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NVIDIA Engineer Sends Out Patches For Supporting Sync FDs + Sync Objects With Nouveau

Phoronix - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 21:17
Longtime NVIDIA engineer Thierry Reding who has been involved with the open-source Nouveau driver efforts largely from an embedded/mobile Tegra angle last week sent out the newest patch series...

Updated NVIDIA CUDA For WSL Brings Better Performance, PTX JIT

Phoronix - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 19:39
Earlier this summer building off the latest Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 advancements by Microsoft, NVIDIA released early support for CUDA / GPU compute on WSL2. This week NVIDIA offered up a new version of their CUDA WSL support...

Raspberry Pi 4 / BCM2711 Display Pipeline Still Being Worked On For VC4 DRM Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 19:06
Going back a number of months have been patches for bringing up the Broadcom BCM2711 display pipeline as found with the Raspberry Pi 4 SBC. That work still hasn't been mainlined but a fifth round of patches has now been sent out for review...

KDAB Releases Hotspot 1.3 For Visualizing Linux Perf Reports

Phoronix - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 18:42
Open-source consulting firm KDAB has released Hotspot 1.3 as their GUI utility for visualizing Linux perf reports...

FrostWire – A Cloud Downloader, BitTorrent Client and Media Player

Tecmint - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 17:15

FrostWire (formerly known as Gnutella) is a free and open-source BitTorrent client and a fork of LimeWire. It was originally very similar to LimeWire in appearance and performance, but later developers added more rich

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A practical guide to learning awk

opensource.com - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 15:02

Of all the Linux commands out there (and there are many), the three most quintessential seem to be sed, awk, and grep. Maybe it's the arcane sound of their names, or the breadth of their potential use, or just their age, but when someone's giving an example of a "Linuxy" command, it's usually one of those three.


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Why your open source project needs more than just coders

opensource.com - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 15:00

Why do open source projects fail?

Lack of funding is a major factor, of course, but it's far from the only reason that open source projects fail to achieve sustainability. Sometimes there's a lack of understanding of how to create a product for a broad market, or some fundamental misstep with intellectual property rights (IPR)—such as failing to properly license your code.


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How to Fix “Shared connection to x.x.xx closed” Ansible Error

Tecmint - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 14:01

In this short article, we will explain how to solve the: “module_stderr“: “Shared connection to x.x.x.x closed.\r\n”, “module_stdout”: “/bin/sh: /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory\r\n”, while running Ansible commands. The following screenshot shows the

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GCC Automatic Parallel Compilation Viability Results Help Up To 3.3x

Phoronix - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 12:02
One of the most interesting projects out of Google Summer of Code 2020 has been the ongoing work for allowing individual code files to be compiled in parallel, building off work last year in addressing GCC parallelization bottlenecks. The final report for GSoC 2020 on this work has been issued...

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