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Wine 6.6 Released With Better Plug & Play Driver Support

Phoronix - Sat, 04/10/2021 - 05:05
Wine 6.6 is out as the open-source project's first release of April for running Windows games and applications primarily on Linux and macOS platforms. With Wine 6.6 comes more feature work that will ultimately be incorporated into the Wine 7.0 release due out in early 2022...

X.Org Server Git Lands Support For Hardware-Accelerated XWayland With NVIDIA

Phoronix - Fri, 04/09/2021 - 23:24
The NVIDIA-led work to allow XWayland OpenGL and Vulkan acceleration with their proprietary driver has just been merged into X.Org Server Git...

AMD EPYC 7003 Series Working Out Well With The Supermicro H12SSL-i

Phoronix - Fri, 04/09/2021 - 23:07
Following last month's launch of the AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" series prominent motherboard vendors have been fairly quick to enable Milan support for capable motherboards originally launched for the prior EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors. For those in the market for a 1P ATX motherboard that will work with these exciting new server processors, the Supermicro H12SSL-i is a nice entry-level motherboard that gets the job done and with its BIOS v2.0 release is working well for the new Zen 3 server CPUs.

Fedora 34 Adding SEVCTL Utility For Managing AMD SEV

Phoronix - Fri, 04/09/2021 - 21:10
The upcoming release of Fedora 34 will make it the first major Linux distribution to have sevctl available, an open-source utility for managing AMD EPYC systems with Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV)...

HPVM 1.0 Released As LLVM-Based Compiler For CPUs / GPUs / FPGAs / Accelerators

Phoronix - Fri, 04/09/2021 - 17:57
The latest open-source compiler infrastructure effort seeking to target a wide spectrum of devices from CPUs through GPUs, FPGAs, and accelerators is HPVM. The HPVM project today celebrated its 1.0 milestone...

FFmpeg 4.4 Released With AV1 VA-API Decoder, SVT-AV1 Encoding

Phoronix - Fri, 04/09/2021 - 17:42
FFmpeg 4.4 is out today as a large update to this widely-used multimedia library and with it comes many new features including new demuxers, AV1 support improvements, and other enhancements...

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