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AMD RDNA2 Vulkan: RADV vs. RADV+NGGC vs. AMDVLK vs. PRO Driver Benchmarks

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 21:00
Following last week's Radeon RX 6600 XT launch, here are benchmarks of the Radeon RX 6600 XT / RX 6700 XT / RX 6800 XT graphics cards across all of the Vulkan driver options available to Linux users.

VA-API AV1 Decode Lands In Mesa 21.3 Gallium3D

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 20:00
The change led by AMD engineers for adding AV1 VA-API acceleration support to the Gallium3D "VA" state tracker front-end has landed in Mesa 21.3...

Mesa 21.3 LLVMpipe Enables OpenGL 4.5 Compatibility Profile Support

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 18:07
The LLVMpipe driver providing a generic OpenGL implementation that's CPU-accelerated for Mesa - and more performant than alternatives thanks to LLVM - can now support OpenGL 4.5 compatibility profile contexts...

Fedora 35 Cleared For Golang 1.17, LLVM 13

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 17:45
While getting late in the cycle, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee approved some additional changes for Fedora 35 due out this fall...

Ubuntu 21.10 Systemd To Finally Ship With Cgroup v2 By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 17:25
Ubuntu developers acknowledge "delaying this for a long time" but for Ubuntu 21.10 they are planning to ship its systemd package with the unified cgroup hierarchy (Cgroups v2) by default...

27 Best IDEs for C/C++ Programming or Source Code Editors on Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 16:39
The post 27 Best IDEs for C/C++ Programming or Source Code Editors on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

C++, an extension of well known C language, is an excellent, powerful and general-purpose programming language that offers modern and generic programming features for developing large-scale applications ranging from video games, search engines, other

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How to Install Docker on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux

Tecmint - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 15:14
The post How to Install Docker on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Docker is a hugely popular containerization platform tool that allows users to develop, test and deploy applications in a smooth and efficient manner inside containers. A container is a lightweight and portable unit that

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4 alternatives to cron in Linux

opensource.com - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 15:01

The Linux cron system is a time-tested and proven technology. However, it's not always the right tool for system automation. There are a few other open source projects out there that can be used either in conjunction with cron or instead of cron.


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