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Vulkan 1.2.194 Brings New Extension For Google's Fuchsia OS

Phoronix - Tue, 09/28/2021 - 21:29
Vulkan 1.2.194 is out as the latest spec revision to this high performance graphics and compute API...

Ampere Altra Max M128-30 Linux Performance Preview

Phoronix - Tue, 09/28/2021 - 21:25
The past month we have started our testing of Ampere's Altra Max M128-30, the company's new 128 core server processor, and in this article today are our initial benchmarks of this promising chip for high core count servers in both 1P and 2P configurations tested.

Picolibc Continues Maturing As Very Lightweight C Library For The Embedded World

Phoronix - Tue, 09/28/2021 - 21:00
While Keith Packard is known for his work on X11/X.Org, the past few years he has also been developing Picolibc as a C library intended for embedded systems. He also recently jumped from SiFive to Amazon and appears at the ecommerce giant to be working on Picolibc in an official capacity, presumably for use on Amazon's growing hardware devices...

OmniOS Adds VirtFS File Sharing For Bhyve, Better System Console Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 09/28/2021 - 20:09
The open-source Solaris/Illumos ecosystem certainly isn't vibrant these days like back during the Sun Microsystems times with OpenSolaris, but OmniOS continues progressing as one of the few still-active and useful Solaris/Illumos-powered platforms...

Fedora's Java Packages Have Fallen Into Rough Shape

Phoronix - Tue, 09/28/2021 - 17:51
While many years ago Fedora's Java support was in great shape with quickly integrating OpenJDK going back to IcedTea, these days Fedora's Java packages are barely maintained and largely fallen into disrepair...

Convert your Raspberry Pi into a trading bot with Pythonic

opensource.com - Tue, 09/28/2021 - 15:01

The current popularity of cryptocurrencies also includes trading in them. Last year, I wrote an article How to automate your cryptocurrency trades with Python which covered the setup of a trading bot based on the graphical programming framework Pythonic, which I developed in my leisure. At that time, you still needed a desktop system based on x86 to run Pythonic. In the meantime, I have reconsidered the concept (web-based GUI).


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What is port forwarding?

opensource.com - Tue, 09/28/2021 - 15:01

Port forwarding transfers network traffic from one network listener (called a "port") to another, either on the same computer or a different computer. Ports, in this context, are not physical objects but a software routine listening for network activity.


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Modeling open management practices

opensource.com - Tue, 09/28/2021 - 15:00

In the first part of my interview with Sam Knuth, a fellow Open Organization Ambassador, we discussed how leaders need to make time to be open. Openness isn't effortless.


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