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Fedora 33 Beta Released With Big Changes From LTO To Btrfs

Phoronix - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 21:40
The beta of Fedora 33 is available this morning ahead of the official release expected at the end of October for this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution...

Intel's oneAPI Is Coming To AMD Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 21:00
While yesterday brought the release of Intel's oneAPI 1.0 specification, the interesting news today is that oneAPI support is coming to AMD Radeon graphics cards...

NetBSD Has Some Wayland Support But X11 Is Far More Mature

Phoronix - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 19:46
Following the news yesterday of NetBSD changing its default X11 window manager after two decades with TWM to now using CTWM by default, some wondered why they don't jump on the Wayland bandwagon...

MoltenVK 1.1 Update Brings Big Improvements For Vulkan On macOS

Phoronix - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 18:41
MoltenVK 1.1 is out as a big update for this graphics translation layer for getting the Vulkan API running on macOS and iOS devices by translating calls to Apple's Metal API...

Mesa 20.2 Released With RADV ACO By Default, Initial RDNA2 Graphics Support

Phoronix - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 18:25
Mesa 20.2 has managed to release just before the end of the the quarter. This Mesa Q3'2020 graphics driver update is coming out about one month behind schedule but the wait is worthwhile given many open-source OpenGL and Vulkan driver updates...

Mir 2.1 Released With Some New Protocol Support, Many Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 15:02
Mir 2.1 has been released as Canonical's project around offering a set of libraries for constructing Wayland shells particularly with Snap confinement support and other Ubuntu-focused features...

This Python script mimics Babbage's Difference Engine

opensource.com - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 15:02

In Use this Python script to simulate Babbage's Difference Engine, Python offered an alternative solution to Babbage's problem of determining the number of marbles in a two-dimensional pyramid. Babbage's Difference Engine solved this using a table showing the number of marble rows and the total number of marbles.


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Customize an Intel NUC with Linux

opensource.com - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 15:01

After nearly six months of frequent video conferencing, I was tired of looking at my colleagues as tiny thumbnails on 13" and 15" laptop displays. However, I didn't want the clutter of a desktop or tower case and all the associated cabling.


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13 Best Photo Image Editors for Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 15:00

In this article, I have reviewed of some the best photo editing software available on different Linux distributions. These are not the only photo editors available but are among the best and commonly used

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