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Mesa's Vulkan Software Implementation Now Known as Lavapipe

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 19:30
Mesa's Vulkan software implementation built atop LLVMpipe was developed as Vallium (Vulkan + Gallium3D) but has been renamed to Lavapipe within Mesa 20.3...

Systemd Startup For KDE Plasma 5.21 Has Helped Uncover Bugs, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 18:38
While Plasma 5.20 isn't shipping until later this month, already for Plasma 5.21 down the pipe is a big change and that is the optional support for systemd starting up of the Plasma session. This can lead to faster startup/load times and other improvements while even the process of bringing up the systemd support helped uncover other KDE bugs...

Linux 5.9 Regression, NVIDIA RTX 30, GNOME 40 & Microsoft Made For A Fun September

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 18:22
From new hardware releases to figuring out that Linux 5.9 performance regression to interesting open-source software advancements, September was an interesting trek with 259 original articles on the site and another 15 featured articles / multi-page Linux hardware reviews...

Intel Releases OpenCL Intercept Layer 3.0

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 18:01
Following yesterday's release of the finalized OpenCL 3.0 specification, open-source Intel developers have released OpenCL Intercept Layer 3.0...

How I Switched from Windows 10 to Linux Mint

Tecmint - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 15:04

This article is all about my journey on switching from Windows 10 to Linux Mint 20, how I got easily adapted to the Linux environment, and some resources that helped me to set up

The post How I Switched from Windows 10 to Linux Mint first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Level up your shell history with Loki and fzf

opensource.com - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 15:01

Loki is an Apache 2.0-licensed open source log-aggregation framework designed by Grafana Labs and built with tremendous support from a growing community. It is also the project I work on every day. In this article, rather than just talking about how Loki works, I will provide a hands-on introduction to solving real problems with it.


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