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Habana Labs' Linux AI Driver Causes More Concerns - Changes Dropped Ahead Of Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Mon, 08/23/2021 - 15:00
While Habana Labs has been known for their open-source and upstream Linux kernel driver for their AI training/inference accelerators with that code they had been working on as a start-up even before being acquired by Intel, it's continued to cause friction that they rely in user-space on closed-source components like their compiler. That in turn is again causing problems for changes that the Habana Labs kernel driver planned to land with the upcoming Linux 5.15 cycle...

Write a chess game using bit-fields and masks

opensource.com - Mon, 08/23/2021 - 15:00

Let's say you were writing a chess game in C. One way to track the pieces on the board is by defining a structure that defines each possible piece on the board, and its color, so every square contains an element from that structure. For example, you might have a structure that looks like this:


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How to Install Google Chrome in RedHat-Based Linux Distros

Tecmint - Mon, 08/23/2021 - 14:50
The post How to Install Google Chrome in RedHat-Based Linux Distros first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google Inc. Google Chrome team proudly announced the release of Google Chrome 92 on 16 August 2021. The actual version is 92.0.4515.159 for Linux and

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How to Install PostgreSQL on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux

Tecmint - Mon, 08/23/2021 - 14:35
The post How to Install PostgreSQL on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

PostgreSQL is an immensely popular open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that has been around for over 30 years. It provides SQL language support which is used for managing databases and performing CRUD operations

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10 Screen Command Examples to Manage Linux Terminals

Tecmint - Mon, 08/23/2021 - 14:26
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The screen is a full-screen software program that can be used to multiplexes a physical console between several processes (typically interactive shells). It offers a user to open several separate terminal instances inside a

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How, where and why telco is using enterprise open source

Red Hat News - Mon, 08/23/2021 - 12:00

According to "The State of Enterprise Open Source" report Red Hat published earlier this year, open source will continue to play an important role in the future of telecommunications. Let’s see how it’s positioning telecommunications providers to keep up with their technology revolution.

Reiser4/Reiser5 File-System Driver Updated For Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Mon, 08/23/2021 - 12:00
While Linux 5.14 stable is expected next weekend, the Reiser4 (and experimental Reiser5) file-system driver code has been finally updated for compatibility with the Linux 5.13 kernel series...

Linux On The Apple M1 Can Now Boot To The GNOME Desktop But Lacking Acceleration

Phoronix - Mon, 08/23/2021 - 08:02
Running Linux on the Apple M1 with various out-of-tree patches is now capable of booting to a GNOME desktop albeit lacking any OpenGL/graphics acceleration...

Linux 5.14 Stable Likely Coming Next Weekend, 5.14-rc7 Released Today

Phoronix - Mon, 08/23/2021 - 05:41
The Linux 5.14 cycle is playing out smoothly and will likely lead to the Linux 5.14 stable kernel release happening next weekend...

Intel Posts Patches Bringing Up DG2/Alchemist Discrete Video Memory For Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 08/23/2021 - 01:07
Since the start of July we've seen Intel beginning Linux support patches for their DG2 graphics card that is now known by the "Alchemist" codename. There's been several rounds of DG2 patches since they started publicly pushing out the code -- including some notable work like DisplayPort 2.0 bring-up -- while sent out this Sunday is another important piece of the puzzle: getting the device memory (the dedicated vRAM) actually working with the open-source driver...

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