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Unity 2020.1 Released With Many Fixes For Vulkan & Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 07/23/2020 - 21:58
Unity 2020.1 is out today as the latest feature release for this popular, cross-platform game engine...

V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Running vkQuake On The Raspberry Pi

Phoronix - Thu, 07/23/2020 - 21:18
It was just at the start of July that the Raspberry Pi 4 "V3DV" Vulkan driver started running more sample code while now it reached the milestone of being able to run vkQuake -- the Vulkan ports for the classic Quake games...

AMDVLK 2020.Q3.2 Radeon Vulkan Driver Christened Early Due To Bugs

Phoronix - Thu, 07/23/2020 - 18:55
While it was just two days ago that AMDVLK 2020.Q3.1 debuted and normally there is a two to three week release cadence for these open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver code drops, this morning was already met by the debut of AMDVLK 2020.Q3.2...

GCC 10.2 Compiler Released With Nearly 100 Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 07/23/2020 - 18:35
Version 10.2 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is now available...

Google Finally Begins Their Open-Source Dance Around Linux User-Space Threading

Phoronix - Thu, 07/23/2020 - 15:17
Way back in 2013 there was a presentation at the Linux Plumbers Conference around Google's work on user-level threads and how they were working on new kernel functionality for using regular threads in a cooperative fashion and building various features off that. Fast forward to today, that functionality has been in use internally at Google for a range of services for latency-sensitive services and greater control over user-space scheduling while now finally in 2020 they are working towards open-sourcing that work...

Automate testing for website errors with this Python tool

opensource.com - Thu, 07/23/2020 - 15:01

As a technical search-engine optimizer, I'm often called in to coordinate website migrations, new site launches, analytics implementations, and other areas that affect sites' online visibility and measurement to limit risk. Many companies generate a substantial portion of monthly recurring revenue from users finding their products and services through search engines. Although search engines have gotten good at handling poorly formatted code, things can still go wrong in development that adversely affects how search engines index and display pages for users.


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Build your own open source alternative to Google Suite with Nextcloud

opensource.com - Thu, 07/23/2020 - 15:00

A few years ago, I installed Nextcloud for a local theatre and museum that was looking for an on-premises cloud solution. As an advocate for open source, I always seek out open source options first, and Nextcloud was the most-common open source cloud solution among my peers. I've also used it for some personal projects, but I hadn't looked at it in a while.


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The Best Linux Distributions for Beginners in 2020

Tecmint - Thu, 07/23/2020 - 14:00
Traditionally, Linux was a reserve for developers, system administrators, and Enterprise users for hosting websites and other applications. There was a time when Linux posed a great deal of complexity to beginners and simply

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