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Intel Releases SVT-AV1 0.8.5 With More AV1 Encoder Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 19:31
Intel's open-source SVT-AV1 encoder that is now being used as the basis for the AV1 Software Working Group and used by Netflix and other organizations for being one of the most performant CPU-based AV1 encoders is out with a new release...

Vulkan 1.2.153 Released As Development Switches To "Main"

Phoronix - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 19:09
Vulkan 1.2.153 doesn't come with any new extensions or major changes aside from an important fundamental change if you are interacting with their Git repository...

Gentoo's Portage 3.0 Stabilized With Much Faster Dependency Calculations

Phoronix - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 18:46
Gentoo's Portage 3.0 package manager has been stabilized and ready to shine...

A beginner’s guide to SSH for remote connection on Linux

opensource.com - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 15:02

One of Linux's most appealing features is the ability to skillfully use a computer with nothing but commands entered into the keyboard—and better yet, to be able to do that on computers anywhere in the world. Thanks to OpenSSH, POSIX users can open a secure shell on any computer they have permission to access and use it from a remote location. It's a daily task for many Linux users, but it can be confusing for someone who has yet to try it.


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Program hardware from the Linux command line

opensource.com - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 15:01

RT-Thread is an open source real-time operating system used for programming Internet of Things (IoT) devices. FinSH is RT-Thread's command-line component, and it provides a set of operation interfaces enabling users to contact a device from the command line. It's mainly used to debug or view system information.


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10 Best Ubuntu-based Linux Distributions

Tecmint - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 14:32

Ubuntu is arguably one of the most popular and widely-used Linux distribution owing to its classic UI, stability, user-friendliness, and a rich repository that contains over 50,000 software packages. Furthermore, it comes highly recommended

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Linux 5.9-rc4 Kernel Released

Phoronix - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 08:45
Linus Torvalds took some time out of his US Labor Day weekend to issue the fourth weekly release candidate of the Linux 5.9 kernel...

18-Way NVIDIA GPU Performance With Blender 2.90 Using OptiX + CUDA

Phoronix - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 23:40
A few days ago I published a deep dive into the CPU and GPU performance with Blender 2.90 as a major update to this open-source 3D modeling software. Following that I kept on testing more and older NVIDIA GPUs with the CUDA and OptiX back-end targets to now have an 18-way comparison from Maxwell to Turing with the new Blender 2.90...

Faster Reading From /dev/zero With Linux 5.10

Phoronix - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 21:45
Queued up in char-misc-next ahead of the Linux 5.10 cycle is a speed-up for reading from /dev/zero.....

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