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Dbus-Broker 28 Released

Phoronix - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 23:17
With still no sign of BUS1 on the horizon for the mainline kernel or any other successor to BUS1 or KDBUS for in-kernel IPC, Dbus-Broker remains the best bet currently in 2021 for a more performant D-Bus implementation while retaining compatibility with the D-Bus reference implementation...

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Linux Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 21:00
At the start of March AMD announced the Radeon RX 6700 XT as their new RDNA2 graphics card starting out at $479 USD. Tomorrow the RX 6700 XT is going on sale while today marks the embargo lift on reviews. We have been testing the Radeon RX 6700 XT over the past two weeks and have up our initial Linux support experience and gaming benchmark results to share.

RADV Lands Another Navi Optimization In Mesa 21.1 To Help With MSAA Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 20:17
The developers working on the RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for Mesa are relentless in their quest for delivering optimal performance. Hitting Mesa 21.1 today were another set of patches for enhancing the MSAA anti-aliasing performance for GFX10 (Navi 1x / Navi 2x) graphics cards...

Steam Adds Support For The Single-File Mesa Shader Cache

Phoronix - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 17:47
It was less than one month ago that Valve developers added a new "single file" cache option for Mesa as an alternative to its existing multi-file cache. Valve now with their latest Steam for Linux beta is supporting this new single-file cache for faster performance...

LFCA: Learn Basic Linux System Commands – Part 3

Tecmint - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 15:27
The post LFCA: Learn Basic Linux System Commands – Part 3 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

This article is Part 3 of the LFCA series, here in this part, we will list 24 of the most widely used Linux system administration commands that are required for the LFCA certification exam.

The post LFCA: Learn Basic Linux System Commands – Part 3 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Track aircraft with a Raspberry Pi

opensource.com - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 15:02

I live near a major airport, and I frequently hear aircraft flying over my house. I also have a curious preschooler, and I find myself answering questions like, "What's that?" and "Where's that plane going?" often. While a quick internet search could answer these questions, I wanted to see if I could answer them myself.


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Programming 101: Input and output with Java

opensource.com - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 15:01

When you write a program, your application may need to read from and write to files stored on the user's computer. This is common in situations when you want to load or store configuration options, you need to create log files, or your user wants to save work for later. Every language handles this task a little differently. This article demonstrates how to handle data files with Java.


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DevOps tool K6’s journey to open source

opensource.com - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 15:00

Robin Gustafsson, CEO of K6, an open source load-impact service, joined Ben Rometsch, CEO of Flagsmith, an open source feature-flagging product, on episode 8 of The Craft of Open Source podcast.


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My favorite open source project management tools

opensource.com - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 15:00

Projects like building a satellite, developing a robot, or launching a new product are all expensive, involve different providers, and contain hard dependencies that must be tracked.


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