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Learn C by writing a simple game

opensource.com - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 16:00

I taught myself about programming back in elementary school. My first programs were on the Apple II, but eventually, I learned C by reading books and practicing. And the best way to practice programming is to write sample programs that help exercise your new knowledge.


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HDMI Forum Closing Public Specification Access Is Hurting Open-Source GPU Drivers

Phoronix - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 15:57
It's been recently elaborated why the likes of FreeSync support over HDMI aren't coming to the open-source drivers, at least not yet... It stems from the decision by the HDMI Forum to prevent public access to the HDMI specification, which in turn is hurting open-source graphics drivers...

How to Install Apache Kafka in CentOS/RHEL 7

Tecmint - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 15:21

Apache Kafka is a powerful messaging engine, which is widely used in BigData projects and the Data Analytics life cycle. It is an Open-source platform to build real-time data streaming pipelines. It is a

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Panfrost Gallium3D Flips On AFBC For Bifrost GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 13:08
Adding to the long list of changes for Mesa 21.0 is the Panfrost Gallium3D driver that provides open-source OpenGL for Arm Mali graphics hardware now supporting Arm Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC) for Bifrost GPUs...

Benchmarking OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 With Its AMD Zen Optimized Build

Phoronix - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 05:17
While Intel has Clear Linux as an aggressively optimized Linux distribution catering towards their hardware, there isn't a direct equivalent for optimally showcasing the performance potential of current AMD platforms. Clear Linux often offers leading performance on Zen CPUs but that is obviously not by design but just an artifact of a lot in common between the latest Intel and AMD microarchitecture features. One of the few distributions (or only notable one) offering specific AMD Zen optimized builds has been OpenMandriva. With the OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 release candidate shipping this week, I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at how OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 RC1 compares between its generic x86_64 image and that of the Zen optimized build as well as in turn how that performance compares to Clear Linux and Ubuntu 20.10.

Wasmer 1.0 Released As The Universal WebAssembly Runtime Outside The Browser

Phoronix - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 04:08
As we have been expecting in recent weeks, Wasmer 1.0 has been released as the "universal WebAssembly runtime" for helping to accelerate WASM adoption and new use-cases outside of the web browser...

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