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CloudFlare Ditches Nginx For In-House, Rust-Written Pingora

Phoronix - Fri, 09/16/2022 - 02:56
CloudFlare has long relied upon Nginx as part of its HTTP proxy stack but now has replaced it with their in-house, Rust-written Pingora software that is said to be serving over one trillion requests per day and delivering better performance while only using about a third of the CPU and memory resources...

Vulkan 1.3.228 Promotes One Of Valve's Extensions Used For Efficient D3D12 Emulation

Phoronix - Fri, 09/16/2022 - 02:44
The Khronos Group's Vulkan Working Group today released Vulkan API 1.3.228. Aside from the usual assortment of fixes/clarifications to the Vulkan spec, this spec update promotes one of Valve's existing extensions aimed at enhancing Direct3D 12 emulation with Vulkan onto being a formal "EXT" extension...

Godot 4.0 Beta 1 Released With Shiny Vulkan Renderer, Tons Of Other Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 09/16/2022 - 01:45
It was just a few days ago that Godot 4.0 Alpha 17 was released while also announcing that W4 Games as the start-up created by Godot Engine developers has raised $8.5M USD to advance the open-source Godot ecosystem. They are now celebrating by releasing the long-awaited Godot 4.0 beta release...

Microsoft Lands HEVC Video Encode/Decode Within Mesa Using VA-API To Direct3D 12

Phoronix - Fri, 09/16/2022 - 01:31
In addition to Microsoft continuing to work on OpenGL / OpenCL / Vulkan atop Direct3D 12 by leveraging Mesa in order to benefit Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) and related use-cases, Microsoft engineers have also been working on exposing video acceleration to Linux software backed by Direct3D 12 Video Acceleration...

KDE Plasma 5.26 Beta Released With New "Plasma Bigscreen" Interface For TVs

Phoronix - Thu, 09/15/2022 - 22:30
The KDE community has today released the beta of the upcoming Plasma 5.26 desktop...

AMD Engineers Held Several Interesting Talks At This Week's Linux Conferences

Phoronix - Thu, 09/15/2022 - 21:35
While we are used to seeing Intel engineers dominating the speaker lists at various Linux events around the world, it's been a number of years since AMD engineers held multiple presentations like they did this week for the Linux Plumbers Conference and now the Open-Source Summit EU taking place in Dublin, Ireland...

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