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How to Split Vim Screen Horizontally and Vertically in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 02/09/2021 - 13:23

Vim text editor, short for Vi IMproved, is one of the most powerful and popular Linux text editors that enjoys immense patronage from the open-source community. It is an improvement of the vi editor

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NVIDIA Posts Patches For SVM Atomics Support With Open-Source Nouveau

Phoronix - Tue, 02/09/2021 - 13:00
There are a new round of kernel patches posted today by NVIDIA for the open-source, traditionally reverse-engineered "Nouveau" graphics driver: implementing support for SVM atomic memory operations...

The FUTEX2 System Call Continues Working Its Way Towards Mainline In 2021

Phoronix - Tue, 02/09/2021 - 09:27
The work-in-progress FUTEX2 system call for improving Windows games on Linux via Wine / Steam Play remains one of the items left to be addressed in 2021 with the work on that being funded by Valve and tackled by Collabora engineers...

KWinFT 5.21 Beta Pushes a "Monumental Rewrite" Of The Windowing Logic

Phoronix - Tue, 02/09/2021 - 05:35
KDE developer Roman Gilg continues pushing ahead with KWinFT as a fork of the KWin window manager / compositor and other select components. He spent a lot of time last year better optimizing the X11 and Wayland handling while he's been relentlessly working this year to push it even further...

Building The Linux Kernel With Clang Continues To Be Useful, New Features Pursued

Phoronix - Tue, 02/09/2021 - 03:12
At last month's Linux.Conf.Au virtual conference was a presentation by Google engineer Nick Desaulniers on the current state of building the Linux kernel with LLVM Clang as an alternative to GCC...

Rust Foundation Established To Steward The Rust Programming Language

Phoronix - Tue, 02/09/2021 - 01:56
Mozilla has been sponsoring the Rust programming language for more than a decade while in 2020 as part of Mozilla's big round of layoffs most of the Rust team was let go along with dropping the Servo web engine team. Following that plans were drafted to create the Rust Foundation as an independent entity...

AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs. NVIDIA RTX 30 Linux Performance Heating Up

Phoronix - Mon, 02/08/2021 - 23:30
Given the open-source Radeon driver progress for RDNA2 over the past three months since the Radeon RX 6800 series were launched, here is a look at how the Radeon RX 6800 series and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series is currently competing on Linux when using the latest Linux drivers from the respective vendors.

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