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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Beta Released

Phoronix - Wed, 11/03/2021 - 23:31
Red Hat today announced the first public beta of the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0...

Ubuntu Continues Work On Flutter+Dart Written Firmware-Updater Utility

Phoronix - Wed, 11/03/2021 - 21:00
Along with the work-in-progress new Ubuntu desktop installer, another GUI project being pursued by Canonical going into the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS cycle is the "firmware-updater" as a firmware updating GUI solution written in the Flutter toolkit and Dart...

Linux 5.16 Graphics Drivers: Alder Lake S Is Stable, Initial DG2, AMD DP 2.0 + USB4

Phoronix - Wed, 11/03/2021 - 19:00
All of the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) kernel graphics/display driver updates were submitted and already merged for the very exciting Linux 5.16 kernel cycle. There is a lot of good stuff this round especially when it comes to the open-source Intel and AMD Radeon drivers...

Steam Beta Adds VA-API Acceleration For Remote Play

Phoronix - Wed, 11/03/2021 - 18:07
For those enjoying Steam Remote Play in-home streaming functionality, the latest Steam client beta now supports making use of the Video Acceleration API for encoding...

More ASRock & ASUS Motherboards Will Have Working Sensors With Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Wed, 11/03/2021 - 17:33
The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 5.16 kernel and with this comes sensor support for some additional ASRock and ASUS motherboards...

Intel DG2/Alchemist Soon To See Big Performance Boost With Mesa Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 11/03/2021 - 16:56
A set of patches were posted this past week by Intel open-source driver engineer Francisco Jerez with pixel pipeline optimizations that help all DG2/Alchemist platforms with double digit percentage improvements...

EROFS With LZMA/MicroLZMA, XFS Footprint Improvements Sent In For Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Wed, 11/03/2021 - 16:46
Along with the Btrfs updates, other Linux file-systems have also been sending in their improvements destined for the Linux 5.16 kernel...

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