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Rav1e 0.3 Release Brings Speed Optimizations, Other AV1 Encode Enhancements

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2020 - 19:24
As we've been expected, Rav1e 0.3 is now out the door for this open-source Rust-based AV1 encoder that now runs faster at higher encode levels...

Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 0.5 Released With Kata Containers Support, Other Features

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2020 - 17:16
Intel's open-source group continues working on Cloud-Hypervisor as a Rustlang-written hypervisor for modern Linux VMs and building off the shoulders of Google's CrosVM, Firecracker, and Rust-VMM. Cloud-Hypervisor 0.5 was released on Friday as a big update to this cloud-centered hypervisor...

6 open educational resources for learning Spanish

opensource.com - Sat, 02/08/2020 - 16:00

My goal for 2020 is to improve my Spanish, and I intend to use the open educational resources described below to help me along my long path towards fluency. These suggestions are by no means an exhaustive list of resources for learning Spanish. The items included are all open resources, which means they are either shared under an open license or are in the public domain.


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Zink In Mesa For OpenGL Over Vulkan Should Be Back To Supporting OpenGL 3.0 Soon

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2020 - 15:10
Zink, the project going on for almost two years for implementing OpenGL over Vulkan, might soon be exposing OpenGL 3.0 and OpenGL ES 2.0 within mainline Mesa...

LLVM Finally Buttoning Up Its Stack-Clash Protection For x86 CPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2020 - 13:09
It's been nearly three years since the Stack Clash vulnerability was really tossed into the spotlight while such vulnerabilities have existed longer. Now finally in 2020, the LLVM compiler stack -- and years after GCC's mitigation -- is preparing its stack clash protection...

Proton 5.0-1 Released As Valve's Basis For Steam Play Now On Wine 5.0, Latest DXVK

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2020 - 07:16
Valve has just released Proton 5.0-1 as a big upgrade to their Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux under Steam...

Linux 5.6 NFSD Adds Server-To-Server Copy Support

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2020 - 06:10
Following the Linux 5.5 NFS client adding support for server-to-server cross-device offloaded copies, the NFSD side for Linux 5.6 is now enabling its portion of handling server-side copies...

Mesa 20.0-RC2 Brings Many Intel Vulkan + OpenGL Gallium3D Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2020 - 05:40
Following last week's Mesa 20.0 feature freeze and code branching with the first release candidate, the second release candidate is out today for this quarterly Mesa3D update...

GNOME 3.36 Is Looking To Be Another Nice Evolutionary Upgrade To The GNOME Desktop

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2020 - 02:56
GNOME 3.36 is due for release in just over one month's time and is shaping up to be another great release building upon all of the polishing and other evolutionary improvements we've seen particularly over the past two or three years...

AMDGPU Linux Driver Preparing To Better Support Modern HDR/OLED Displays

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2020 - 01:06
It looks like with the Linux 5.7 kernel cycle this spring there should be proper backlight support when using this AMD Radeon kernel graphics driver with modern HDR/OLED displays...

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