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Linux's FSCRYPT Working On Encryption + Case-Insensitive Support

Phoronix - Sun, 02/23/2020 - 08:42
FSCRYPT as the file-system encryption framework for the Linux kernel and is currently wired up for EXT4, F2FS, and UBIFS to offer native encryption capabilities is currently seeing improvements so the separate casefolding (case-insensitive) file/folder support can work on encrypted directories...

Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q1.1 for Linux Released

Phoronix - Sun, 02/23/2020 - 02:33
AMD's Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q1.1 Linux driver release was made available this week as their newest quarterly driver installment intended for use with Radeon Pro graphics hardware...

PipeWire 0.3 Released With Redesigned Scheduling Code To Offer JACK2-Like Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 02/22/2020 - 22:08
PipeWire is the Red Hat engineered project aiming to offer better audio/video stream handling on Linux that integrates well with Flatpak and can optimally handle use-cases currently covered by the likes of PulseAudio and JACK. This week marked the release of PipeWire 0.3 as another big step forward for the effort...

A Few More Linux Kernel Patches Floated This Week For AMD Family 19h (Zen 3)

Phoronix - Sat, 02/22/2020 - 21:04
Going back to the start of 2020 we've been seeing a few patches here and there around AMD Family 19h, almost certainly Zen 3. That patch work has continued with a few more bits out this week while hopefully more bring-up is on the horizon ahead of the Linux 5.7 merge window opening in just over one month's time...

NVIDIA Demonstrates Porting Of DirectX Ray-Tracing To Vulkan

Phoronix - Sat, 02/22/2020 - 20:07
Big "open-source" achievements aren't too common for NVIDIA or Microsoft much less together, but thanks to their open-source work on the DXC DirectXCompiler it's possible to easily convert HLSL DXR shaders to SPIR-V for Vulkan...

Google Announces The 200 Open-Source Projects For GSoC 2020

Phoronix - Sat, 02/22/2020 - 19:44
Google's Summer of Code initiative for getting students involved with open-source development during the summer months is now into its sixteenth year. This week Google announced the 200 open-source projects participating in GSoC 2020...

AMDVLK 2020.Q1.2 Released With Vulkan 1.2 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 02/22/2020 - 19:26
AMDVLK 2020.Q1.2 is out as the first official AMD open-source Vulkan Linux driver code drop in one month...

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