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Vulkan Video Arrives For New Industry-Standard Video Encode/Decode

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 21:00
For years we have been eager to learn more about the long mentioned Vulkan Video API, which was supposed to come in H1-2020, but now has finally arrived with today's v1.2.175 update in provisional form. The new Vulkan Video extensions allow for GPU-accelerated video encode/decode. The initial public work is treated as a provisional specification and with limited codec coverage but will be expanded upon in time...

Multigenerational LRU Code Updated For Enhancing Linux Kernel Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 20:44
Last month Google engineers proposed multi-generational LRU for Linux to enhance the kernel performance and today the work has advanced to a second version...

Vulkan 1.2.175 Published With Many New Extensions

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 19:11
Vulkan 1.2.175 is now public as the latest Vulkan API specification and it's bringing with it many new extensions...

ROCm AOMP 13.0 Released For OpenMP Offloading To Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 18:41
AOMP 13.0 is out today as the first update to AMD's Radeon OpenMP offloading compiler since AOMP 11.0 last December...

Slackware 15 Beta Process Begins

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 17:49
Back in February Slackware 15.0 went into alpha, nine years since Slackware 14.0 made its debut or even five years since Slackware 14.2. Now Slackware 15.0 is up to its beta phase...

Create an encrypted file vault on Linux

opensource.com - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 15:02

Recently, I demonstrated how to implement full-drive encryption on Linux with LUKS and the cryptsetup command. While encrypting a whole drive is useful in many cases, there are reasons you might not want to encode an entire drive. For instance, you might require a drive to work across several platforms, some of which may not have Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) integration.


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What's new with Drupal in 2021?

opensource.com - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 15:01

The success of open source projects is largely carried by the pillars of the community and group collaborations. Without putting a stake in the ground to achieve strategic initiatives, an open source project can lose focus. Open source strategic initiatives should aim at solving impactful problems through collaboration involving the project's stakeholders.


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