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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...

XanMod, Liquorix Kernels Offer Some Advantages On AMD Ryzen 5 Notebook

Phoronix - Mon, 07/26/2021 - 20:32
Motivated in part by the recent le9 kernel patches that are already carried by XanMod and not having benchmarked the XanMod or Liquorix Linux kernel downstreams in a while, here are some fresh benchmarks of Liquorix and XanMod against the recent upstream Linux kernel releases.

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