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FFmpeg Lands Support For NVIDIA AV1 Video Decoding With RTX 30 + NVDEC

Phoronix - Thu, 11/12/2020 - 02:49
Adding to the growing list of changes for the next FFmpeg release is now AV1 video decoding with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards...

Intel's Graphics Driver Now Sharing ~60% Codebase Between Windows/Linux, 90~100% The Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 22:01
Intel today is announcing their Server GPU for the data center based on their Xe-LP microarchitecture with an initial focus on high-density, low-latency Android cloud gaming and media streaming. For as exciting as the Intel Server GPU is, some exciting Intel Linux graphics driver details were also disclosed.

AMD + IBM Team Up To Tackle Confidential Computing

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 20:00
AMD and IBM are this morning announcing a multi-year, joint development agreement focused on "building upon open-source software, open standards, and open system architectures to drive Confidential Computing in the cloud and support a broad range of accelerators across high-performance computing (HPC), and enterprise critical capabilities such as virtualization and encryption."..

GCC 11 Lands Support For Intel AVX-VNNI

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 19:30
GCC 11 feature development is ending very shortly but landing in time are the patches last month for adding AVX-VNNI support...

Mesa 20.3-RC1 Released With Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan, Raspberry Pi V3DV Added

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 19:02
Following the Mesa 20.3 branching on Monday and subsequent opening of Mesa 21.0 for development, the first release candidate of Mesa 20.3 is now available for testing...

How I use Cockpit for my home's Linux server management

opensource.com - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 16:02

Cockpit is a service for Linux that provides a web-based interface for managing and monitoring hosts. It can be deployed in any size organization, even a small office, and it's a great way for home users to maintain the family IT infrastructure. I use it to manage and monitor all of the computers in my house—including Raspberry Pi.

Cockpit is a free and open source software project released under the LGPL v2.1+. It is sponsored by Red Hat and included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the RHEL Web Console.


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