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Qt 6 To Ship With Package Manager For Extra Libraries

Phoronix - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 21:00
Adding to the list of changes coming with the Qt 6 toolkit, The Qt Company has now outlined their initial implementation of a package manager to provide additional Qt6 modules...

Sony Engineer Talks Up Using Flutter + Wayland For Their Embedded Interfaces

Phoronix - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 19:00
A Sony engineer confirmed at this week's Embedded Linux Conference Europe that the company has begun using the Flutter toolkit atop Wayland as their means of developing user-interfaces on embedded systems...

Mesa 20.3 Supports Intel Alder Lake Gen12 Graphics

Phoronix - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 18:32
Last week Intel open-source engineers began publishing Linux kernel patches for the "Alder Lake S" graphics support. That work should be found in the Linux 5.11 cycle being christened as stable in early 2021. In user-space, Alder Lake graphics patches also appeared for their OpenCL / oneAPI Level Zero compute stack and now merged into Mesa 20.3 as well for OpenGL / Vulkan support...

The Linux Kernel Looks To Eventually Drop Support For WiMAX

Phoronix - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 16:05
With the WiMAX 802.16 standard not being widely used outside of the Aeronautical Mobile Airport Communication System (AeroMACS) and usage in some developing nations, the Linux kernel may end up dropping its support for WiMAX but first there is a proposal to demote it to staging while seeing if any users remain...

How to Monitor Ubuntu Performance Using Netdata

Tecmint - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 15:14

Netdata is a free and opensource real-time monitoring and troubleshooting tool for cloud servers, containers, applications, and on-premise IT infrastructure. It provides high granular and real-time system metrics such as CPU performance, RAM &

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How JavaScript became a serious programming language

opensource.com - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 15:02

JavaScript's humble start began in 1995, when it was created in just 10 days by Brendan Eich, then an employee with Netscape Communications Corporation. JavaScript has come a long way since then, from a tool to make websites pretty to a serious programming language.


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Program in Arm6 assembly language on a Raspberry Pi

opensource.com - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 15:01

The Arm website touts the processor's underlying architecture as "the keystone of the world's largest compute ecosystem," which is plausible given the number of handheld and embedded devices with Arm processors. Arm processors are prevalent in the Internet of Things (IoT), but they are also used in desktop machines, servers, and even high-performance computers, such as the Fugaku HPC. But why look at Arm machines through the lens of assembly language?


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