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Godot 4.0 Alpha 1 Released With Vulkan Renderer & Other Shiny Features

Phoronix - Tue, 01/25/2022 - 00:16
The first alpha release of the huge Godot 4.0 is now available! Godot 4.0 has been shaping up to be a massive update for this open-source game engine...

DXVK 1.9.4 Released With Better Support For God Of War

Phoronix - Tue, 01/25/2022 - 00:10
DXVK 1.9.4 is now available for this Direct3D 9/10/11 over Vulkan API implementation used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and other software...

Linux 5.17 Is Bringing Big Improvements For AMD Hardware

Phoronix - Mon, 01/24/2022 - 22:20
Thanks to hiring more Linux developers and preparing to ramp up for next-generation hardware support, the in-development Linux 5.17 kernel is going to be another exciting step forward for AMD Linux customers...

UDP/IPv6 Optimization Patches Pending For ~5% Improvement In CPU Bound Test

Phoronix - Mon, 01/24/2022 - 19:51
Among the many new features in Linux 5.17 are several notable network optimizations. Optimizing network performance is a never-ending game and already for a future kernel are a new set of UDP/IPv6 optimizations being worked on...

New ASUS Sensor Driver For Linux Aims For Greater Flexibility & Faster Sensor Reading

Phoronix - Mon, 01/24/2022 - 18:50
It's just with the in-development Linux 5.17 kernel that the "asus_wmi_ec_sensors" is making its debut for greatly expanded sensor support for modern ASUS desktop motherboards. However, there is already a new driver that has been in development that ultimately aims to be superior to this still-new driver...

LLVM Clang Now Defaulting To The DWARFv5 Debug Format

Phoronix - Mon, 01/24/2022 - 18:09
Following GCC, the LLVM Clang C/C++ compiler front-end is now defaulting to using the DWARFv5 debugging data format...

Why choose Rocket.Chat for your open source chat tool

opensource.com - Mon, 01/24/2022 - 16:01

Created in 2015, Rocket.Chat is a fully open source and customizable communications platform designed for communities and organizations with high standards for data protection. Rocket.Chat enables communication through federation, and over 12 million people are using it for team chat, customer service, secure file sharing, and much more. Rocket.Chat is in many ways the world's most comprehensive open source communications platform.


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