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POCL 1.6 Released For Portable OpenCL Atop CPUs, Other Accelerators

Phoronix - Thu, 12/17/2020 - 21:14
A new feature release of POCL is now available that is the "Portable Computing Language" offering OpenCL execution atop CPUs and other devices like NVIDIA CUDA that have an LLVM back-end...

Intel Alder Lake Sound, Other New Audio Hardware Support In Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Thu, 12/17/2020 - 20:16
The latest hardware enablement around Intel's Alder Lake for the Linux kernel is audio support...

Linux 5.11 Supports The OUYA Game Console, Other New ARM Hardware Support

Phoronix - Thu, 12/17/2020 - 19:33
The ARM64 architecture updates were sent in already for Linux 5.11 along with the various ARM SoC additions, DeviceTree additions for new hardware support, and similar changes. There is a lot of new hardware support as always being brought up by the mainline kernel...

How to hack Android Auto to display custom content

opensource.com - Thu, 12/17/2020 - 16:01

Google's Android Auto application casts content from a smartphone to a car's head unit display. Officially, that content includes navigation (e.g., Google Maps and Waze), media players (e.g., VLC, Spotify), and messaging apps. The application is useful, but it would be even better if you could show a film on your head unit's display or use it as an interface to a custom onboard computer that manages multiple cameras, GPS, and so on.


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Explore the exciting features of the Howl text editor

opensource.com - Thu, 12/17/2020 - 16:00

Howl is a general-purpose text editor written in Moonscript and Lua. It’s not focused on a specific programming language, and instead features support for many different languages and formats. In fact, it takes inspiration from "traditional" Unix editors like Emacs and Vim, so it feels familiar to anyone accustomed to that style of editing.


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Wayland 1.19 Is Set To Come Soon As First Update In Nearly One Year

Phoronix - Thu, 12/17/2020 - 15:55
Wayland 1.18 came back in February while until now there wasn't much talk about a "Wayland 1.19" since at this stage the core functionality of Wayland is quite mature and stable. But now work is underway on Wayland 1.19 with aims to likely ship it in January...

How To Create a New User and Grant Permissions in MySQL

Tecmint - Thu, 12/17/2020 - 13:07

MySQL is a popular and widely used database management system that stores and organizes data and allows users to retrieve it. It comes with a vast array of options that grant users certain permissions

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