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Valve Announcing Half-Life: Alyx VR Game On Thursday

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2019 - 07:41
Valve has confirmed recent rumors around one of their new virtual reality games in development being Half-Life: Alyx...

Intel's oneAPI / DPC++ / SYCL Will Run Atop NVIDIA GPUs With Open-Source Layer

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2019 - 05:21
With yesterday's much anticipated Intel oneAPI beta being built around open-source standards like SYCL, the "cross-device" support can at least in theory extend beyond just Intel platforms. Codeplay is already showing that's possible with a to-be-open-source layer that will allow oneAPI and SYCL / Data Parallel C++ to run atop NVIDIA GPUs via CUDA...

Intel's Vulkan Driver To Lower CPU Overhead With Mesa 20.0

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2019 - 03:39
A patch series was merged today for the in-development Mesa 20.0 to further lower the CPU overhead of Intel's open-source Vulkan driver...

Intel To Drop Very Old Drivers/BIOS From Their Site, But The Linux Impact To Be Minimal

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2019 - 02:33
Making waves today is that Intel will be removing very old BIOS and driver downloads from their site on or after 22 November. Though these software downloads for the products in question are around ~20 years old so the real-world impact should be small plus with Linux drivers being in the mainline kernel, all you'd really be losing out on are BIOS updates that themselves haven't seen updates in years...

Fedora Developers Looking To Change The Default Text Editor From Vi To Nano

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2019 - 01:30
Fedora will be adding the Nano text editor to their default Fedora Workstation installs as complementary to Vi but their stakeholders intend to submit a system-wide proposal that would change the default installed editor from Vi to Nano...

Google To Require "Designed For Chromebook" Devices Support Fwupd Firmware Updates

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2019 - 00:07
Beginning at the start of the year it looks like Google will be requiring hardware vendors to support firmware updating on Linux via Fwupd with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) if they wish to carry the "Designed For Chromebook" label...

CrossOver 19 Enters Beta With Better Microsoft Office Support On Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 11/18/2019 - 23:43
CodeWeavers' Jeremy White has announced that CrossOver 19 is now in beta for existing customers of this Wine-based software for running Windows programs on Linux and macOS...

AMD Announces Radeon Open Compute ROCm 3.0

Phoronix - Mon, 11/18/2019 - 22:30
AMD just sent out their press release for SuperComputing 19 week in Denver. It turns out being released for SC19 is the latest major iteration of Radeon Open Compute, ROCm 3.0...

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