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Linux 5.12 Features Intel Xe VRR, Nintendo 64 Port + Clang LTO + Much More

Phoronix - Sun, 02/28/2021 - 23:30
The Linux 5.12 merge window was off to a rough start due to winter storms preventing Linus Torvalds from merging changes for nearly one week, but in any case he appears to have caught up and the Linux 5.12-rc1 kernel is expected later today to end out the merge window. Here is a look at the many exciting changes coming for Linux 5.12.

Vulkan Ray-Tracing Along With Other New/Updated Benchmarks For February

Phoronix - Sun, 02/28/2021 - 22:06
There have been plenty of new and updated benchmarks over the course of February ahead of upcoming CPU and GPU launches...

Linux Mint's Update Manager To Encourage Users To Apply Security Updates

Phoronix - Sun, 02/28/2021 - 21:52
Last week the Linux Mint project shared the troubling news how many of its users are behind on important security updates or in some cases even running end-of-life versions. In trying to help address the issue, Linux Mint is working on improvements to its Update Manager to encourage users to apply updates...

Xilinx Volleys Latest Open-Source Alveo Accelerator Driver Code

Phoronix - Sun, 02/28/2021 - 20:09
Back in March 2019 Xilinx announced they were looking to upstream their Alveo FPGA accelerator drivers into the mainline kernel code. They followed through with posting the initial kernel patches and then fast forward to the end of 2020 they posted a new iteration of the patches. This month the company, which is in the process of being acquired by AMD, posted the third iteration of their open-source Linux kernel driver patches...

Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver Hopes For Upstream In 2021

Phoronix - Sun, 02/28/2021 - 19:25
For more than four years Apple's MacBook Pro has featured the Touch Bar as a display / control bar input device above the keyboard on these laptops. While there have been reports of Apple potentially phasing out the Touch Bar in future models, an open-source Linux driver for the component is still working its way toward the mainline kernel...

Edit video on Linux with this Python app

opensource.com - Sun, 02/28/2021 - 16:00

In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. Here's how I use Linux to edit videos.


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