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Loongson 2K1000 Linux Support Still Getting Brought Up With New Kernel Patches

Phoronix - Wed, 03/10/2021 - 18:55
Chinese MIPS64 vendor Loongson announced the 2K1000 back in 2017 and while it has already been succeeded by more advanced chips in the Loongson 3 series, the Linux driver support for the 2K1000 is still coming together...

How to Work With GitHub Flavored Markdown in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 03/10/2021 - 14:43
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Markdown is a formatting language that is created for the web. The purpose of markdown is to make life easy when we are writing on the internet. Over time there are many flavors of

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Awards roll call: November 2020 to February 2021

Red Hat News - Wed, 03/10/2021 - 13:00

Among 2020’s biggest buzzwords—unprecedented, pivotal, virtual—one emerged as a defining factor of Red Hat’s success amidst the chaos: resilience. Earlier this month, our President and CEO Paul Cormier outlined our path for 2021, which is built upon the resilience of our people and technology.

VirtIO Sound Driver Coming For Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Wed, 03/10/2021 - 13:00
The virtual sound driver for VirtIO has been queued up into the sound-next code ahead of the Linux 5.13 merge window this spring...

NVIDIA 470 Series Driver Looks Like It Will Bring OpenCL 3.0 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/10/2021 - 06:00
We are already quite eager for NVIDIA's 470 series Linux driver due to Wayland / DMA-BUF improvements coming to this next major feature release for their proprietary driver stack. Making it all the more exciting is it looks like the NVIDIA 470 series driver will have OpenCL 3.0 support...

OpenZFS 2.0.4 Released With Linux 5.11 Support, Early Linux 5.12 Compatibility Updates

Phoronix - Wed, 03/10/2021 - 04:48
OpenZFS 2.0.4 is out as the latest version of this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

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