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Intel Begins Adding Alder Lake Graphics Support To Their Linux Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 22:09
Intel has begun adding support for Alderlake-S to their open-source Linux kernel graphics driver...

Facebook Is Looking To Upstream Their BOLT Binary Performance Optimizer Into LLVM

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 19:00
Facebook's BOLT is a multi-year project focused on speeding up the performance of binaries. This open-source project initially focused on being able to better optimize Linux x86_64/ARM64 ELF binaries as a post-link optimizer. BOLT has been seeing much success with even Google using it now for better performance and now there is work to upstream it as part of the LLVM project...

TrueNAS 12 Released As The Marriage Of FreeNAS + TrueNAS

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 18:37
OpenBSD 6.8, NetBSD 9.1, and now TrueNAS 12.0 is out... It seems to be BSD release week!..

Nouveau + LLVMpipe Drivers Enable OpenCL Image Support

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 16:00
The interesting work continues pouring in for Mesa 20.3 as the Q4'2020 feature release to this open-source graphics stack... The latest excitement is on the "Clover" front for Gallium3D OpenCL...

5 open source tools I can't live without

opensource.com - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 15:00

Some time ago, I engaged with a Twitter thread that went viral among techies. The challenge? Pick only five tools that you cannot live without. I started to think about this in relation to my everyday life, and picking just five tools was not easy.


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How anyone can contribute to open source software in their job

opensource.com - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 15:00

Imagine a world where your software works perfectly for you. It meets your needs, does things your way, and is the ideal tool to achieve great things toward your goals.

Open source software stems from these roots. Many projects are built by engineers that have a problem and build a solution to solve it. Then they openly share their solution with others to use and improve.


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Intel OpenGL/Vulkan Linux Drivers Strike Another Optimization For Tiger Lake

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 13:45
It was just on Monday that Intel's talented open-source developers merged a hefty Tiger Lake graphics optimization into the Mesa 20.3 code that for some games/software can be around ~11% faster thanks to greater caching. Just a day later another optimization has arrived for helping these latest-generation Intel graphics...

How to Setup and Manage Log Rotation Using Logrotate in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 13:15

One of the most interesting (and perhaps one of the most important as well) directories in a Linux system is /var/log. According to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, the activity of most services running in

The post How to Setup and Manage Log Rotation Using Logrotate in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

NVIDIA Ships Vulkan Driver Beta With Fragment Shading Rate Control

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 12:07
This week's Vulkan 1.2.158 spec release brought the fragment shading rate extension to control the rate at which fragments are shaded on a per-draw, per-primitive, or per-region basis. This can be useful similar to OpenGL and Direct3D support for helping to allow different, less important areas of the screen be shaded less than areas requiring greater detail/focus...

How Red Hat celebrated Hispanic Heritage month

Red Hat News - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 12:00

We’ve always maintained that a diverse and inclusive organization thrives when people from different backgrounds feel comfortable being their full self when they’re at work. This includes sharing and celebrating holidays and traditions with colleagues that are important to their culture or heritage. At Red Hat, Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) communities are a rich source for associates to have new experiences and learn from others with different backgrounds.

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