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X-Plane 11.50 Officially Released With Its Vulkan Renderer

Phoronix - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 21:58
X-Plane has long been Linux-friendly and one of the most realistic flight simulators available while today it's taking a big step forward with its 11.50 release and the much anticipated introduction of its new rendering engine with Vulkan support...

Raspberry Pi 4 VC4 Support Coming With Linux 5.10

Phoronix - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 21:11
The big set of patches for Raspberry Pi 4 / BCM2711 display support with the VC4 DRM driver will finally be merged next month for the Linux 5.10 cycle...

Intel Working On VA-API AV1 Acceleration For FFmpeg

Phoronix - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 18:53
With Intel Xe LP / Tigerlake adding AV1 accelerated video decode, the Intel open-source developers are working to expose their AV1 hardware acceleration through the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) for usage by the likes of FFmpeg and other multimedia software...

GRVK 0.2 Continues Advancing This AMD Mantle To Vulkan Translation Layer

Phoronix - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 18:32
While there aren't too many Windows games out there still popular and supporting AMD's Mantle graphics API that was the precursor to Vulkan, open-source developer Clément Guérin continues work on his "GRVK" initiative for mapping Mantle on top of Vulkan as a learning exercise and for allowing those still relevant Mantle-supported games to in turn run on Vulkan...

Qt 5.15.1 Released With 400+ Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 18:20
Polishing up Qt 5.15 since its May release is now Qt 5.15.1 as the first point release in this last Qt5 series ahead of Qt 6.0 later this year...

Install Linux from USB Device or Boot into Live Mode Using Unetbootin and dd Command

Tecmint - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 18:15

Installing Linux from a USB mass storage device or logging into Live Linux Environment is a cool Idea. Booting from a USB mass storage device is sometimes necessary, especially when the ROM media device

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