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AMD Radeon Navi 2 / VCN 3.0 Supports AV1 Video Decoding

Phoronix - Wed, 09/16/2020 - 03:13
It turns out the Radeon RX 6000 series will have AV1 hardware video decode capabilities...

Red Hat Has Been Working On New NVFS File-System

Phoronix - Wed, 09/16/2020 - 02:55
Yet another new file-system being worked on for the Linux/open-source world is NVFS and has been spearheaded by a Red Hat engineer...

Unvanquished Game, Assets Are Now Fully Open-Source Compliant

Phoronix - Wed, 09/16/2020 - 00:40
Unvanquished was one of the most promising open-source game projects nearly a decade ago with its "Daemon" engine but since abandoning their monthly alpha release regiment and their beta/stable releases never materializing either, it's been relatively quiet the past few years. But their developers have been persisting and today they are announcing that following a three-year cleanup the game is fully free/open-source including all assets under applicable licenses...

OpenJDK 15 Reaches GA With Garbage Collector Promotions, Tossing Out Solaris + SPARC

Phoronix - Wed, 09/16/2020 - 00:07
OpenJDK 15 is out today as the latest general availability release for this open-source Java implementation...

IBM Contributing A2O Processor Core To OpenPOWER Community

Phoronix - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 23:04
IBM announced today at the OpenPOWER Summit 2020 that they are contributing the A2O POWER processor core and Open Cognitive Environment to the OpenPOWER community...

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