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Intel Volleys Latest Patches For Lighting Up Their DG1 Graphics Card On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 06/19/2020 - 05:08
Building off the existing Gen12 graphics driver support that has accumulated in the Linux kernel and Mesa over the past year, last month Intel sent out the open-source patches for supporting the DG1 graphics card on Linux...

VideoLAN Now Developing "libndi" For NDI Video Stream Handling

Phoronix - Fri, 06/19/2020 - 01:36
If the VideoLAN project wasn't already busy enough developing the VLC media player, dav1d AV1 decoder, libbluray, x264 and numerous other open-source multimedia projects, libndi is a new library being developed for dealing with NDI (Network Device Interface) video streams...

Firefox Private Network Is Now Official As Mozilla VPN

Phoronix - Fri, 06/19/2020 - 00:47
Following a beta period since last year as the Firefox Private Network, Mozilla's virtual private network offering is now going official and under the Mozilla VPN branding...

Red Hat Investing In Modularity And Will Support It Where It Makes Sense For RHEL 9

Phoronix - Thu, 06/18/2020 - 23:40
Red Hat continues to invest in the modularity concept for packaging and will be embracing it "where it most makes sense" for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9...

AMD Lands VCN 3.0 Video Encode Support For Navi 2 / Sienna Cichlid

Phoronix - Thu, 06/18/2020 - 22:52
The latest open-source/Linux bring-up for AMD's "Sienna Cichlid", a.k.a. Navi 2, is enabling VCN 3.0 video encode support...

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