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Google Continues Working On Suspend-Only Swap Spaces For Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 07/27/2021 - 08:30
Google engineers and other parties are interested in being able to create swap spaces on Linux systems that would be reserved just for system suspend/hibernation purposes and not for generic swapping to disk...

Intel Accelerated: New Node Naming & Ambitious Roadmap

Phoronix - Tue, 07/27/2021 - 05:30
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is back with another webcast following his update in March that focused on the new Intel Foundry Services, new US fabs, and more. Today's event is "Intel Accelerated" and offering an update on the company's IDM 2.0 process and packaging...

H.264 SVC / Temporal Encoding Wired Up For AMD's Linux Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 07/27/2021 - 04:42
For those making use of Radeon GPUs for H.264 encoding on Linux, the open-source Mesa driver stack for VCN hardware has just merged support for handling H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) / temporal encoding...

Linux Regressed Its Floppy Disk Driver - Someone Actually Noticed Just A Few Months Later

Phoronix - Tue, 07/27/2021 - 02:05
It turns out there is actually people running modern versions of the Linux kernel in 2021 that also are using floppy disks...

Eclipse OpenJ9 0.27 Released For OpenJDK 8/11/16 Alternative

Phoronix - Tue, 07/27/2021 - 01:44
The Eclipse Foundation has released OpenJ9 as the latest version of their high performance virtual machine that continues advancing four years after IBM donated the original J9 code...

DXVK 1.9.1 Released With Several Game Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 07/26/2021 - 22:17
DXVK 1.9.1 is out as the newest version of this key component to Steam Play / Proton for running Windows games on Linux with DXVK being responsible for translating Direct3D 9/10/11 calls to Vulkan...

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