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PulseAudio Adds GStreamer-Powered RTP Implementation

Phoronix - Sun, 11/10/2019 - 03:20
As an alternative to PulseAudio's existing RTP implementation, a new GStreamer-based Real-Time Transport Protocol has been introduced...

OpenZFS 2.0 Out In 2020 With Unified Linux/FreeBSD Support, OpenZFS 3.0 With macOS

Phoronix - Sun, 11/10/2019 - 02:21
Taking place this past week in San Francisco was the annual OpenZFS Developer Summit. As usual, Matthew Ahrens as the co-founder of Sun ZFS and current OpenZFS contributor at Delphix talked about the state of the open-source ZFS efforts in his keynote...

EXT4 File-System Picking Up New Direct I/O Read Implementation

Phoronix - Sun, 11/10/2019 - 00:41
Among other EXT4 file-system changes en route for the upcoming Linux 5.5 kernel is a new direct I/O read implementation...

Linux Sees Fix For "Critical" Scheduler Bug Introduced A Few Months Ago

Phoronix - Sun, 11/10/2019 - 00:04
Coming out Friday night was a series to address a "critical" scheduler issue with the Linux kernel...

AMD Volleys Another Batch Of Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 5.5

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2019 - 22:41
While the Linux 5.4 cycle is quickly winding down and with DRM-Next's cut-off crossing, AMD has sent in a last minute batch of changes it's targeting for the upcoming Linux 5.5 merge window...

HMEM Device Driver Coming For Linux 5.5

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2019 - 22:18
Intel's HMEM DAX driver is being added to Linux 5.5 for use-cases like their Optane DC Persistent Memory...

Rav1e 0.1 Marks This Rust-Written AV1 Encoder's First Official Release

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2019 - 20:59
Rav1e has been in development for more than one year now as the "safest and fastest AV1 encoder" thanks to being written in Rust while now their first official release is available...

Google's trusted hardware initiative is open source, pixel-precise postal codes, and more open source news

opensource.com - Sat, 11/09/2019 - 16:00

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Google's trusted hardware initiative, Australia's open source notification service, pixel-precise postal codes, and more!


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Radeon Software For Linux Updated With Radeon RX 5500 Series Support

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2019 - 13:08
Radeon Software for Linux 19.30 has been the driver release branch since July for the AMD Linux packaged driver stack. That 19.30 driver was introduced with the AMD Radeon RX 5700 "Navi" support while now a slightly updated stack was released...

Valve's Proton 4.11-8 Begins Bundling VKD3D, Improves Rockstar Launcher Support

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2019 - 11:00
Valve earlier today pushed out Proton 4.11-8 as the newest update to their Wine-based software powering Steam Play for handling Windows games on Linux...

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