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Pioneer DDJ-RR DJ Controller To Be Supported By The Linux 5.11 Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 11/29/2020 - 03:12
For aspiring DJs wanting to mix beats under Linux, the Pioneer DJ DDJ-RR controller should be working come Linux 5.11 early next year...

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Development Now Being Done On RADV With Navi GPU

Phoronix - Sat, 11/28/2020 - 22:06
Mike Blumenkrantz who has spent most of the year working on the "Zink" Gallium3D code for allowing universal OpenGL over Vulkan translation and took this Mesa code to OpenGL 4.6 compatibility and in some cases 90%+ the performance of a native OpenGL driver is now working on Zink development from a Radeon Navi graphics card with the RADV driver, which may in turn help uncover bugs and areas of optimizations for the open-source Radeon driver stack...

KDE Closing Out November With More Plasma Wayland Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 11/28/2020 - 19:30
KDE developers remain as busy as ever even with pandemic and Christmas season upon us...

GNOME 40 Mutter Moves Input Work To A Separate Thread

Phoronix - Sat, 11/28/2020 - 17:24
An exciting addition for GNOME 40 is that the Mutter compositor will be punting the input work off to a separate CPU thread...

Genode OS Framework 20.11 Brings Dynamic CPU Load Balancing, 64-bit ARM Sculpt OS

Phoronix - Sat, 11/28/2020 - 16:09
Genode as an original operating system framework that has been in development for more than a decade is out with a new release. The Genode OS based Sculpt OS as their "general purpose OS" push is also updated...

Why failure should be normalized and how to do it

opensource.com - Sat, 11/28/2020 - 16:00

All of your heroes have failures under their belts—from minor mistakes to major disasters. Nobody knows how to do everything automatically, and the process of learning is usually a messy one. So why is the perception that everyone but you knows what they’re doing so common? Why do we externalize our successes but internalize our failures?


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RenderDoc 1.11 Released As The Leading Open-Source, Cross-Platform Graphics Debugger

Phoronix - Sat, 11/28/2020 - 13:03
RenderDoc 1.11 is out as the newest feature release for this leading open-source graphics debugger supporting platforms from Linux to Windows to the Nintendo Switch to even Google's Stadia and supporting all major graphics APIs...

The Peculiar State Of CPU Security Mitigation Performance On Intel Tiger Lake

Phoronix - Sat, 11/28/2020 - 02:49
One area not talked about much for Intel's latest Tiger Lake processors are hardened CPU security mitigations against the various speculative execution vulnerabilities to date. What's peculiar about Tiger Lake though is now if disabling the configurable mitigations it can actually result in worse performance than the default mitigated state. At least that's what we are seeing so far with the Core i7 1165G7 on Ubuntu 20.10 Linux is the opposite of what we have been seeing on prior generations of hardware.

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