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Godot 4.4 Dev 1 Brings Renderer Improvements, Betsy Texture Compression

Phoronix - Tue, 08/27/2024 - 08:32
The Godot open-source, cross-platform game engine continues advancing wonderfully as an alternative to the more well established but proprietary and commercial-focused game engines. Godot 4.4 Dev 1 released today as the first tagged development snapshot toward the next version of this great game engine...

Cemu 2.1 Emulator Released With Flatpaks & AppImage For Linux, Initial Wayland Support

Phoronix - Tue, 08/27/2024 - 04:07
Cemu is the Wii U emulator that went open-source and began building on Linux two years ago. Since then they've continued building up their Linux support and out today is the Cemu 2.1 emulator release with even better Linux support...

AmpereOne A192-32X Benchmarks: 192 Core ARM Server Performance & Power Efficiency

Phoronix - Mon, 08/26/2024 - 22:45
Last week an AmpereOne server finally arrived at Phoronix! Ampere Computing sent over a reviewer server of the AmpereOne A192-32X flagship AArch64 server processor with 192 custom cores and using a Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD platform. I have been carrying out a number of benchmarks for this much-anticipated AArch64 cloud native processor and have initial performance and power efficiency metrics to share today to see how it compares to prior Ampere Altra Max as well as the Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC server competition.

Sovereign Tech Fund Announces Significant Investment Into FreeBSD

Phoronix - Mon, 08/26/2024 - 22:08
In addition to the recent news of AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborating over improvements, some more good news for this leading BSD open-source project is the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) now beginning to invest in FreeBSD...

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