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AMDVLK 2020.Q4.5 Vulkan Driver Brings Radeon RX 6000 Series Support

Phoronix - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 20:00
While it was just two days ago that AMDVLK 2020.Q4.4 was released, AMD has made good on their word to provide punctual AMDVLK open-source Vulkan driver support for their new RDNA 2 "Big Navi" graphics cards and that has resulted in a new AMDVLK release...

Mir 2.2 Released With Display Wall Capabilities, Composite Bypass On GBM-KMS

Phoronix - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 19:28
Mir 2.2 is out this morning as the newest update to this Wayland compositor and display server...

IBM, Red Hat, VMware & Others Form The Inclusive Naming Initiative

Phoronix - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 19:07
The Inclusive Naming Initiative has been formed by various industry players to make "consistent, responsible choices to remove harmful language" from software...

Automate your tasks with this Ansible cheat sheet

opensource.com - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 16:01

Ansible is one of the primary tools in the world of automation and orchestration because of its broad usefulness and flexibility. However, those same traits are the very reason it can be difficult to get started with Ansible. It isn't a graphical application, and yet it also isn't a scripting or programming language.


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The relationship between labor and open source

opensource.com - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 16:00

The open source software ecosystem is a fascinating blend of personal passion projects and massive, collaborative corporate efforts. Sometimes there is even overlap when the passion projects are actually key components of the huge corporate projects or when a corporate project is abandoned by the original maintainers, but someone takes up the cause and makes it their personal passion project. Regardless of where an open source project falls on that spectrum, there is a lot of labor involved in the development and maintenance of open source projects.


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Xilinx Publishes An Open-Source AI Engine Kernel Driver For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 13:05
In addition to AMD and Xilinx bringing ROCm to FPGAs, another interesting open-source/Linux milestone for the company being acquired by AMD is their publishing of the AI Engine open-source kernel driver with ambitions for upstreaming it...

A Basic Guide to Linux Boot Process

Tecmint - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 13:00

Every time you power on your Linux PC, it goes through a series of stages before finally displaying a login screen that prompts for your username or password. There are 4 distinct stages that

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Google Publishes Latest Linux Core Scheduling Patches So Only Trusted Tasks Share A Core

Phoronix - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 07:46
Google engineer Joel Fernandes sent out the ninth version of their "core scheduling" patches for the Linux kernel that allows for allowing only trusted tasks to run concurrently on the same CPU core -- in cases where Hyper Threading is involved to safeguard the system against the possible security exploits...

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