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H.264/H.265 Vulkan Encoder Support Merged Into FFmpeg

Phoronix - Thu, 09/19/2024 - 01:08
The FFmpeg multimedia library continues to enhance its support around the Vulkan Video APIs with the latest commits seeing H.264 and H.265/HEVC Vulkan encode support merged...

GNOME 47 Released With Accent Colors, Improved Apps & More

Phoronix - Wed, 09/18/2024 - 23:35
GNOME 47 is out today as the latest major update to this popular open-source desktop environment...

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs. Radeon PRO Performance On Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS

Phoronix - Wed, 09/18/2024 - 21:25
For those wondering about the performance of the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation workstation performance on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with the up-to-date NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers now relying on the open-source kernel modules, this article is for you in looking at the performance of this high-end workstation graphics card on the up-to-date Linux software stack. The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation is tested alongside the RTX 2000 / 4000 Ada Generation graphics cards and also the AMD Radeon PRO W7000 series competition atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Linux 6.12 Adds Build Options For Greater Control Over CPU Security Mitigations

Phoronix - Wed, 09/18/2024 - 20:00
Not to be confused with the proposal a few days ago by an AMD engineer for Attack Vector Controls for broader control over CPU security mitigation handling, the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel is adding new Kconfig options to allow for more build-time control over what CPU security mitigation code is compiled for the kernel...

Many Intel & AMD Power Management Improvements For Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Wed, 09/18/2024 - 19:00
The big set of power management updates for Linux 6.12 have landed...

Intel Compute Runtime Offers "Preview" Support For Lunar Lake

Phoronix - Wed, 09/18/2024 - 18:00
Intel Compute Runtime 24.35.30872.22 released today as the newest tagged version of this open-source GPU compute stack providing oneAPI Level Zero and OpenCL support for Linux and Windows systems...

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