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Better Support & Performance For OpenACC Kernels Is Coming To GCC

Phoronix - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 18:40
While the GNU Compiler Collection has supported OpenACC for a few years now as this parallel programming standard popular with GPUs/accelerators, the current implementation has been found to be inadequate for many real-world HPC workloads leveraging OpenACC. Fortunately, Siemens has been working to improve GCC's OpenACC kernels support...

Aya Makes It Easy To Write Rust-Based eBPF Programs For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 17:57
Aya was presented during this week's Linux Plumbers Conference for improving the eBPF developer experience by allowing Rust programs to easily run within the kernel...

Ubuntu Touch OTA-19 Released - Still Based On Ubuntu 16.04

Phoronix - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 15:40
UBports on Tuesday released Ubuntu Touch OTA-19 as the latest refinement to this Ubuntu Linux spin for smartphones and tablets...

My favorite LibreOffice productivity tips

opensource.com - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 15:01

LibreOffice is my productivity application of choice. It's one of the most potent reasons for recommending Linux distributions to educators and students, whether PK-12 or higher education. Now that the school year is upon us, I thought I would recommend some LibreOffice shortcuts and tips that might save you valuable time.

Work faster with keyboard shortcuts

I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts. Here are the most common shortcuts that apply to all LibreOffice applications.


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Add storage with LVM

opensource.com - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 15:00

Logical Volume Manager (LVM) allows for a layer of abstraction between the operating system and the hardware. Normally, your OS looks for disks (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, and so on) and partitions within those disks (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, and so on).


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How to Install SQL Server in RHEL, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux

Tecmint - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 13:42
The post How to Install SQL Server in RHEL, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

On March 7, 2016, Microsoft announced the introduction of the MS SQL server in Linux systems. The goal was to deliver more flexibility for users and to do away with vendor lock-in with the

The post How to Install SQL Server in RHEL, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Mesa 21.2.2 Released "Late & Very Large"

Phoronix - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 12:00
Mesa point releases generally come every two weeks but for the past month have fallen off the wagon. Mesa 21.2.1 came in mid-August and on Tuesday was finally succeeded by Mesa 21.2.2 as a "late and very large" update...

X.Org Server 21.1 RC1 Released With VRR Support For Modesetting Driver, Other Features

Phoronix - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 06:55
More than three years after X.Org Server 1.20 was released, it's set to finally be succeeded soon by X.Org Server 21.1 under its new versioning scheme. Out today is the X.org Server 21.1 release candidate...

AMDGPU Linux Driver To Overhaul Its Approach To Device Enumeration

Phoronix - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 05:00
AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers are working to overhaul how the initial driver loading with device enumeration happens to ultimately make it more robust. In the process though PCI IDs become less important and in turn less of an avenue for exposing possible indicators of new graphics cards...

Cycles X Merged Into Blender 3.0 With NVIDIA CUDA/OptiX Support, AMD HIP Pending

Phoronix - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 03:33
Cycles X as a modernizing of Blender's Cycles rendering engine has now landed in the latest development code for Blender 3.0. Cycles X brings big performance improvements but does eliminate OpenCL support in the process...

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