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Xilinx Continues Their Open-Source FPGA Upstreaming Push For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

While consumer GPUs are reaching market with AV1 decode acceleration, there still is the matter of the various media APIs and multimedia software making use of it. In cases where that is missing or the user doesn't yet have a supported Tiger Lake / Ampere / RDNA2 GPU, the dav1d decoder remains the fastest open-source CPU-based AV1 decoder. Similarly, SVT-AV1 remains the fastest CPU-based AV1 encoder available...

The latest bit of obscure hardware support set to arrive with Linux 5.11 are the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii U dongles for the Guitar Hero Live...

Linux 5.11 Adds "Magic" To Support Guitar Hero Live PlayStation 3 / Wii U Dongles  Phoronix

18OO_815_793O Zonealarm (Tech)<<< Support||| Phone Number - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

The Mediatek MT8167 SoC was announced four years ago already while for the Linux 5.11 kernel in early 2021 will finally be display support via the open-source Mediatek DRM driver...

mint crashes when i boot up - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

For aspiring DJs wanting to mix beats under Linux, the Pioneer DJ DDJ-RR controller should be working come Linux 5.11 early next year...

Pioneer DDJ-RR DJ Controller To Be Supported By The Linux 5.11 Kernel  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds doubts Linux will get ported to Apple M1 hardware  Ars Technica

Linus Torvalds doubts Linux will get ported to Apple M1 hardware  Ars Technica

Mike Blumenkrantz who has spent most of the year working on the "Zink" Gallium3D code for allowing universal OpenGL over Vulkan translation and took this Mesa code to OpenGL 4.6 compatibility and in some cases 90%+ the performance of a native OpenGL driver is now working on Zink development from a Radeon Navi graphics card with the RADV driver, which may in turn help uncover bugs and areas of optimizations for the open-source Radeon driver stack...

How to install SNAP on Linux Mint 20 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Zotero: Open Source App to Help You Collect & Share Research  It's FOSS

Why Aren’t Viruses a Problem on Chrome OS?  How-To Geek

KDE developers remain as busy as ever even with pandemic and Christmas season upon us...

What option to use for ping constantly until you stop it? - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Automotive Grade Linux Releases UCB 10 Software Platform  AiThority

An exciting addition for GNOME 40 is that the Mutter compositor will be punting the input work off to a separate CPU thread...

Genode as an original operating system framework that has been in development for more than a decade is out with a new release. The Genode OS based Sculpt OS as their "general purpose OS" push is also updated...