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Rav1e 0.5 Brings More Speed-Ups For This Rust AV1 Encoder

Phoronix - Sun, 11/07/2021 - 21:31
Released this week was Rav1e 0.5 as the newest feature release for this Rust-written AV1 video encoder backed by Xiph.Org and self-proclaimed to be the world's "fastest and safest" AV1 encoder...

USB Additions For Linux 5.16 Include AMD Yellow Carp PM, Apple CD321X

Phoronix - Sun, 11/07/2021 - 19:16
The USB and Thunderbolt updates for the Linux 5.16 kernel have arrived. This time around the changes are on the smaller side but there are two additions worth mentioning...

Intel's Habana Labs Continues Improving Their AI Accelerator Driver Stack With Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Sun, 11/07/2021 - 18:10
The "char/misc" changes have landed in Linux 5.16 as the catch-all area for code not fitting more appropriately within another subsystem or being a portion of the kernel that's too small for submitting pull requests directly to Linus Torvalds. For Linux 5.16, the IIO code has moved from being part of the staging area also maintained by Greg Kroah-Hartman to now being under the char/misc umbrella. Additionally, another big item is the Intel Habana Labs driver updates...

10 eureka moments of coding in the community

opensource.com - Sun, 11/07/2021 - 16:00

If you've written code, you know it takes practice to get good at it. Whether it takes months or years, there's inevitably a moment of epiphany.

We wanted to hear about that time, so we asked our community to share about that time they sat down and wrote code that truly made them proud.


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System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based On GNOME

Phoronix - Sun, 11/07/2021 - 08:30
System76's Pop!_OS Linux distribution already has their own "COSMIC" desktop that is based on GNOME, but moving ahead they are working on their own Rust-written desktop that is not based on GNOME or any existing desktop environment...

Godot 3.4 Released With Many New Features For This Open-Source Game Engine

Phoronix - Sun, 11/07/2021 - 01:46
While we eagerly await the release of Godot 4 as a massive update to this leading open-source game engine, out this weekend is Godot 3.4 as a rather significant update to Godot 3.x with a number of new features and improvements...

Proposed Patches Would Let Linux GPU Drivers More Easily Know When User Input Occurs

Phoronix - Sun, 11/07/2021 - 01:11
Proposed Linux kernel patches by a Google engineer -- based on existing functionality found within Android and Chrome OS kernel builds -- would allow Linux's DRM display/GPU drivers to more easily know when system input events occur...

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