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Vulkan 1.2.203 Released With Many Documentation Updates, New Extensions

Phoronix - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 20:36
Vulkan 1.2.203 is out with many fixes/updates to the specification documentation to end out the year as well as introducing three new extensions...

helloSystem 0.7 Released With Big Improvements For This Leading Desktop BSD OS

Phoronix - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 18:32
For those with extra time around the end-of-year holidays, helloSystem 0.7 is now available as the newest update to this leading BSD-based desktop operating system that is inspired by Apple macOS but powered by FreeBSD...

AVX-Optimized SM3 Hashing For The Linux Kernel Nets Up To 38% Improvement

Phoronix - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 18:06
An Alibaba engineer is proposing a standalone SM3 crypto library within the Linux kernel and with optimizations for x86_64 AVX usage nets up to a 38% performance improvement for this crypto algorithm...

10 Wget (Linux File Downloader) Command Examples in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 16:29
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In this article, we are going to review the wget utility which retrieves files from World Wide Web (WWW) using widely used protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and FTPS. Wget is a free command-line

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Open source design collaboration with Penpot

opensource.com - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 16:00

When a team of designers works together on a project, one of the most important goals is consistency. Whether you need a consistent look because of a corporate identity or just for visual cohesion, the look and layout of pages and screens must be reasonably similar within any given project. It's hard enough to do this as a solo artist, and it gets more complex with added contributors. It becomes a monumental task when several mock-ups from a design team must be approved by a client, signed off by an accessibility expert, and then translated by a team of programmers.


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OpenBLAS 0.3.19 Released With Alder Lake & Sapphire Rapids Detection

Phoronix - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 13:00
OpenBLAS as the popular, open-source BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) library implementation posted its newest release on Sunday...

Linux 5.16-rc6 Kernel Released

Phoronix - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 08:00
Linus Torvalds has released the sixth weekly release candidate of Linux 5.16 for testing this Christmas week...

AMD P-State CPU Frequency Control Driver Revised A 6th Time

Phoronix - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 01:10
Making a Sunday debut are the amd-pstate v6 patches as the latest iteration of this work for improving the AMD CPU frequency control behavior on Linux for more optimized power efficiency with modern Zen 2 / Zen 3 series (and future) processors...

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