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New /dev/random Implementation Hits 35th Revision

Phoronix - Fri, 09/18/2020 - 18:39
Going on for more than four years now has been creating a new /dev/random implementation and this Friday marks the 35th revision to this big set of patches that aim for better performance and security...

Etnaviv Gallium3D Adds On-Disk Shader Cache Support

Phoronix - Fri, 09/18/2020 - 18:24
Etnaviv as the open-source, reverse-engineered OpenGL graphics driver for Vivante graphics IP now has support for an on-disk shader cache...

Add throwing mechanics to your Python game

opensource.com - Fri, 09/18/2020 - 15:01

This is part 12 in an ongoing series about creating video games in Python 3 using the Pygame module. Previous articles are:


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Set up a Wekan kanban server on Linux

opensource.com - Fri, 09/18/2020 - 15:00

Wekan is an open source kanban board application that allows you to manage your daily tasks with (virtual) cards. You can create boards and cards and move them between columns as you make progress on each task. You can also add people who work with you to the tasks on the board. Like other kanban tools, Wekan also allows you to use colored labels on cards to facilitate grouping, filtering, and assigning them to specific people. Because Wekan is open source (distributed under an MIT License), it's easy to modify and use.


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How to Install Windows Subsystem for Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 09/18/2020 - 14:44

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) runs a GNU/Linux Environment which includes most of the command-line utilities and applications on top of Windows OS. Traditionally there are many ways we can set up Linux

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Taiwins 0.2 Released As Modular Wayland Compositor That Supports Lua Scripting

Phoronix - Fri, 09/18/2020 - 12:02
Back in May the Taiwins Wayland compositor was announced as a compact compositor based on Libweston while Thursday marked its second release...

V3DV Developers Lay Out Plans For Upstreaming The Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver In Mesa

Phoronix - Fri, 09/18/2020 - 08:38
Building off the V3DV driver talk at XDC2020 about this open-source Vulkan driver for the Raspberry Pi 4 driver, the Igalia developers responsible for this creation have laid out their plans on getting this driver upstream within Mesa...

Linux 5.9 To Allow Controlling Page Lock Unfairness In Addressing Performance Regression

Phoronix - Fri, 09/18/2020 - 04:14
Following the Linux 5.0 to 5.9 kernel benchmarks on AMD EPYC and it showing the in-development Linux 5.9 kernel regressing in some workloads, bisecting that issue, and that bringing up the issue of the performance regression over page lock fairness a solution for Linux 5.9 has now landed.

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