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Red Hat / Fedora To Focus On Driving New Linux Video Improvements Around PipeWire

Phoronix - Sat, 10/02/2021 - 01:51
PipeWire from the start was designed around handling the needs of both audio and video streams on Linux. While PipeWire is already in use for screencasting/recording under Wayland and working with Flatpak'ed applications, recently much of PipeWire's focus has been on addressing the use-cases of JACK and PulseAudio on the sound side. Now that the audio support is in quite good shape, Red Hat engineers are back to focusing on improvements to the video support...

Fedora Server 35 Performance Looking Good - Initial Benchmarks With Intel Xeon Ice Lake

Phoronix - Fri, 10/01/2021 - 21:23
Given this week's release of Fedora 35 Beta I have begun my benchmarking to look at how this next installment of Fedora Linux is shaping up given that it tends to be at the forefront of open-source innovations given Red Hat's investments. For our initial F35 benchmarking is looking at the Fedora Server 35 Beta performance compared to Fedora 35 on a dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 server.

LLVM 13.0 Released With Official Flang Binary Packages, Improved OpenCL Clang Support

Phoronix - Fri, 10/01/2021 - 21:02
LLVM 13.0 was tagged overnight as the latest half-year update to this widely-used, very powerful open-source compiler stack...

PoCL 1.8 OpenCL Implementation Coming With LLVM 13 Support, Better SPIR-V On CUDA

Phoronix - Fri, 10/01/2021 - 20:29
The first release candidate of the forthcoming PoCL 1.8 "Portable Computing Language" implementation is now available for testing...

Arm Begins Adding Armv9 Support To The GNU Compiler Toolchain

Phoronix - Fri, 10/01/2021 - 19:22
Arm engineers have begun landing their Armv9 enablement work in the GNU compiler toolchain...

Proton Experimental Enables NVIDIA DLSS For D3D12 Games, Proton Now Handles More Games

Phoronix - Fri, 10/01/2021 - 17:10
Valve published new versions of Proton and Proton Experimental last night...

8 reasons why I learned Core Java

opensource.com - Fri, 10/01/2021 - 15:00

Computer programming, also known as coding for short, is not about which language you use. It's about developing programming logic and learning to think like a programmer. The language you start with should be the one that helps you the most in this endeavor. So you have to ask yourself the question: "What do you want to do as a programmer?"


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