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Intel Looking To Upstream A Proper SPIR-V Compute Back-End For LLVM

Phoronix - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 21:46
It's been talked about many times from various parties but so far has remained elusive from the mainline LLVM code-base: a SPIR-V back-end for LLVM that would go from LLVM into this Khronos intermediate representation most notably used by OpenCL and Vulkan drivers. Intel engineers are stepping up and hope to help get a proper SPIR-V back-end upstreamed into LLVM...

IBM Begins Adding GCC Support For Z Arch14 - Likely IBM z16

Phoronix - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 20:30
GCC compiler patches began appearing this morning for IBM Z "Arch14" as a future architecture extension for their Z mainframe processors. IBM Z Arch14 will likely correlate to IBM z16...

New NTFS Driver Misses Out On Linux 5.12 But Revved A 22nd Time

Phoronix - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 19:13
While Linux 5.12 has many great new features, what you won't find in the mainline kernel is the new "NTFS3" kernel driver developed by Paragon Software for NTFS file-systems. That driver is still coming for a future kernel and has now been sent out a twenty-second time for review...

RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Option To Force Smart Access Memory Behavior

Phoronix - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 19:00
The latest "Smart Access Memory" work by the open-source AMD Radeon graphics driver stack is an option for the RADV Vulkan driver to force the "SAM" behavior even if the system is not advertising all the video RAM as visible or even if using APU graphics...

Monitor your Raspberry Pi with Grafana Cloud

opensource.com - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 16:02

You may have heard of Grafana, a time-series dashboarding tool that helps you discover what's going on in your environment. People from hobbyists to enterprise professionals like to use it for visualizations because it is open source and can accept data from myriad sources. This article describes how to use it to monitor your Raspberry Pi as an example of Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring.


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Learn Java with object orientation by building a classic Breakout game

opensource.com - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 16:01

As a second-semester student in systems and digital media at the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil, I was given the assignment to remake the classic Atari 2600 Breakout game from 1978. I am still in my infancy in learning software development, and this was a challenging experience. It was also a gainful one because I learned a lot, especially about applying object-oriented concepts.


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3 features that debuted in Python 3.0 you should use now

opensource.com - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 16:00

This is the first in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Python 3.0 was first released in 2008, and even though it has been out for a while, many of the features it introduced are underused and pretty cool. Here are three you should know about.


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How to Speed Up Nginx with Varnish Cache on CentOS 7

Tecmint - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 14:27
The post How to Speed Up Nginx with Varnish Cache on CentOS 7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Varnish Cache (also referred to as Varnish) is an open-source, high-performance HTTP accelerator designed for speeding up web servers. In our last articles, we’ve explained how to setup Varnish Cache for Apache on CentOS

The post How to Speed Up Nginx with Varnish Cache on CentOS 7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

How to Speed Up Apache with Varnish Cache on CentOS 7

Tecmint - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 13:35
The post How to Speed Up Apache with Varnish Cache on CentOS 7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Varnish Cache (commonly known as Varnish), is an open-source, popular reverse-proxy HTTP accelerator intended for speeding up web servers. It is engineered for excessively utilized API endpoints and also for dynamic sites that serve

The post How to Speed Up Apache with Varnish Cache on CentOS 7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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