memory Use

Phoronix - Fri, 11/26/2021 - 18:40
LLVM developers have been working recently to land their new ThreadSanitizer run-time. The TSan as a reminder is the compiler instrumentation with associated run-time library for being able to detect data races...

10 holiday gift ideas for open source enthusiasts

opensource.com - Fri, 11/26/2021 - 16:00

Are you looking for cool gifts for people on your holiday shopping list or ideas for your own wishlist? If so, consider one of the ten suggestions below. Each of these gift suggestions connects in some way to the open source ethos. From DIY projects to computers to books, this list provides gift suggestions that foster creativity, learning, and exploring.

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Red Hat honors APAC partners for supporting customers in their digital transformation with open source innovation

Red Hat News - Fri, 11/26/2021 - 13:00

Help us celebrate the winners of the Red Hat Asia Pacific Partner Awards, which recognize commercial and public sector partners for their continued efforts to develop innovative solutions using Red Hat technologies to meet customers needs and improve business outcomes.

FUTEX2 futex_waitv Wired Up For Other Architectures With Linux 5.16-rc3

Phoronix - Fri, 11/26/2021 - 08:19
FUTEX2 as in the new futex_waitv system call landed in Linux 5.16 back during the merge window for improving the efficiency of running Windows games on Linux for those that rely on Windows' WaitForMultipleObjects functionality with futex_waitv is now the ability to wait on multiple futexes. That new system call is now supported on more architectures with the next Linux 5.16 release candidate...

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