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Unigine Engine Turns 15 Years Old For Delivering First-Rate Linux Graphics

Phoronix - Tue, 05/05/2020 - 14:03
Yesterday marked fifteen years since the very first release of the Unigine Engine, the longtime Linux-friendly game engine that over the past decade has seemingly increased focus towards industrial simulations and AR but remaining well known among PC enthusiasts for the company's very demanding tech demos...

CompuLab Launching The Tensor-PC As A New IIOT Solution

Phoronix - Tue, 05/05/2020 - 12:00
The Linux-friendly folks at CompuLab are preparing to ship the Tensor-PC as their newest creation following their big successes with the likes of the Airtop 3 fan-less PC and incredibly small yet featureful Fitlet...

AMD Working With GNU Developers To Provide More Robust Runtime Detection For Better Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 05/05/2020 - 09:06
Back in March we reported how AMD developers were looking at GNU C Library platform optimizations for Zen and in part could be leveraging some of the capabilities currently employed by Intel for Haswell and newer. It's looking like some solid progress is being made in that direction...

Intel's High-Performance VP9 Encoder Sees Its Second Release

Phoronix - Tue, 05/05/2020 - 07:33
When it comes to Intel's high performance Scalable Video Technology (SVT) video encoders, SVT-AV1 is the most well known for its great speed and usage by Netflix and others. But Intel SVT also consists of VP9 and HEVC/H.265 encoders too and today brought the debut of SVT-VP9 0.2...

GNOME 3.36.2 Released With Restoring TLS 1.0/1.1, Crash Fixes, Other Stable Updates

Phoronix - Tue, 05/05/2020 - 05:21
GNOME 3.36.2 is now available as the latest stable GNOME desktop environment update...

Inkscape 1.0 Released For This Wildly Successful Vector Graphics Program

Phoronix - Tue, 05/05/2020 - 02:41
Inkscape 1.0 is finally here! This open-source vector graphics editor that has been around for nearly two years has finally reached 1.0 status...

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