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Bareflank Hypervisor 3.0 Pre-Release Debuts With Many Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 10/16/2021 - 16:46
The open-source Bareflank Hypervisor project designed to prototype new hypervisors across Intel, AMD, and AArch64 platforms issued their long-awaited 3.0 pre-release on Friday...

Genode-Based Sculpt OS 21.10 Adds Intel GPU Acceleration, USB Web Camera Support

Phoronix - Sat, 10/16/2021 - 15:30
On Thursday in addition to the releases of Ubuntu 21.10 (plus its derivatives) and OpenBSD 7.0, the Genode OS Framework based Sculpt OS saw its 21.10 release...

OpenCL 3.0.9 Specification Released

Phoronix - Sat, 10/16/2021 - 07:32
The Khronos Group's OpenCL working group did a quiet Friday evening tagging of OpenCL 3.0.9...

PinePhone Pro Announced As New Linux Smartphone

Phoronix - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 22:00
The PinePhone Pro is being announced this morning as the organization's new smartphone building upon the successes and experience of the original PinePhone Linux smartphone...

Intel Compute-Runtime 21.41.21220 Ships Updated DG1 Support

Phoronix - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 21:30
Intel's open-source engineers have shipped Compute-Runtime 21.41.21220 as the newest version of this Linux compute stack enabling OpenCL and Level Zero support with their graphics processors...

AV1 Codec Library libaom v3.2 Brings More Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 20:31
Libaom 3.2 is now available as the latest version of the official AOMedia/Google-developed AV1 Codec Library. With libaom 3.2 comes compression efficiency improvements, perceptual quality improvements, and a variety of speed-ups and memory optimizations...

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