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Open-Source NVIDIA Support For Recent GPUs Is Poor But Now You Can Fake It For Testing

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 22:07
The open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Gallium3D code within Mesa has wired up DRM shim support for basically faking the support in the absence of real hardware. This is mainly useful for testing the Nouveau OpenGL shader compiler code path without any actual code execution...

GTK 4.0.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes, Better Media Acceleration

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 19:16
Following last month's release of the big GTK 4.0 toolkit, GTK 4.0.1 is out as the first stable point release for this free software toolkit...

F2FS With Linux 5.12 To Allow Configuring Compression Level

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 16:28
While the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) allows selecting between your choice of optional compression algorithms like LZO, LZ4, and Zstd -- plus even specifying specific file extensions to optionally limit the transparent file-system compression to -- it doesn't allow easily specifying a compression level. That is fortunately set to change with the Linux 5.12 kernel this spring...

3 email rules to live by in 2021

opensource.com - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 16:02

In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 2 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021.

Like many of us, I have a love/hate relationship with email. Email was one of the earliest means of communication on the proto-internet, corporate LANs, and the dial-up BBS ecosystem. Email was, and still is, one of the primary means of electronic correspondence. It is used for business communications, commerce, notifications, collaboration, and a pile of useful things.


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