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Qt 6.0 RC1 Takes Flight - Qt 6.0 Should Be Here By Mid-December

Phoronix - Wed, 11/25/2020 - 20:10
The Qt Company has just announced Qt 6.0 Release Candidate 1 as what should be the second to the last test build ahead of the big Qt 6.0 toolkit release next month...

Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Wayland

Phoronix - Wed, 11/25/2020 - 19:49
Just yesterday Raspberry Pi fans were celebrating that the V3DV driver is now officially Vulkan 1.0 conformant for supporting this modern high performance graphics/compute API atop the Raspberry Pi 4 and newer. Today another milestone was reached with V3DV...

Intel Begins Landing Their Open-Source Vulkan Driver Ray-Tracing Support

Phoronix - Wed, 11/25/2020 - 19:16
This week marked the release of Vulkan 1.2.162 with the ray-tracing extensions now finalized. As such Intel's stellar open-source team has begun landing their work around Vulkan ray-tracing ahead of the Xe HPG hardware availability that will support this functionality...

Keep track of multiple Git remote repositories

opensource.com - Wed, 11/25/2020 - 16:02

Working with remote repositories gets confusing when the names of the remote repositories in your local Git repo are inconsistent.


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Get started with Fossil, an alternative to Git

opensource.com - Wed, 11/25/2020 - 16:01

As any programmer knows, there are many reasons it's vital to keep track of code changes. Sometimes you just want a history of how your project started and evolved, as a matter of curiosity or education. Other times, you want to enable other coders to contribute to your project, and you need a reliable way to merge disparate parts. And more critically, sometimes an adjustment you make to fix one problem breaks something else that was working.


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Got something to say? How to get started writing

opensource.com - Wed, 11/25/2020 - 16:00

Well, I suppose after all this talk of how to find your story and then write your story, I should make a post about how to do just that. I've broken it down into three sections: how to find your story, how to write your story, and how to share it and get it published.

During the All Things Open virtual event this year, I was invited to share my tips, and now you can watch that. It's about 20 minutes with some questions and commentary at the end.


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Sysmon – A Graphical System Activity Monitor for Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 11/25/2020 - 13:56

Sysmon is a Linux activity monitoring tool similar to Windows task manager, was written in Python and released under GPL-3.0 License. This is a Graphical visualization tool that visualizes the following data. By default

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Radeon RX 6800 Series 1440p Linux Gaming Benchmarks With 15 GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 11/25/2020 - 13:00
While the new Radeon RX 6800 series is suited for 4K gaming, a number of premium readers inquired about seeing 1440p gaming benchmarks for the cards. Now that all the initial launch coverage is out of the way, here is a look at the Radeon RX 6800 / RX 6800 XT with 15 graphics cards in total for this round of Linux gaming benchmarks focused at 1440p...

GTK Planning More Improvements In 2021 From Better Accessibility To Animation Framework

Phoronix - Wed, 11/25/2020 - 04:56
In addition to shipping the much anticipated GTK 4.0, this toolkit driven by the GNOME desktop environment is making more plans for an exciting 2021...

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