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Sony Publishes An Official Linux Driver For PlayStation 5 DualSense Controllers

Phoronix - Fri, 12/25/2020 - 01:48
Well here is a pleasant Christmas surprise... Sony has published a new "hid-playstation" Linux kernel driver for bringing up the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller and will also be used for supporting other PlayStation hardware on Linux...

Linux 5.11 Is Looking Like A Wild And Bumpy Ride On AMD CPUs So Far

Phoronix - Fri, 12/25/2020 - 00:19
A few days ago I noted nice AMD EPYC performance improvements with PostgreSQL when running on Linux 5.11 compared to prior kernels. I've confirmed that for even more AMD EPYC servers now that the PostgreSQL uplift is there, but other workloads are unfortunately regressing for both Ryzen and EPYC. Here's the start of an exciting Christmas benchmarking adventure looking at this change with Linux 5.11.....

FreeBSD Completes Its Transition From Subversion To Git For Development

Phoronix - Thu, 12/24/2020 - 21:57
The past several days FreeBSD has been working to complete its migration from their development being done with Subversion to instead using the Git distributed revision control system as used by most other open-source projects...

Intel Preparing Linear Address Masking Support (LAM)

Phoronix - Thu, 12/24/2020 - 20:17
A few days ago there was a glibc commit mentioning Intel "LAM" and now the updated Intel documentation sheds more light on this forthcoming processor feature...

FreeType Merges New "SDF" Renderer For High Quality Text Rendering In Games, Etc

Phoronix - Thu, 12/24/2020 - 19:56
As a Christmas gift to font enthusiasts, the FreeType font rasterization engine today merged its SDF renderer...

Darktable 3.4 Released For Leading Open-Source RAW Photography Software

Phoronix - Thu, 12/24/2020 - 19:35
Darktable 3.4 is out in time for dealing with any of your RAW holiday photos...

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