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The Current State Of Intel Discrete Graphics On Linux: Almost "Fully Functional"

Phoronix - Fri, 09/17/2021 - 21:25
Along with bringing up DG2/Alchemist graphics card support on Linux, Intel engineers have been working to square away their support for the DG1 developer graphics card. This week thanks to XDC2021 is a fresh status update about what is working with this initial Intel graphics card on their open-source driver and what remains in the works...

The Increasing Importance Of ACPI Platform Profiles With Today's Throttle-Happy Hardware

Phoronix - Fri, 09/17/2021 - 20:58
As covered several times going back to the end of last year, ACPI Platform Profile support has materialized in recent versions of the Linux kernel for the core infrastructure and implementations that work with the latest laptops from the likes of Dell, Lenovo, ASUS, and HP. This platform profile support is becoming increasingly important with expressing your power/cooling/performance preference so that your laptop behaves as one would expect...

LVFS Serves Up 2+ Million Firmware Downloads In The Past Month

Phoronix - Fri, 09/17/2021 - 19:54
The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) in conjunction with FWUPD for offering easy-to-deploy firmware updates on Linux continues its meteoric rise...

KWinFT Continues Working On WLROOTS Render, Library Split

Phoronix - Fri, 09/17/2021 - 17:55
KWinFT as a fork of KDE's KWin X11/Wayland compositor code continues making progress on driving fundamental display improvements and ironing out the Wayland support...

Multiple Games Are Now Working With RADV's Ray-Tracing Code

Phoronix - Fri, 09/17/2021 - 17:00
Not only is Intel progressing with its open-source ray-tracing driver support but the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has been rounding out its RT code too and now has multiple games correctly rendering...

Organize your Magic: The Gathering decks with Magic Assistant

opensource.com - Fri, 09/17/2021 - 15:00

The world's first trading card game was Magic: The Gathering, first published in 1993.

It remains popular today because of its great flexibility. With more than 25,000 unique cards published over nearly three decades, there are enough cards for players to build hundreds of different decks for surprisingly unique gameplay experiences.


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Start using YAML now

opensource.com - Fri, 09/17/2021 - 15:00

YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language) is a human-readable data serialization language. Its syntax is simple and human-readable. It does not contain quotation marks, opening and closing tags, or braces. It does not contain anything which might make it harder for humans to parse nesting rules. You can scan your YAML document and immediately know what's going on.

YAML features

YAML has some super features which make it superior to other serialization formats:


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