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Intel Appears Ready To Advertise Its DG1 Graphics Card Support On Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 21:20
As I have covered in many Phoronix articles over the past number of months, it's been a lengthy road bringing up the DG1 graphics support on Linux with the Intel open-source engineers having to re-architect their "i915" kernel graphics driver to support device local memory, getting the GuC support into good shape, scheduler changes, beginning to make use of TTM for memory management, user-space API changes, and a ton of other changes in expanding the driver's scope from just catering to integrated graphics. But now it looks like the DG1 Linux support is about to be officially advertised...

AMD Van Gogh Firmware Published, Other Radeon GPU Firmware Updated

Phoronix - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 20:45
AMD has upstreamed the Van Gogh binary-only firmware files necessary for the RDNA2 graphics to be initialized by the open-source driver on this forthcoming APU.'..

Btrfs Set To Land Support For IDMAPPED Mounts In Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 18:48
Introduced to the Linux kernel earlier this year with Linux 5.12 was IDMAPPED mounts that allow for different mounts to expose the same file or directory with different ownership. IDMAPPED mounts was designed with use-cases ranging from containers to systemd-homed and more as outlined in the earlier article. Btrfs is now ready to begin supporting IDMAPPED mounts...

Firefox 92 Beta Takes Flight With AVIF Image Support

Phoronix - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 18:03
With this week's release of Firefox 91, like clockwork the beta for Firefox 92 is now available to facilitate wider testing of this next browser release to debut in September...

Qt Creator 5.0 Nears With New Features

Phoronix - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 17:51
Qt Creator as the Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment from The Qt Company is preparing to release version 5.0 as it prepares to switch to semantic versioning...

35 Practical Examples of Linux Find Command

Tecmint - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 15:14
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The Linux find command is one of the most important and frequently used command command-line utility in Unix-like operating systems. The find command is used to search and locate the list of files and

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A beginner's guide to the Linux terminal

opensource.com - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 15:02

There's a café a few streets away from where I live, and I go there every Sunday for a regularly scheduled game of D&D. They have a menu, and the first few times I ordered, I looked over the menu for several minutes to see what my choices were. Being a creature of habit, I eventually stopped referring to the menu because I knew exactly what they have for sale, and I know exactly what I want.


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Automatically create multiple applications in Argo CD

opensource.com - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 15:01

In a previous article, I demonstrated how Argo CD makes pull-based GitOps deployments simple. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to automatically create multiple applications in Argo CD using Argo CD itself.


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The Linux Kernel Begins Preparing For AV1 Decode Support

Phoronix - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 15:00
The number of hardware platforms providing accelerated AV1 coding is still quite limited for now but with more hardware coming to market supporting encode/decode of this royalty-free video codec, the Linux kernel's media subsystem is getting ready...

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