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ZFS On Linux 0.8.2 Released With Linux 5.3 Compatibility, Many Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 09/27/2019 - 12:07
ZFS On Linux 0.8.2 is out with fixes in order to provide compatibility with the brand new Linux 5.3 stable kernel while retaining support still going back to the Linux 2.6.32 days...

SVT-AV1 0.7 Released For Speedy AV1 Video Encoding With More AVX2/AVX512 Optimizations

Phoronix - Fri, 09/27/2019 - 08:00
The engineers maintaining Intel's open-source Scalable Video Technology (SVT) encoders today released SVT-AV1 0.7 as the newest feature update to their speedy AV1 video encoder...

Richard Stallman To Continue As Head Of The GNU Project

Phoronix - Fri, 09/27/2019 - 04:33
While Richard Stallman resigned as president of the Free Software Foundation last week, he just announced he'll be continuing as head of the GNU Project...

Microsoft Developer Shows Linux Commands Seamlessly Integrated Within Windows PowerShell

Phoronix - Fri, 09/27/2019 - 03:48
While Windows itself has begun offering Tar and OpenSSH support among other integration improvements for traditional Linux administrators, it's possible to seamlessly integrate Linux commands within the PowerShell thanks to some features of PowerShell intermixed with Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux...

Steam Fixes Up Handling For Games With Vulkan Async Compute

Phoronix - Fri, 09/27/2019 - 02:34
A Steam beta update out today is notable for Linux gamers to avoid possible GPU crashes and corruption of the Steam overlay...

Rust 1.38 Supports Pipelined Compilation For Building Dependent Crates Sooner

Phoronix - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 23:53
Today marks the release of Rust 1.38 as the latest stable update for this increasingly popular, memory-safe programming language...

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