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Paragon Sends Out Latest NTFS Read-Write Linux Driver Patches

Phoronix - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 22:45
Back in August was the big surprise of file-system driver vendor Paragon Software wanting to mainline their NTFS driver into the Linux kernel that is much more advanced than the existing NTFS Linux driver. While not merged yet, on Friday the latest version was sent out for review...

KDE Plasma Mobile Has Been Making Great Progress

Phoronix - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 21:00
Not only is the Plasma 5.20 desktop shining and more Wayland improvements and other enhancements queuing for Plasma 5.21, but the Plasma Mobile effort is also beginning to shine...

The Linux Kernel Preparing To Take Advantage Of The Intel DSA / ENQCMD In Sapphire Rapids

Phoronix - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 18:46
Expected with next year's Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs is the Intel DSA as the Data Streaming Accelerator for high performance data movement and transformation operations. Since the end of 2019 there have been Linux patches surfacing for bringing up the DSA support and now as we roll into 2021 the Linux kernel looks to begin making use of the new capabilities...

How to Install Linux - How-To Geek

Google News - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 18:40
How to Install Linux  How-To Geek

FFmpeg Now Supports VP9 Profile 2 VDPAU Decode (10-bit / 12-bit)

Phoronix - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 18:19
New to the RTX 30 series and the NVIDIA 455 Linux driver is decode support with VDPAU for VP9 10-bit and 12-bit content, which can now be taken advantage of by the popular FFmpeg multimedia library...

AMD Reportedly In Talks To Acquire Xilinx

Phoronix - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 17:57
While AMD is providing great pressure against Intel in the CPU space, it looks like AMD could be soon going up against them in the FPGA space too...

My open source video game for Open Jam

opensource.com - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 15:01

This year, I joined in on the Open Jam, a "game jam" in which programmers around the world dedicate a weekend to create open source games. The jam is essentially an excuse to spend a weekend coding, and the majority of the games that come out of the challenge are small distractions rather than something you're likely to play for hours on end. But they're fun, diverse, and open source, and that's a pretty good feature list for a game.


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A Last Call For The 2020 Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest Special

Phoronix - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 15:00
Just a friendly reminder and last call that if you wanted to partake in this week's 2020 "Oktoberfest" Phoronix Premium special, it is ending this weekend...

5 ways organizations can lean into failure and transform it into success

opensource.com - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 15:00

"If failure is not an option, then neither is success."—Seth Godin

Success is something we all strive toward, but the road to success has twists and turns, which are also known as our failures. But instead of giving up when things don't go my way, I have learned to look at failures as learning opportunities. In fact, I now proudly admit that I'm a failure:


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