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OpenZFS 2.0-RC7 Brings Better ABI Handling, Reduced Latency For Non-Interactive I/O

Phoronix - Thu, 11/26/2020 - 19:52
OpenZFS 2.0 is getting quite close to release but isn't over the finish line yet and this week brings the seventh release candidate...

AMD Stages More Driver Updates For New GPUs With Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Thu, 11/26/2020 - 18:00
While the Radeon RX 6800 series is now shipping that was developed under the Sienna Cichlid codename, there are other fishy codenames remaining and are seeing more work for the Linux 5.11 kernel that will officially open development in December and then likely reaching stable in February...

Arcan 0.6 Display Server Adds Network Transparency, XWayland Client Isolation

Phoronix - Thu, 11/26/2020 - 16:18
For those with some extra time around the US Thanksgiving holiday, the Arcan display server/environment is out with a new release. This is the interesting project that's powered in part by a game engine, offers X11 and Wayland compatibility, ported to BSDs, and more recently has been exploring VR and other desktop innovations...

5 open source alternatives to GitHub

opensource.com - Thu, 11/26/2020 - 16:01

Git is a popular version-control system, primarily used for code but popular in other disciplines, too. It can run locally on your computer for personal use, it can run on a server for collaboration, and it can also run as a hosted service for widespread public participation. There are many hosted services out there, and one of the most popular brands is GitHub.


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Access free, high-quality images from HDRI Haven

opensource.com - Thu, 11/26/2020 - 16:00

The latest episode of The Open Source Creative Podcast is good for anyone interested in using HDRIs in their work (typically 3D art and VFX), but may also be of interest to folks with an interest in photography and the process of creating their own high dynamic range images. In this episode, Greg Zaal shares about HDRI Haven, a place where you can get free, high-quality 360-degree HDR images under a CC0 license.


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Godot Game Engine Has Been Backing "Betsy" As A GPU-Based Texture Compressor

Phoronix - Thu, 11/26/2020 - 13:05
The Godot Game Engine has been funding work on a GPU-based texture compressor to deal with the issue that importing textures to this leading open-source game engine can often be painfully slow...

How to Install and Use Thonny Python IDE on Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 11/26/2020 - 12:05

Thonny is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Python beginners. It is created with Python and released under MIT License. It is cross-platform and can run in Linux, macOS, Windows. Related Article: 10 Best

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Blender 2.91 Released With A Multitude Of Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 11/26/2020 - 06:09
Blender has been gaining a lot of ground this year with numerous prominent organizations now backing its development (just most recently, Facebook) and just at the end of summer they delivered Blender 2.90 while out today is Blender 2.91...

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