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Mesa's Exciting Milestones So Far In 2021 From Zink To Great Intel/AMD Open-Source Work

Phoronix - Sun, 06/27/2021 - 21:37
With the half-way point for the year upon us, here is a look back at the most exciting Mesa open-source graphics driver news so far in 2021 with exciting contributions from Microsoft, AMD and Intel continuing to be the most open-source friendly graphics vendors, Zink making remarkable progress for OpenGL over Vulkan, performance optimizations galore, more embedded Vulkan drivers coming about, and other milestones for open-source Linux graphics...

Linux Developers Discuss A Global Counter For Block/Disk Changes

Phoronix - Sun, 06/27/2021 - 19:40
Microsoft and systemd developers are proposing a global counter for block device changes for the Linux kernel to better track changes and having a unique system-wide number for disk and other block device changes rather than on a per-disk basis...

Linux 5.14 HID Input Driver To Handle Programmable Buttons

Phoronix - Sun, 06/27/2021 - 18:35
The hid-input kernel driver with Linux 5.14 is set to see support for "Programmable Buttons" as outlined by the USB HID specification...

More Intel Xe-HP Enablement Code Lands In Mesa 21.2

Phoronix - Sun, 06/27/2021 - 18:08
Back in April was the last time we saw much XeHP specificc ode land in the open-source Mesa driver code while this week there was a fresh batch of code merged...

Try Chatwoot, an open source customer relationship platform

opensource.com - Sun, 06/27/2021 - 15:00

Chatwoot is an open source customer relationship platform built with Ruby and Vue.js. It was written from scratch to allow customer-relations teams to build end-to-end platforms for ticket management and support.

This article looks at Chatwoot's architecture, installation, and key features.

Chatwoot's architecture

Chatwoot requires the following components to function properly:


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Fedora 35 To Automatically Use Optimal Encryption Sector Size For Better I/O Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 06/27/2021 - 08:25
With this autumn's Fedora 35 release there should be better performance out-of-the-box for those employing LUKS/dm-crypt encryption while using 4K sector size based storage...

Linux 5.14 Set To See Many New Features, New GPU Support, Other Exciting Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 22:00
Linux 5.13 will debut tomorrow if Linus Torvalds is comfortable with the state of the code-base, which in turn will mark the opening of the Linux 5.14 merge window. Here is a look at what is on the table for this next follow-on version of the Linux kernel...

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