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Ubuntu Desktop ZFS Install Support Lands In Ubiquity Installer

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 20:05

With less than two weeks to go until the Ubuntu 19.10 release, on Friday the experimental ZFS root file-system install support was merged into the Ubuntu desktop "Ubiquity" installer...

Intel OpenCL Stack Updated Against LLVM/Clang 9.0

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 19:15

Intel's open-source crew on Friday released version 19.39.14278 of their compute/OpenCL runtime...

Intel OpenCL Stack Updated Against LLVM/Clang 9.0

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 19:15

Intel's open-source crew on Friday released version 19.39.14278 of their compute/OpenCL runtime...

Google Has Been Developing "libgav1" As New AV1 Decoder

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 18:59

While there exists DAV1D as one of the most promising AV1 decoders to date, Google has been developing libgav1 as its own AV1 decoder and focused on Arm-powered Android devices but also x86_64 desktop CPUs as well...

Google Has Been Developing "libgav1" As New AV1 Decoder

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 18:59

While there exists DAV1D as one of the most promising AV1 decoders to date, Google has been developing libgav1 as its own AV1 decoder and focused on Arm-powered Android devices but also x86_64 desktop CPUs as well...

How to install Docker ce on Centos 8 or RHEL 8 Linux - H2S Media

Google News - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 17:09

How to install Docker ce on Centos 8 or RHEL 8 Linux H2S Media

How to use yum to install MongoDB 4.0 on CentOS 8 Linux - H2S Media

Google News - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 15:27

How to use yum to install MongoDB 4.0 on CentOS 8 Linux H2S Media

Zink's OpenGL Over Vulkan Implementation Aiming For Mesa 19.3 Integration

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 12:18

For the past year "Zink" has been in development as the OpenGL API implemented over Vulkan and done as a Gallium3D driver. That code by Collabora's Erik Faye-Lund will likely be merged to Mesa 19.3 in the coming weeks...

Zink's OpenGL Over Vulkan Implementation Aiming For Mesa 19.3 Integration

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 12:18

For the past year "Zink" has been in development as the OpenGL API implemented over Vulkan and done as a Gallium3D driver. That code by Collabora's Erik Faye-Lund will likely be merged to Mesa 19.3 in the coming weeks...

AMD Ryzen Embedded SBC Supports 4x 4K Displays Ready for Linux and Windows - CNX Software

Google News - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 11:25

AMD Ryzen Embedded SBC Supports 4x 4K Displays Ready for Linux and Windows CNX Software

AMDGPU Performance In Linux 5.4 Is Now Faster With "Bulk Moves" Landed

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 07:42

Linux 5.4 is already exciting with its many new features and changes but was made even more so on Friday night with the honoring of the latest DRM fixes pull request that includes the "fix" of enabling LRU bulk moves for the AMDGPU DRM driver!..

AMDGPU Performance In Linux 5.4 Is Now Faster With "Bulk Moves" Landed

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 07:42

Linux 5.4 is already exciting with its many new features and changes but was made even more so on Friday night with the honoring of the latest DRM fixes pull request that includes the "fix" of enabling LRU bulk moves for the AMDGPU DRM driver!..

DXVK 1.4.2 Released With Fix For Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 05:48

DXVK 1.4.2 is out as another weekly update to this Direct3D 11 over Vulkan translation library used by Wine / Proton for accelerating Windows games on Linux...

Canonical Releases Major Kernel Security Update for Ubuntu 19.04 and 18.04 LTS - Softpedia News

Google News - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 04:18

Canonical Releases Major Kernel Security Update for Ubuntu 19.04 and 18.04 LTS Softpedia News

Essential Commands to Learn for Your Raspberry Pi Projects - PCMag

Google News - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 03:50

Essential Commands to Learn for Your Raspberry Pi Projects PCMag

Fedora drops 32-bit Linux - ZDNet

Google News - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 01:30

Fedora drops 32-bit Linux ZDNet

It Looks Like HDMI FreeSync/VRR For Linux + Wayland Support Will Eventually Come For AMD

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 00:57

AMD provided an update on their Linux FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync support at this week's X.Org Developers Conference event in Montreal. There's good news both for HDMI and Wayland Linux users with Radeon graphics...