Open-source News

LLVM 11.0.1 Tagged As The Latest Stable Bits For This Open-Source Compiler

Phoronix - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 19:06
While LLVM 12.0 should be out around March as the next half-year feature update to this innovative and widely-used open-source compiler stack, LLVM 11.0.1 is now being christened as the only planned stable point release to LLVM 11...

My 3 favorite open source productivity apps

opensource.com - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 16:01

Productivity apps can really make your workflow much easier. In this article, I'll share a few of the open source applications I have used to streamline my workflow and increase my overall productivity. All of the productivity applications in this article are free Linux productivity applications.

Tomboy/Gnote

Tomboy is a simple note-taking application that can be used on Linux, Windows, and macOS. It's open source under the GNU LGPLv2.


read more

Learn C by writing a simple game

opensource.com - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 16:00

I taught myself about programming back in elementary school. My first programs were on the Apple II, but eventually, I learned C by reading books and practicing. And the best way to practice programming is to write sample programs that help exercise your new knowledge.


read more

HDMI Forum Closing Public Specification Access Is Hurting Open-Source GPU Drivers

Phoronix - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 15:57
It's been recently elaborated why the likes of FreeSync support over HDMI aren't coming to the open-source drivers, at least not yet... It stems from the decision by the HDMI Forum to prevent public access to the HDMI specification, which in turn is hurting open-source graphics drivers...

How to Install Apache Kafka in CentOS/RHEL 7

Tecmint - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 15:21

Apache Kafka is a powerful messaging engine, which is widely used in BigData projects and the Data Analytics life cycle. It is an Open-source platform to build real-time data streaming pipelines. It is a

The post How to Install Apache Kafka in CentOS/RHEL 7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Panfrost Gallium3D Flips On AFBC For Bifrost GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 13:08
Adding to the long list of changes for Mesa 21.0 is the Panfrost Gallium3D driver that provides open-source OpenGL for Arm Mali graphics hardware now supporting Arm Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC) for Bifrost GPUs...

Pages