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Facebook Still Pursuing "NetGPU" - Working On AMD GPU Support In Addition To NVIDIA

Phoronix - Sun, 08/30/2020 - 01:53
It was the recent Facebook patches for implementing NetGPU that with one of the NVIDIA-focused patches led to the recent controversy around "GPL condoms" in the kernel and ultimately leading to new protections with Linux 5.9. That NetGPU code is still being worked on by Facebook with upstream hopes but now in addition to the NVIDIA driver support they are also working on AMD GPU support with the open-source driver...

Google Is Still Striving To Upstream Incremental FS In Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 08/29/2020 - 22:40
After originally publishing the Incremental FS patches back in May of 2019, Google's Android kernel team is still working to upstream this virtual file-system into the mainline Linux kernel and at this week's Linux Plumbers Conference was working to drum up support for it...

Android AOSP Can Boot Off Mainline Linux 5.9 With Just One Patch

Phoronix - Sat, 08/29/2020 - 22:02
The Android open-source project "AOSP" with its latest code is very close to being able to boot off the mainline Linux kernel when assuming the device drivers are all upstream...

KDE Plasma 5.20 Will Alert You If Your Disk Is Failing

Phoronix - Sat, 08/29/2020 - 21:01
KDE's Plasma 5.20 desktop picked up a number of new features this week...

How to Install Wine 5.0 on Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Tecmint - Sat, 08/29/2020 - 17:25

Wine is an open-source, free and easy-to-use program that enables Linux users to run some Windows-based applications on Unix-like operating systems. Wine is a compatibility layer for installing almost all versions of Windows programs.

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Paragon Submits Third Version Of New NTFS Kernel Driver For Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 08/29/2020 - 15:47
Two weeks ago file-system driver vendor Paragon Software posted patches for their previously commercial NTFS Linux driver with hopes of getting the code mainlined. That initial patch drew some criticism for how it was handled but a week later a new version was published that split up the patches nicely and had other feedback. Prior to calling it a weekend, Paragon sent out a third version of the "NTFS3" Linux kernel driver patches...

5 open source activities for kids to try this weekend

opensource.com - Sat, 08/29/2020 - 15:00

During the last six months or so, my family and I have enjoyed a slower pace of life. With few museums and parks open, we’ve stayed safer at home together or going on outdoor excursions. My young children are pretty good at creating their imaginary worlds where they could play for hours. I think they are adapting to this new normal better than I am to tell you the truth. However, there will be weekends when we have all run out of ideas. Luckily, Opensource.com is chock full of boredom-busters for kids of all ages.


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How to Install Wine 5.0 on CentOS, RHEL and Fedora

Tecmint - Sat, 08/29/2020 - 13:56

Wine is an open-source and free application for Linux that enables users to run any windows based application on Unix/Linux like operating system. Wine team keeps releasing their versions in every two weeks. Finally,

The post How to Install Wine 5.0 on CentOS, RHEL and Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

NVIDIA's DALI 0.25 Deep Learning Library Adds AArch64 SBSA, Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 08/29/2020 - 12:07
DALI is the project at NVIDIA focused on GPU-accelerated data augmentation and image loading along with other tasks while being optimized for deep learning workflows. DALI 0.25 was released on Friday as the latest step forward for this open-source NVIDIA project...

LunarG Introduces New Vulkan Configurator (vkconfig)

Phoronix - Sat, 08/29/2020 - 08:30
The friends at LunarG who maintain the Vulkan SDK today announced their new Vulkan Configurator tool, accessible via the vkconfig command and installed as part of the SDK...

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