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V3DV Driver For Raspberry Pi Closing In On Vulkan 1.0

Phoronix - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 23:26
The V3DV open-source Vulkan driver being developed by consulting firm Igalia for the Raspberry Pi Foundation is nearing official support for Vulkan 1.0...

Dynamic Triple Buffering For GNOME Still Being Worked On To Ramp Up The GPU When Needed

Phoronix - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 22:10
Proposed earlier this summer for GNOME's Mutter was the idea of triple buffering the desktop when the GPU is running behind in order to ideally cause that extra load to ramp up the GPU clock frequencies in order to in turn get back on track with rendering the desktop on-time. A third version of that work is now brewing albeit too late to see with the imminent GNOME 3.38.0 release...

AV2 Is In R&D As The Eventual Successor To The AV1 Video Codec

Phoronix - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 21:36
While AV1 adoption is still taking off and finally seeing desktop hardware with AV1 decode, given the time it takes to develop a new high-end video codec it shouldn't come as too much surprise that "AV2" is already being explored...

Intel Releases SVT-AV1 0.8.5 With More AV1 Encoder Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 19:31
Intel's open-source SVT-AV1 encoder that is now being used as the basis for the AV1 Software Working Group and used by Netflix and other organizations for being one of the most performant CPU-based AV1 encoders is out with a new release...

Vulkan 1.2.153 Released As Development Switches To "Main"

Phoronix - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 19:09
Vulkan 1.2.153 doesn't come with any new extensions or major changes aside from an important fundamental change if you are interacting with their Git repository...

Gentoo's Portage 3.0 Stabilized With Much Faster Dependency Calculations

Phoronix - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 18:46
Gentoo's Portage 3.0 package manager has been stabilized and ready to shine...

A beginner’s guide to SSH for remote connection on Linux

opensource.com - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 15:02

One of Linux's most appealing features is the ability to skillfully use a computer with nothing but commands entered into the keyboard—and better yet, to be able to do that on computers anywhere in the world. Thanks to OpenSSH, POSIX users can open a secure shell on any computer they have permission to access and use it from a remote location. It's a daily task for many Linux users, but it can be confusing for someone who has yet to try it.


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Program hardware from the Linux command line

opensource.com - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 15:01

RT-Thread is an open source real-time operating system used for programming Internet of Things (IoT) devices. FinSH is RT-Thread's command-line component, and it provides a set of operation interfaces enabling users to contact a device from the command line. It's mainly used to debug or view system information.


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10 Best Ubuntu-based Linux Distributions

Tecmint - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 14:32

Ubuntu is arguably one of the most popular and widely-used Linux distribution owing to its classic UI, stability, user-friendliness, and a rich repository that contains over 50,000 software packages. Furthermore, it comes highly recommended

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