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Canonical Partners With Blender Around Paid LTS Application Support

Phoronix - Wed, 06/23/2021 - 22:31
Ubuntu maker Canonical has partnered up with the Blender Foundation to offer paid enterprise support around the long-term support versions of Blender...

Qt 6.2 Alpha Released With Many More Modules Ported From Qt5

Phoronix - Wed, 06/23/2021 - 20:09
The Qt Company has announced the debut of Qt 6.2 Alpha as it prepares for its September release with many more modules finally making the transition from Qt5 to Qt6...

Linux 5.14 To Support The OpenPOWER Microwatt Soft CPU Core

Phoronix - Wed, 06/23/2021 - 19:00
Announced two years ago was the OpenPOWER Microwatt as an FPGA-based soft CPU core...

Left 4 Dead 2 Vulkan Performance With Radeon Graphics On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 06/23/2021 - 17:45
Last week Valve introduced Vulkan rendering support for Left 4 Dead 2. The L4D2 Vulkan support is similar to that of Portal 2 where DXVK is being leveraged for translating the Direct3D calls to Vulkan rather than relying on their OpenGL translations. For those wondering what this means for L4D2 performance on Linux with modern GPUs, here are some benchmarks of Left 4 Dead 2 when testing the OpenGL and Vulkan rendering options.

Crocus Gallium3D Adds Experimental Intel Gen8 Graphics, Overlapping With Iris Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 06/23/2021 - 15:30
Landing in mainline Mesa 21.2 development code last week was the "Crocus" Gallium3D driver for old Intel hardware spanning from the Intel 965 chipset days "Gen4" up through Crocus supporting Haswell "Gen7" graphics. The i965 to Haswell span has been the focus since the official Intel "Iris" Gallium3D driver already in Mesa supports the Broadwell "Gen8" up through all current Intel UHD/Xe Graphics. But now Crocus with the latest Mesa code has added Gen8 support...

Replace find with fd on Linux

opensource.com - Wed, 06/23/2021 - 15:02

Many Linux programmers use the find command every single day of their career. But find gives a limited set of filesystem entries, and if you have to do a large set of find operations, it's not even very fast. So instead, I prefer to use the Rust fd command because it provides sensible defaults that work for most use cases.


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Parsing config files with Lua

opensource.com - Wed, 06/23/2021 - 15:01

Not all applications need configuration files; many applications benefit from starting fresh each time they are launched. Simple utilities, for instance, rarely require preferences or settings that persist across uses. However, when you write a complex application, it's nice for users to be able to configure how they interact with it and how it interacts with their system. That's what configuration files are for, and this article discusses some of the ways you can implement persistent settings with the Lua programming language.


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Program on FreeDOS with Bywater BASIC

opensource.com - Wed, 06/23/2021 - 15:00

In the early days of personal computing—from the late 1970s and through the 1980s—many people got their start with BASIC programming. BASIC was a universal programming language that came built into most personal computers, from Apple to IBM PCs.

When we started the FreeDOS Project in June 1994, it seemed natural that we should include an open source BASIC environment. I was excited to discover one already existed in Bywater BASIC.


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How to Use Port Knocking To Secure SSH Service in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 06/23/2021 - 14:58
The post How to Use Port Knocking To Secure SSH Service in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Port Knocking is a nifty technique of controlling access to a port by only allowing legitimate users access to the service running on a server. It works in such a way that when the

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14 Best RSS Feed Readers for Linux in 2021

Tecmint - Wed, 06/23/2021 - 14:00
The post 14 Best RSS Feed Readers for Linux in 2021 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

There is a wealth of information on the web that you probably want to keep up to date with; from news to how-tos, guides, tutorials, and more. Imagine having to visit, on a daily

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