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Mesa's open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has landed support for Next-Gen Geometry (NGG) culling support as ultimately what should provide another performance win for some workloads...

Programming the Windows kernel with eBPF  Floridanewstimes.com

Now that the DG1 graphics support is beginning to get squared away and with Linux 5.15 will likely be able to boot to an accelerated desktop, bring-up on the DG2 graphics card has begun along with the Xe_HP software development vehicle...

Programming the Windows kernel with eBPF  InfoWorld

The "Linux Random Number Generator" (LRNG) effort as a new drop-in replacement for /dev/random is now up to its 41st revision and in development for more than five years...

More Than Five Years In The Making: Creating A New Linux Random Number Generator  Phoronix

For going along with the newly added support in the MSM DRM kernel driver, Mesa's Freedreno Gallium3D OpenGL and Turnip Vulkan drivers have landed support for the Adreno 660 and Adreno 635 graphics processors...

How to use Kit Language on Windows and Linux OS 2021 Tips  BollyInside

Linux Mint to now ensure you update your distro on time  HT Tech

The post Elementary OS – A Linux Distro for Windows and macOS Users first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Elementary OS is a Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution, which started as a theme and application set for Ubuntu which later turns out to be an independent Linux distribution. It inherits the legacy of Ubuntu OS

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Linux inherited a lot from Unix, which has been around for a half-century. This means most of the tools you use in your Linux terminal probably either have a very long history or were written to emulate those historical commands. It's a point of pride in the POSIX world that tools don't need constant reinvention. In fact, there's a subset of Linux users today who could run a version of Linux from before they were born without having to learn anything new. It's tried, true, and reliable.

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What the Linux Mint developers have pulled off is nothing short of astounding  TechRepublic

What the Linux Mint developers have pulled off is nothing short of astounding  TechRepublic

In his article How different programming languages do the same thing, Jim Hall demonstrates how 13 different languages accomplish the same exact task with different syntax. The lesson is that programming languages tend to have many similarities, and once you know one programming language, you can learn another by figuring its syntax and structure.

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The post How to Install Akaunting Accounting Software on Ubuntu 20.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Written in PHP, Akaunting is a feature-rich and open-source online accounting software that allows users to manage finances and keep track of all the invoices, payments, and expenses, to mention just but a few

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Intel Still Hasn't Gotten To Landing Per-Client Engine Busyness Reporting For Linux  Phoronix

One of the patch series I have been looking forward to see land going back to 2018 has been the per-process GPU load statistics or as it's known officially the "per client engine busyness" series. The work didn't land for Linux 5.14 but at least this week the latest revision was posted...

Microsoft has released its Linux distro under the codename CBL-Mariner where CBL stands for Common Base Linux  Awani Review

How to choose the best server OS for your website  Illinoisnewstoday.com

Valve today pushed out their newest stable update to the Steam client for Windows, macOS, and Linux...