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Ardour 6.9 Digital Audio Workstation Released

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 12:00
Ardour as one of the leading open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) solutions is out with another new release...

GeForce RTX 30 vs. AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Vulkan Ray-Tracing On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 04:00
Given this week's launch of the Radeon RX 6600 XT and that also bringing the new Radeon Software for Linux 21.30 driver, I was curious to see how the Vulkan ray-tracing performance compares now against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series on Linux.

Wine 6.15 Released With More PE Conversion Work, More 32-bit To 64-bit Thunks

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 03:52
Wine 6.15 has been uncorked as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software that powers Steam Play and more for running Windows games/applications on Linux...

NVIDIA Tegra Open-Source Graphics Driver Introducing New User-Space ABI

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 02:05
NVIDIA's Tegra DRM driver that is part of the mainline kernel will be introducing a new user-space API/ABI with Linux 5.15 that is designed for future hardware while also working for existing Tegra SoCs...

Cirrus Logic "Dolphin" Audio Support Coming For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Fri, 08/13/2021 - 20:26
Cirrus Logic has contributed a number of improvements to their CS8409 HDA audio driver for the Linux kernel that includes support for new "Dolphin" audio hardware...

Linux 5.15 To Allow Reading From The Nintendo OTP Memory Area

Phoronix - Fri, 08/13/2021 - 19:31
For hobbyists that enjoy tinkering around with Linux running on the Nintendo Wii or Wii U game consoles, a new driver coming for Linux 5.15 allows accessing the specialized OTP read-only memory area that contains the encryption/decryption keys and other data...

Arm Working On Clang C++ For OpenCL 2021 (OpenCL 3.0 Compatible)

Phoronix - Fri, 08/13/2021 - 18:24
With LLVM's Clang C/C++ compiler front-end squaring away its OpenCL C 3.0 language support, Arm engineers are now working on the C++ equivalent support...

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