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Intel Updates Roadmap For Arc Graphics, Sapphire Rapids, Falcon Shores

Phoronix - Fri, 02/18/2022 - 00:38
As part of Intel's Investor Meeting today, the company provided an updated technical roadmap with some interesting bits of information...

Benchmarking Amazon EC2's New C6a Instances Powered By 3rd Gen EPYC

Phoronix - Thu, 02/17/2022 - 22:28
Last year Amazon launched the EC2 M6a instances powered by AMD EPYC 7003 series while this week they have expanded their range of AMD Zen 3 offerings by launching the EC2 C6a series. The EC2 C6a instances are designed for compute-intensive workloads (hence the "C" series) and AWS is promoting it as offering up to 15% improvement in price-performance over prior-generation C5a instances and up to 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. I've run some benchmarks of the new EC2 C6a instances looking at how they perform over the prior 2nd Gen EPYC C5a based instances, against the Intel Ice Lake competition over in the M6i stack, and also how the C6a competes with Amazon's own Graviton2-based C6g type.

Intel OSPray Studio 0.10 Open-Source, Interactive Visualization Software Updated

Phoronix - Thu, 02/17/2022 - 19:00
Intel has released a new version of their open-source, interactive visualization software OSPray Studio that is built atop their OSPray ray-tracing rendering engine...

PipeWire 0.3.46 Released With Critical Bug Fixes, Better Sound Sharing With Zoom

Phoronix - Thu, 02/17/2022 - 18:38
PipeWire continues with its rapid sequence of releases in continuing to fine-tune this audio/video stream server for the Linux desktop so it can successfully address the roles long-served by the likes of PulseAudio and JACK...

FFmpeg Finally Retires XvMC Hardware Acceleration Code

Phoronix - Thu, 02/17/2022 - 18:07
Long before the likes of VA-API and VDPAU for GPU video playback acceleration on Linux, there was X-Video and X-Video Motion Compensation (XvMC). Finally in 2022 the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library has decided to drop that XvMC hardware acceleration code...

Edit text on Linux with KWrite and Kate

opensource.com - Thu, 02/17/2022 - 16:00

A text editor is often a good example application to demonstrate what a programming framework is capable of producing. I myself have written at least three example text editors in articles about wxPython and PyQt, and Java. The reason they're seen as easy apps to create is because the frameworks provide so much of the code that's hardest to write. I think that's also the reason that most operating systems provide a simple desktop text editor.


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A guide to installing applications on Linux

opensource.com - Thu, 02/17/2022 - 16:00

When you want to try a new app on your phone, you open your app store and install the app. It's simple, quick, and efficient. In this model of providing applications, phone vendors ensure that you know exactly where to go to get an app, and that developers with apps to distribute know where to put their apps so people can find them.


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AMD ROCm 5.0.1 Released - Begins Moving HIPCC/HIPCONFIG From Perl Scripts To Binaries

Phoronix - Thu, 02/17/2022 - 13:00
Last week marked the release of the big AMD ROCm 5.0 update to the Radeon open-source GPU compute stack. Out already is now ROCM 5.0.1 with documentation updates as well as initiating the change around the hipcc and hipconfig commands moving forward...

OpenBMC 2.11 Released As The Leading Open-Source Linux Distro For BMCs

Phoronix - Thu, 02/17/2022 - 08:39
With OpenBMC 2.10 never having materialized beyond a release candidate, the release of OpenBMC 2.11 today is a big one with roughly a year's worth of changes since OpenBMC 2.9. OpenBMC 2.11 brings many improvements for this Linux distribution intended for baseboard management controllers (BMCs) on servers and other management controllers...

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