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RADV Seeing Early Experimenting With Vulkan Video Capabilities

Phoronix - Fri, 11/05/2021 - 18:30
As another "first on RADV" for this Mesa Radeon Vulkan open-source driver compared to AMD's official Vulkan Linux driver options, there is an early branch providing primitive, experimental support for Vulkan Video acceleration...

Linux 5.16 Drops Support For MIPS Netlogic SoCs

Phoronix - Fri, 11/05/2021 - 18:09
The Linux 5.16 kernel is doing away with hardware support for the MIPS-based Netlogic Microsystems SoCs, the network processors developed prior to being acquired by Broadcom a decade ago...

AMDVLK 2021.Q4.1 Released As First Code Drop In Over A Month

Phoronix - Fri, 11/05/2021 - 17:37
AMD traditionally has been updating its AMDVLK official open-source Vulkan driver sources publicly on a (bi)weekly basis, but that went off the wagon recently with not seeing any updates since the end of September. That changed this morning with the publishing of AMDVLK 2021.Q4.1...

Why I use Linux to manage my yoga studio

opensource.com - Fri, 11/05/2021 - 15:00

When I started my first yoga studio in 2000, computer technology was way out of my wheelhouse. In fact, for the first two years, I didn't even have a website. I did everything from scratch, including collecting emails, sending newsletters, marketing events, and corresponding with my student base. I was extremely content operating my business that way; my focus was on teaching yoga and creating community.


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Cockpit – A Powerful Tool to Monitor and Administer Multiple Linux Servers via Browser

Tecmint - Fri, 11/05/2021 - 13:29
The post Cockpit – A Powerful Tool to Monitor and Administer Multiple Linux Servers via Browser first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Cockpit is an easy-to-use, lightweight, and simple yet powerful remote manager for GNU/Linux servers, it’s an interactive server administration user interface that offers a live Linux session via a web browser. It can run

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Wayland 1.20 Alpha Released With Upstreamed FreeBSD Support, Autotools Nuked

Phoronix - Fri, 11/05/2021 - 12:00
With the plans to release Wayland 1.20 before Christmas, Wayland 1.20 Alpha was released on Thursday to kick off the start of the release process...

Intel + Microsoft Bring oneAPI L0 & OpenCL To WSL2 With Open-Source Stack + DXGKRNL

Phoronix - Fri, 11/05/2021 - 06:21
While Intel Alder Lake is dominating today's news cycle, Intel and Microsoft also announced today that they have brought oneAPI Level Zero and Intel OpenCL support to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) while employing Intel graphics hardware acceleration...

More Linux Performance Benchmark Data For Alder Lake, Comparison Data Points

Phoronix - Fri, 11/05/2021 - 04:00
With the embargo lifted following this morning's Intel Core i5 12600K + Core i9 12900K Linux review, I've begun uploading more public test data to OpenBenchmarking.org and making my earlier test results public. With that and initial data flowing in from others in the community, here is some more data to poke through if interested in Alder Lake on Linux...

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