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RADV's "ACO" Shader Backend Still Pursuing RadeonSI, Early Work On RDNA 2

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 21:09
Valve developer Timur Kristóf who has been spending the past year working on the AMD Compiler "ACO" back-end for the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" as well as beginning to port this shader compiler back-end to RadeonSI Gallium3D. This alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM back-end has made incredible progress over the past year -- enough so that it's been the default for Mesa's RADV driver. During XDC2020 Day 2, Timur provided an update on ACO...

Intel Releases HAXM 7.6.5 Execution Manager

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 18:56
Intel has debuted a new version of HAXM, its Hardware-Accelerated Execution Manager that serves as an accelerator for the Android Emulator and QEMU via Intel VT enabled CPUs...

What's new with rdiff-backup?

opensource.com - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 15:01

In March 2020, rdiff-backup advanced to version 2, 11 years after the last major release. The deprecation of Python 2 at the beginning of 2020 was the impetus for this update, but it gave the development team the opportunity to incorporate other features and benefits.


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Update devices remotely with open source tools

opensource.com - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 15:00

The ability to access, connect, and manage multiple devices remotely through a single account is important. Going a step further, being able to completely update devices remotely is another way for sysadmins to reduce effort and minimize headaches.


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How to Install Postman on Linux Desktop

Tecmint - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 14:58

Postman is the most popular collaboration platform for API (Application Programming Interface) development, which is used by 10 million developers and 500,000 companies all over the world. The Postman API platform offers features that

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Microsoft Has A Large Presence At This Year's X.Org Conference

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 14:30
Years ago if saying Microsoft would have multiple developers presenting at the annual X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC) as well as being a sponsor, you'd probably raise some laughs. But this year for XDC2020 Gdansk (albeit virtual due to COVID-19), Microsoft engineers gave not just one talk but three on the opening day...

Mesa 20.1.8 Released While Waiting For Mesa 20.2

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 12:55
Mesa 20.2 (or 20.2-RC5) didn't debut last week as intended, but for the interim the Mesa 20.1.x release cycle brought 20.1.8 on Wednesday and now it's been extended to having at least a ninth point release to allow more time until not only Mesa 20.2.0 to ship but Mesa 20.2.1 alignment...

GNOME 40 Aims To Have A Better Extensions Experience

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 12:00
Following Wednesday's release of GNOME 3.38 was the surprising news of GNOME 40 being the next version as well as a new initiative to improve GNOME extensions...

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