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Intel Releases SVT-AV1 0.9 For Quicker AV1 Video Encoding

Phoronix - Sun, 01/23/2022 - 01:15
Intel in cooperation with the Alliance for Open Media have released SVT-AV1 0.9 with nearly one year worth of changes to this high performance CPU-based AV1 video encoder. SVT-AV1 0.9 is now even faster as shown by our latest benchmarks.

Linux 5.17 Lands Fix For Hanging If Ejecting A Broken Floppy

Phoronix - Sun, 01/23/2022 - 00:11
If you are in the rare group of folks still relying upon floppy disks and doing so while running up-to-date software stacks, Linux 5.17 will be of interest to you...

Valve Is Sponsoring More CI Testing For The Open-Source Radeon Linux Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 01/22/2022 - 21:02
As good news not only to future Steam Deck users but all Linux gamers making use of the Mesa open-source graphics drivers, Valve is sponsoring additional continuous integration (CI) testing of Mesa commits...

KDE's Very Busy Week From 15 Minute Bugs To Plasma Wayland Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 01/22/2022 - 19:11
It was a very busy and productive week for KDE developers with many new features and fixes landing...

Linux 5.17 Adds RISC-V sv48 Support For Being Able To Handle More Memory

Phoronix - Sat, 01/22/2022 - 18:21
In addition to Linux 5.17 bringing support for the low-cost StarFive RISC-V platform among other RISC-V updates, more changes for this royalty-free processor ISA were sent in on Friday...

Our favorite Linux commands to use just for fun

opensource.com - Sat, 01/22/2022 - 16:00

In November, we shared the article 7 Linux commands to use just for fun and asked you to tell us what "for fun" Linux command you recommend—and why?

Some Opensource.com contributors shared their favorites below.

My favorites:


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NVIDIA Releases Quake II RTX 1.6 With Support For AMD FidelityFX FSR

Phoronix - Sat, 01/22/2022 - 07:00
It's been nearly one year since NVIDIA's last update to Quake II RTX as their port of Quake II to using Vulkan ray-tracing extensions for RTX path-traced global illumination. Fortunately, that changed today as they are out with a big update in the form of Quake II RTX v1.6...

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