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PipeWire 0.3 Released With Redesigned Scheduling Code To Offer JACK2-Like Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 02/22/2020 - 22:08
PipeWire is the Red Hat engineered project aiming to offer better audio/video stream handling on Linux that integrates well with Flatpak and can optimally handle use-cases currently covered by the likes of PulseAudio and JACK. This week marked the release of PipeWire 0.3 as another big step forward for the effort...

A Few More Linux Kernel Patches Floated This Week For AMD Family 19h (Zen 3)

Phoronix - Sat, 02/22/2020 - 21:04
Going back to the start of 2020 we've been seeing a few patches here and there around AMD Family 19h, almost certainly Zen 3. That patch work has continued with a few more bits out this week while hopefully more bring-up is on the horizon ahead of the Linux 5.7 merge window opening in just over one month's time...

NVIDIA Demonstrates Porting Of DirectX Ray-Tracing To Vulkan

Phoronix - Sat, 02/22/2020 - 20:07
Big "open-source" achievements aren't too common for NVIDIA or Microsoft much less together, but thanks to their open-source work on the DXC DirectXCompiler it's possible to easily convert HLSL DXR shaders to SPIR-V for Vulkan...

Google Announces The 200 Open-Source Projects For GSoC 2020

Phoronix - Sat, 02/22/2020 - 19:44
Google's Summer of Code initiative for getting students involved with open-source development during the summer months is now into its sixteenth year. This week Google announced the 200 open-source projects participating in GSoC 2020...

AMDVLK 2020.Q1.2 Released With Vulkan 1.2 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 02/22/2020 - 19:26
AMDVLK 2020.Q1.2 is out as the first official AMD open-source Vulkan Linux driver code drop in one month...

How to install TT-RSS on a Raspberry Pi

opensource.com - Sat, 02/22/2020 - 16:00

Tiny Tiny RSS (TT-RSS) is a free and open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator. It's ideally suited to those who are privacy-focused and still rely on RSS for their daily news. Tiny Tiny RSS is self-hosted software, so you have 100% control of the server, your data, and your overall privacy. It also supports a wide range of plugins, add-ons, and themes, Want a dark mode interface? No problem. Want to filter your incoming news based on keywords? TT-RSS has you covered there, as well.


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Steam Play's Proton 5.0-3 Released With Support For Metro Exodus Direct3D 12 Mode

Phoronix - Sat, 02/22/2020 - 06:35
CodeWeavers working under contract for Valve on their Wine downstream Proton is out with a new update to their Proton 5.0 series...

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