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Sound Open Firmware 2.9 Released With Major Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 18:21
Sound Open Firmware 2.9 has been released for this open-source project providing audio DSP firmware infrastructure and an adjoining SDK. This effort that started out by Intel for opening up more of their audio hardware firmware has expanded into a multi-vendor project with the likes of AMD and Mediatek also participating around this sound firmware infrastructure, audio driuvers, etc...

How to Install Linux OS on USB Drive and Run it On Any PC

Tecmint - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 12:31
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Have you ever considered using someone else’s computer with all your personal files and settings? Well, it’s possible with any Linux distribution! Yes, you can

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AMD Says They'll Be Open-Sourcing More Of Their GPU Software Stack & Hardware Docs

Phoronix - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 05:10
AMD Radeon posted to Twitter/X that "coming soon" they will be open-sourcing additional portions of their software stack as well as putting out more hardware documentation...

AMD's Longtime Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Advocate Retires

Phoronix - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 02:38
After working at ATI/AMD for more than a quarter century and being the open-source graphics driver manager during the early days, John Bridgman has retired...

PCIe 7.0 Specification v0.5 Published - Full Spec Next Year

Phoronix - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 00:05
The PCI-SIG announced today that they have published their newest revision "version 0.5" of the forthcoming PCI Express 7.0 specification...

Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync

Phoronix - Tue, 04/02/2024 - 23:26
Mesa 24.1's Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code now has support for the Wayland linux-drm-syncobj-v1 protocol for explicit synchronization support...

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