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AMD Smart Access Memory / Resizable BAR On Linux Still Ripe For Improvement

Phoronix - Sun, 12/13/2020 - 22:52
Following Mesa 21.0 beginning to see AMD Smart Access Memory optimizations, I ran some benchmarks looking at the current state of S.A.M. / Resizable BAR support on Linux with Radeon graphics...

Linux 5.11 Adding New Driver For Another Budget-Friendly, LCD Character Display

Phoronix - Sun, 12/13/2020 - 21:01
Adding to the Linux 5.11 changes and set of new drivers is "lcd2s" as a driver for supporting a 20x4 LCD character display connected via SPI/I2C and with this support can serve as a kernel console output device...

Mageia 8 Beta 2 Released With A Platter Of Updated Packages

Phoronix - Sun, 12/13/2020 - 19:41
Mageia 8 Beta 1 came all the way back in August while ahead of Christmas that has now been succeeded by a second beta release for this Mandriva/Mandrake-derived Linux distribution...

Zrythm Inches Closer To v1.0 As Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation

Phoronix - Sun, 12/13/2020 - 19:18
Earlier this year we covered Zrythm as an open-source digital audio workstation that is cross-platform, supports a wide variety of plug-ins, and built atop GTK3. Back then it was on the pre-1.0 version numbering while this weekend marks the release of 1.0 Alpha 6...

AMD SB-TSI Sensor Driver Set To Appear With Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Sun, 12/13/2020 - 16:00
There are a lot of changes coming with Linux 5.11 and on the AMD side includes the likes of VanGogh and Dimgrey Cavefish graphics support, AMD EPYC Zen 3 support in the AMD_Energy driver, AMD RAPL Zen1/Zen2/Zen3 PowerCap support, an AMD SoC PMC driver, and the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub driver for Ryzen laptops is finally being mainlined... Another new addition was queued up this weekend by way of hwmon-next and that's the AMD SB-TSI sensor driver...

What web developers love about the Brackets text editor

opensource.com - Sun, 12/13/2020 - 16:00

The Brackets text editor is an editor geared primarily at web developers. Appropriately, its Edit menu is full of functions especially useful to users of web programming languages, with a focus on the classic combination of HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

However, it supports many languages and formats relevant to the internet, including XML, Markdown, YAML and JSON, PHP, Lua, Java, and Python, as well as some common general languages like C, C++, and even the output of diff commands.


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Oracle Linux Looking To Attract CentOS Users Looking For Alternatives

Phoronix - Sun, 12/13/2020 - 07:00
In light of this week's major bombshell that CentOS 8 is being EOL'ed next year and CentOS focusing on "CentOS Stream" as the upstream to RHEL, Oracle is hoping at least some of those frustrated CentOS users will transition to Oracle Linux...

OpenBLAS 0.3.13 Released With A RISC-V Port, POWER10 Optimizations

Phoronix - Sun, 12/13/2020 - 02:06
OpenBLAS 0.3.13 was released today as the newest update to this leading open-source BLAS (and LAPACK) implementation...

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