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Anyone can draw on Linux with Inkscape

opensource.com - Tue, 12/07/2021 - 16:01

Inkscape is an illustration application, and it works in vectors to ensure limitless resolution for your drawings. Vector illustration is different from freehand illustration. If you're used to drawing freehand, vectors may at first feel restrictive, but once you get used to how vectors get created and how you can use them to construct an image, it's a powerful way to build visuals of all sorts. And if you're not much of an illustrator at all, you might just find that the hands-off approach of vectors means you can draw in Inkscape even though you can't draw with pen and paper.


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Learn more about distributed databases with ShardingSphere

opensource.com - Tue, 12/07/2021 - 16:00

Apache ShardingSphere is an open source distributed database, plus an ecosystem users and developers need for their database to provide a customized and cloud-native experience. In the three years since it joined the Apache Foundation, the ShardingSphere core team has worked hard with the community to create an open source, robust, and distributed database and a supporting ecosystem.


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Best Tools to Install on Fresh Linux Mint Installation

Tecmint - Tue, 12/07/2021 - 14:05
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So, you have just installed a fresh copy of Linux Mint 20 and are ready to make the most of your new system. How do you move forward? In this guide, we will highlight

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Intel's SWR Removed From Mainline Mesa, More Classic Code Cleaning Continues

Phoronix - Tue, 12/07/2021 - 13:00
Last Friday Mesa classic drivers were removed from the mainline code-base and punted off to an "Amber" code branch where they will receive whatever attention moving forward. With that classic Mesa code removed, more code cleaning is now happening on top of the tens of thousands of lines of code already removed. Intel's OpenSWR driver has also now been removed from mainline...

Mesa Begins Trek Bringing Up Arm Mali "Valhall" Graphics

Phoronix - Tue, 12/07/2021 - 05:31
The Panfrost Gallium3D OpenGL driver and PanVK open-source drivers in Mesa have come a long way via reverse-engineering for Arm Mali graphics support. However, to this point the focus has been on Arm's "Midgard" and "Bifrost" architectures while the newer "Valhall" architecture has been around the past two years. The Panfrost effort for bringing up Valhall is now getting underway...

Imagination Announces "Catapult" RISC-V CPU Family

Phoronix - Tue, 12/07/2021 - 03:27
With Imagination Technologies having sold off what was MIPS Technologies several years ago and that CPU architecture having been abandoned now, Imagination today announced "Catapult" as their new family of RISC-V processor IP...

LLVM Clang 14 Lands An "Amazing" Performance Optimization

Phoronix - Tue, 12/07/2021 - 02:54
While the performance of LLVM/Clang has improved a lot over the years and for x86_64 and AArch64 can be neck-and-neck with the GCC compiler, the fierce performance battle is not over. With LLVM/Clang 14.0 due out in the early months of 2022 will be more performance work with one recent commit in particular showing a lot of promise...

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