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AMD S2idle Support For Linux Getting Squared Away

Phoronix - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 19:51
Just in time for the upcoming AMD Ryzen 5000 series mobile processors, it's looking like the S2idle support is finally coming together on Linux for increased power savings...

How to use the Eclipse IDE as your text editor

opensource.com - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 16:02

Eclipse is an IDE (integrated development environment). It’s definitely not a text editor. Then again, an IDE is really just a text editor with a lot of extra features for specific kinds of text. Furthermore, an IDE is often home to a developer. Developers have their IDE of choice open all day long, so it’s natural to stay in that IDE when it’s time to write a project README file, or to jot down a quick note, or to just make a grocery list. So sometimes, an IDE is just a text editor, after all.


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10 Raspberry Pi project ideas from 2020

opensource.com - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 16:02

The Raspberry Pi is the small, low-cost, single-board PC that took the world by storm when it was released in 2012. Since then, educators, students, makers, and tinkerers have used the various Raspberry Pi models for many, many unique and interesting projects. The possibilities are nearly endless.

Over the course of 2020, Opensource.com published many great articles about Raspberry Pi projects; below, I explore the top 10. I hope these articles educate, entertain, and inspire you.


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9 stories about switching to an open source alternative in 2020

opensource.com - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 16:01

In 2020, as every year, new open source projects launched as alternatives to proprietary solutions. Here is a roundup of the top nine articles about open source alternatives that made the headlines in 2020 on Opensource.com.


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Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Lands Tessellation Shader Support In Mesa 21.0

Phoronix - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 16:00
Landing in Mesa 21.0 on Tuesday was support for OpenGL tessellation shaders (ARB_tessellation_shader) with the Zink Gallium3D code implementing generic OpenGL support atop Vulkan...

LibTraceFS 1.0 Released For Interacting With Linux's Tracing File-System

Phoronix - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 13:41
Merged into the Linux kernel back in 2015 was the TraceFS file-system to better address Linux tracing use-cases that previously were handled atop DebugFS. Now LibTraceFS has reached version 1.0 as the user-space library around TraceFS after being spun out of Trace-CMD earlier this year...

Xfce 4.16 Released With Numerous Improvements To This Lightweight GTK3 Desktop

Phoronix - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 09:38
Xfce 4.16 managed to ship in 2020 as one of the original goals for this release after the much delayed Xfce 4.14 series. Xfce 4.16 comes with many incremental improvements to this GTK3 desktop environment...

Microsoft Adds SPIR-V To DXIL Library In Mesa - With A Focus On WebGPU Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 07:22
Microsoft continues pushing new code into Mesa 21.0 as its efforts around Mesa continue to ramp up principally around GPU acceleration within Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as well as allowing the likes of OpenGL and OpenCL to function under Windows 10 in the absence of native GL/CL drivers by using Mesa to translate the APIs for consumption by Direct3D 12 drivers...

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