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SDL2 Adds Support For The Xbox Series X Controller

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 05:29
Last week Valve added Sony PlayStation 5 controller support to SDL2 while today there is launch-day support for the Xbox Series X controller for this cross-platform abstraction layer popular with games...

Apple Releases M1-Powered Apple Silicon Macs, macOS Big Sur Releasing This Week

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 03:06
As was widely expected for today's Apple event, the Cupertino company just announced their first three Macs powered by Apple Silicon...

Intel Discloses 40 More Security Advisories - PLATYPUS Is An Interesting One

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 02:34
As part of Intel's monthly security disclosures the company is today releasing forty new security advisories today...

exFAT File-System Performance On Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 02:05
Now that the Samsung-contributed open-source exFAT file-system kernel driver has matured quite nicely since being merged earlier this year as a replacement to the short-lived staging exFAT driver based on an older code-base, here is a look at how exFAT is performing on the Linux 5.9 kernel compared to EXT4 and F2FS as well as the existing exFAT FUSE file-system implementation.

Mesa 21.0 Merges Direct3D 12 Gallium3D Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 00:17
Mesa 21.0 will allow running OpenCL and OpenGL on top of Gallium3D for any hardware on Windows 10 supporting Direct3D 12 acceleration...

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