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4A Games Still Working On Linux Port Of Metro Exodus

Phoronix - Wed, 11/25/2020 - 23:51
While Metro Exodus can run on Linux right now via Steam Play, 4A Games is still working on a port of this popular game to Linux and Mac systems...

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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