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New Intel Mesa Driver Patches Implement AV1 Decode For Vulkan Video

Phoronix - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 18:00
While there has been Vulkan Video support within Intel's open-source "ANV" driver since early 2023 and extended over time to handle H.265/HEVC decode, H.264 and H.265 encode, and more, the AV1 decode support has lagged behind until now...

CachyOS Had A Really Great Year Advancing This Performance-Optimized Arch Linux Platform

Phoronix - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 16:00
The CachyOS Linux distribution has really been on fire this year delivering impressive new features and performance optimizations for this Arch Linux derived OS...

How to Use sed for Dynamic Number Replacement in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 13:32
The post How to Use sed for Dynamic Number Replacement in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The sed command, short for Stream Editor, is a powerful text processing tool in Linux, which is widely used for

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How to Use awk to Perform Arithmetic Operations in Loops

Tecmint - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 12:21
The post How to Use awk to Perform Arithmetic Operations in Loops first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The awk command is a powerful tool in Linux for processing and analyzing text files, which is particularly useful when

The post How to Use awk to Perform Arithmetic Operations in Loops first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Rust Drama, Russian Kernel Maintainers & Other Top Linux Kernel Happenings Of 2024

Phoronix - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 05:12
With 2024 drawing quickly toward a close, here is a look back at the most popular Linux kernel news of the year ranging from exciting performance optimizations and new features such as QR code error messages over to kernel drama around Russian kernel developers, Bcachefs disturbances, and the contentious growing Rust programming language use within the kernel...

SDL3 Adds Cross-Platform System Tray Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 02:56
A new feature landing in the SDL3 software/hardware abstraction library today that is commonly used by cross-platform games is a native system tray implementation that works across operating systems...

BIOS Optimizations For AMD 5th Gen EPYC Yield Greater HPC Performance & Power Efficiency

Phoronix - Tue, 12/24/2024 - 23:30
Using the 5th Gen EPYC BIOS tuning guide published by AMD, I recently looked at the impact of AI and machine learning optimized performance by adjusting some simple BIOS knobs as well as the Java throughput, latency and power efficiency for the EPYC 9005 class processors. In this article is following the AMD BIOS tuning guide to see what performance difference there is for high performance computing (HPC) workloads following the BIOS tuning recommendations compared to the defaults with an AMD EPYC 9575F server.

AMD GPU Driver Engineer Marek Olšák Lands Mesa 25.0 Optimizations For Christmas

Phoronix - Tue, 12/24/2024 - 22:30
Longtime open-source Radeon graphics driver developer Marek Olšák that is well known for his Mesa improvements over the years and countless optimizations even before being employed by AMD has seen some exciting patches merged just in time for Christmas...

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