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RISC-V based PolarFire SoC debuts on open-spec, $499 dev kit - LinuxGizmos.com
RISC-V based PolarFire SoC debuts on open-spec, $499 dev kit LinuxGizmos.com
Sabrent USB 3.2 Enclosure + Sabrent Rocket Q 2TB NVMe SSD On Linux Performance
For those looking at an NVMe PCIe M.2 solid-state drive enclosure for connecting to USB 3.1/3.2 systems, Sabrent offers a nice option with their EC-TFNB enclosure that is constructed out of aluminum, 100% tool-free, and runs well. I recently bought this Sabrent USB 3.2 enclosure along with the Sabrent Rocket Q 2TB NVMe solid-state drive, which offers nice performance for a PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD and the 2TB capacity can be found for just about $250 USD.
Source code of Covid Tracker Ireland app goes global with Linux project - Siliconrepublic.com
Source code of Covid Tracker Ireland app goes global with Linux project Siliconrepublic.com
KaOS Linux 2020.07 Now Available for Download - Softpedia News
KaOS Linux 2020.07 Now Available for Download Softpedia News
Intel Async Page-Flipping Support Revised For Benefiting Skylake Graphics And Newer
Over the past several months there has been work on Intel's Linux kernel graphics driver for async page-flipping to yield better performance. That work was revised against today for hopefully making it into a kernel release in the near future albeit too late for Linux 5.9 but regardless nice to see this work moving forward...
Linux Secret Memory "secretmemfd" System Call Remains Under Review
A few months back we wrote of experimental work for creating "secret" memory areas with memfd and now that work has turned into the secretmemfd system call that is under review...
Vulkan 1.2.148 Release Tacks On Two More Extensions
Vulkan 1.2.148 was released on Sunday with two new extensions...
Radeon R600 Gallium3D NIR Backend Continues Advancing
While the open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver allows pre-GCN AMD graphics card owners continue making use of their graphics cards, there are diminishing returns with newer games requiring Vulkan that is not supported by pre-HD7000 series hardware as well as far greater performance and efficiency improvements in the more recent generations. In any case, if you are still using a Radeon HD 2000 through HD 6000 series graphics card, some new life is being pushed into the open-source driver via the in-development NIR back-end...
FFmpeg Adds H.265 Tile Encoding Support For VA-API With Intel Icelake+
The latest FFmpeg multimedia library code can see faster H.265 video encoding with the Video Acceleration API when running on Icelake and newer Intel graphics...