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GCC 11's x86-64 Microarchitecture Feature Levels Are Ready To Roll

Phoronix - Tue, 11/03/2020 - 19:06
The Linux x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels have taken shape this year for different feature/performance levels based on a CPU's capabilities. Both LLVM Clang 12 and GCC 11 are ready to go in offering the new x86-64-v2, x86-64-v3, and x86-64-v4 targets...

AMD Linux Driver Seeing Support For New Fine Grain Clock Gating Ability

Phoronix - Tue, 11/03/2020 - 18:51
AMD mentioned Fine-Grain Clock Gating as one of the new features for the Radeon RX 6000 series with "Big Navi" but it will also be present with the next-gen Van Gogh APU too. The Linux driver patches for bringing up FGCG are under review...

Create a list in a Flutter mobile app

opensource.com - Tue, 11/03/2020 - 16:02

Flutter is a popular open source toolkit for building cross-platform apps. In "Create a mobile app with Flutter," I demonstrated how to install Flutter on Linux and create your first app. In this article, I'll show you how to add a list of items in your app, with each item opening a new screen. This is a common design method for mobile apps, so you've probably seen it before, but here's a screenshot to help you visualize it:


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4 ways to run Kubernetes locally

opensource.com - Tue, 11/03/2020 - 16:01

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration platform for containers. Developed by Google, it offers an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and managing containerized applications. Although most people run Kubernetes in a cloud environment, running a Kubernetes cluster locally is not only possible, it has at least two benefits:


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How the Kubernetes scheduler works

opensource.com - Tue, 11/03/2020 - 16:00

Kubernetes has emerged as the standard orchestration engine for containers and containerized workloads. It provides a common, open source abstraction layer that spans public and private cloud environments.


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How to Use Platform and Keyword Module in Python

Tecmint - Tue, 11/03/2020 - 14:48

The platform module provides an API to get information about the underlying system/platform where our code runs. Information such as OS name, Python Version, Architecture, Hardware information, etc. is exposed via platform module functions.

The post How to Use Platform and Keyword Module in Python first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Monado Open-Source OpenXR Implementation Begins Working On Android

Phoronix - Tue, 11/03/2020 - 13:04
Monado as the open-source OpenXR implementation has been working on support for Google's Android platform...

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