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Linux 5.5 Bringing A New System76 ACPI Driver For Their Coreboot-Enabled Laptops

Phoronix - Sat, 10/26/2019 - 22:00
Slated for introduction with the upcoming Linux 5.5 kernel is a System76 ACPI driver needed for their new laptops that are now shipping with an open-source Coreboot firmware implementation...

Valve Adds RADV "Secure Compile" Support For Pre-Caching Game Shaders

Phoronix - Sat, 10/26/2019 - 20:10
The latest feature contribution by Valve's Linux driver developers to the open-source RADV driver is a "secure compile" feature...

AMD Sends In Another Batch Of Feature Changes For Linux 5.5 AMDGPU Driver Code

Phoronix - Sat, 10/26/2019 - 19:24
Complementing the big AMDGPU feature pull request from two weeks ago, on Friday AMD sen out a second batch of features targeting the upcoming Linux 5.5 kernel merge window...

NVIDIA Extends GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE To Work With Vulkan Apps, Better RAM Reclamation

Phoronix - Sat, 10/26/2019 - 18:58
NVIDIA on Friday released the 435.27.02 Linux beta driver that features a few Vulkan updates...

Rav1e Rust AV1 Encoder Adds SSSE3 Support, AArch64 NEON - But It's Still Slow

Phoronix - Sat, 10/26/2019 - 18:50
The Xiph rav1e AV1 video encoder written in the Rust programming language recently picked up more optimizations among other improvements...

RADV Vulkan Driver's ACO Compiler Back-End Has Navi/GFX10 Nearly Squared Away

Phoronix - Sat, 10/26/2019 - 18:33
Following a lot of work on the AMD "ACO" compiler back-end to the RADV Vulkan driver for GFX10/Navi, this experimental alternative to AMDGPU LLVM is about ready to go for these newest AMD graphics processors...

Netflix builds a Jupyter Lab alternative, a bug bounty to fight election hacking, Raspberry Pi goes microscopic, and more open source news

opensource.com - Sat, 10/26/2019 - 15:01

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at a machine learning tool from Netflix, Microsoft's election software bug bounty, a cost-effective microscope built with Raspberry Pi, and more!


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What's the best Linux distribution for beginners?

opensource.com - Sat, 10/26/2019 - 15:00

There are hundreds of different Linux distributions, each meeting the unique needs of its users. This diversity of distributions is what makes Linux the preferred operating system, but choosing the best one to get started can be quite daunting. First-timers need to take into consideration hardware, internet connection, installation method, desktop environment, support community, and more. So which one should a beginner choose? Take our Linux poll!


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SiFive U8-Series To Offer Much Greater RISC-V Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 10/26/2019 - 03:12
There is much greater performance potential out of RISC-V now with SiFive having announced the U8-Series...

MPV Player 0.30 Released For This Advanced Open-Source Video Player

Phoronix - Fri, 10/25/2019 - 23:38
MPV 0.30 is out as the newest release to this cross-platform, open-source video player derived from MPlayer/mplayer2...

Ubuntu 19.04 vs. 19.10 Performance On High-End AMD/Intel Desktop CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 10/25/2019 - 21:21
For those curious how the Ubuntu 19.04 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 performance is looking for higher-end Intel/AMD desktops, here are some fresh benchmarks.

VirtualBox 6.1 Beta 2 Released As Oracle's Next Virtualization Update Approaches

Phoronix - Fri, 10/25/2019 - 20:08
Oracle today released their second public beta of the forthcoming VirtualBox 6.1 virtualization software...

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