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RADV Driver Improvement Yields More Reasonably Sized Captures For Radeon GPU Profiling

Phoronix - Thu, 12/02/2021 - 20:11
When debugging graphics driver/API issues or performance profiling and relying on shader dumps, the size of such dumps can quickly add up due to all of the state collected, etc, but also inefficiencies when not within contiguous memory. Fortunately for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" for pairing with the Radeon GPU Profiler there is a significant improvement that just landed for yielding smaller file sizes...

Notcurses 3.0 Released For Adding "Bling" To Your Terminal Apps

Phoronix - Thu, 12/02/2021 - 18:43
For those wanting to add some "bling" to your command-line programs to make some "rad" terminal apps, Notcurses 3.0 was released today for designing colorful and complex text-user interfaces. Notcurses allows adding a range of multimedia, Unicode, and other graphics capabilities to command-line applications across Linux / macOS / Windows...

Qt Creator 6 Released For This C++ Focused IDE, Clangd Now Fully-Supported

Phoronix - Thu, 12/02/2021 - 18:16
The Qt Company has officially shipped Qt Creator 6 as the latest major update to their Qt/C++ minded integrated development environment...

Edit video on Linux with Kdenlive

opensource.com - Thu, 12/02/2021 - 16:00

Whether it's due to snow days, a seasonal vacation, or time off for any number of holidays, December is a great time to settle down in front of your computer and get creative. One of my favorite pastimes is cutting video footage together. Sometimes I edit video to tell a story. Other times I edit video to convey a mood or a single idea, and sometimes I do it to provide visuals to music I've either discovered or composed. Maybe it's because I learned to edit film at a school while aiming for a career in the field, or maybe it's just because I like powerful open source tools.


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How to Reset Forgotten Root Password in RHEL/CentOS & Fedora

Tecmint - Thu, 12/02/2021 - 14:05
The post How to Reset Forgotten Root Password in RHEL/CentOS & Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

This article will guide you through simple steps to reset forgotten root password in RHEL-based Linux distributions such as CentOS 8 and Fedora 35/34. Resetting the forgotten root user password generally requires a few

The post How to Reset Forgotten Root Password in RHEL/CentOS & Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Celebrating 15 years of partner leadership with Mark Enzweiler

Red Hat News - Thu, 12/02/2021 - 13:00

Red Hatter Mark Enzweiler is retiring as senior vice president of Global Partners & Alliances after 15 years of leadership. Read on to hear more from Mark on his experiences with Red Hat partners over the years.

One-Line Linux Patch Fixes AMD s2idle Failures For Some Ryzen Laptops

Phoronix - Thu, 12/02/2021 - 13:00
Over the past year there has been a lot of work for getting AMD's suspend-to-idle "s2idle" support in order under Linux and the latest is a one-line code change expected to help at least some Ryzen laptops behave properly...

Steam On Linux Marketshare Edges Tiny Bit Higher In November

Phoronix - Thu, 12/02/2021 - 08:45
With the beginning of a new month comes updated Steam Survey results from Valve for the month prior. The Steam on Linux marketshare continues increasing albeit ever so slightly...

Intel SGX2 / Enclave Dynamic Memory Management Patches Posted For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 12/02/2021 - 07:31
While Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) functionality has been present in CPUs going back to Skylake, it took until last year with Linux 5.11 for SGX support to finally be mainlined and required more than 40 rounds of review/revisions. Finally today Intel posted patches for bringing up SGX2 as the next iteration of Software Guard Extensions and already found in shipping processors...

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