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Linux Seeing Support For Another ~$230 ARM Handheld Game Console

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 18:25
There's been no shortage of cheap, ARM-based handheld game consoles coming to market. Given Linux on Arm tending to work better than Windows and in keeping vendor costs to a minimum, they've tended to be running Linux or Android with various open-source games/emulators. Many of the vendors have kept their Linux support downstream while with time more of these gaming handheld consoles are seeing mainline Linux support. Yet another one being worked on for mainline Linux kernel support is the GameForce Ace...

Linux's Turbostat Utility Can Now Be Used For Reading Intel PMT Counters

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 18:16
Merged on Sunday prior to tagging the first release candidate of Linux 6.11 were some last minute updates to Turbostat, the tool that lives within the kernel source tree and used for reporting CPU frequency and idle statistics along with other useful metrics. With Linux 6.11, Turbostat is gaining some new abilities...

SDL3 Library Adds A Built-In Snake Game

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 18:07
For those enjoying the classic game Snake (Blockade) or rather wanting to learn about the SDL3 API to develop your own software using this cross-platform software/hardware abstraction library, a game of Snake has been added to the SDL3 repository to serve as a more full-featured example...

TrueNAS: Create Own “Home Media Streaming Server” Using Plex – Part 3

Tecmint - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 15:00
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Everyone has a collection of movies, songs, music videos, pictures, and more. Many people wonder how they can stream this

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Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake & Battlemage Graphics Might Be Officially Supported With Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 08:30
While the Linux 6.11 merge window ended just days ago, Intel engineers are already beginning to submit kernel graphics driver changes to the DRM-Next branch of material they want to get in for the Linux 6.12 cycle that will end out 2024. Notable is they are trying to wrap up the Xe2 graphics support for Lunar Lake and Battlemage discrete graphics so that the support can be exposed by default...

oneAPI Construction Kit 4.0 Brings RISC-V Host CPU Support

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 03:35
Last year the oneAPI Construction Kit was introduced by Intel-owned Codeplay Software for bringing SYCL to new hardware even for hardware outside of Intel's offerings. One of the early targets of this oneAPI Construction Kit support was for RISC-V processors and now with today's release of oneAPI Construction Kit 4.0 there is finally RISC-V host CPU support...

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