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Intel Tiger Lake Gen12/Xe Graphics Driver Support Considered Stable With Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 22:21
Over the past year we have seen a steady flow of Intel Tiger Lake "Gen12" graphics enablement for the Linux kernel, their first generation also adopting the Xe Graphics branding as part of their discrete GPU initiative. With the Linux 5.7 kernel this spring will be the first release where the Gen12 graphics support is there by default as a sign of stability...

Wine-Staging 5.4 Released With Additions Around Tasklist, XACT Audio

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 19:20
Hot off yesterday's release of Wine 5.4 with Unicode 13 and text drawing for D3DX9, Wine-Staging 5.4 is now available with more than 850 patches on top of it...

Netflix Talks Up SVT-AV1 Video Encode/Decode Effort

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 18:46
Any regular Phoronix reader should already be quite familiar with SVT-AV1 and the other open-source Scalable Video Technology encoders considering how much we have been benchmarking them -- months before even before they were officially announced. Netflix, which has been working on SVT-AV1 in conjunction with Intel, has an interesting write-up for some weekend reading on the state of this open-source AV1 encoder/decoder...

WSL2 Reaching General Availability In Windows 10 v2004

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 18:32
Microsoft announced in their forthcoming Windows 10 Version 2004 update that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) will be entering general availability status...

Fedora 32 Beta To Be Released Next Week

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 15:08
Fedora 32 Beta was deemed unready for release on Thursday during the initial Go/No-Go meeting but after reconvening twenty-four hours later the remaining blocker bugs were addressed...

Adding a display to a travel-ready Raspberry Pi Zero

opensource.com - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 15:02

In my earlier article, I explained how I transformed a Raspberry Pi Zero into a minimal, portable, go-anywhere computer system that, although small, can actually achieve useful things. I've since made iterations that have proved interesting and made the little Pi even more useful. Read on to learn what I've done.


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Linux Foundation prepares for disaster, new anti-tracking data set, Mozilla goes back to mobile OSes, and more open source news

opensource.com - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 15:01

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the Linux Foundation's disaster relief project, DuckDuckGo's anti-tracking tool, open textbooks, and more!


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How to Set Up NFS Server and Client on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 14:51
Network File System (NFS) also known as client/server file system is a popular, cross-platform and distributed file system protocol used to export local file systems over the network so that clients can share directories...

Fwupd+LVFS Begins Rolling Out Firmware Update Support For NVMe SSDs

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 12:00
Moving forward it will hopefully become easier updating NVMe solid-state drive device firmware under Linux...

Wine 5.4 Released With Unicode 13 Support, Text Drawing For D3DX9 To Fix 10 Year Old Bug

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 04:38
Wine 5.4 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release and it comes with a number of improvements...

AMD AOMP 0.7-7 Released For Radeon OpenMP Offloading

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 03:45
Announced at the end of last year was Radeon Open Compute 3.0 with the new "AOMP" compiler. Today a new version of AOMP has been released for OpenMP offloading support to AMD Radeon GPUs...

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