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LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.0

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2020 - 19:16
The LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver that provides a software/CPU-based OpenGL implementation for running on systems as a fallback path when no GPU / hardware OpenGL driver is available, a vendor-neutral path for debug purposes, and similar use-cases, now has OpenGL 4.0 support...

Intel's IGC 1.0.4241 Graphics Compiler Adds DG1 Platform Support

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2020 - 19:08
IGC 1.0.4241 is out this morning as the latest version of Intel's open-source graphics compiler that is used by their compute stack for oneAPI and OpenCL...

Steam On Linux Is Still Bouncing Around 0.9% For Summer 2020

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2020 - 18:35
With the start of a new month comes the latest numbers out of Valve for the rough Linux gaming market percentage from the Steam Survey...

NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 10 Brings Few Changes For This Proprietary Library

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2020 - 16:32
NVIDIA has quietly released Video Codec SDK 10 as the newest version of their proprietary video encode/decode implementation designed for their GPUs...

Customizing my Linux terminal with tmux and Git

opensource.com - Thu, 07/02/2020 - 15:02

I use GNOME Terminal, mostly because it is my distribution's default. But what happens inside my terminal is far from "default." Before I get into how I customize it, here is what it looks like:


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6 best practices for managing Git repos

opensource.com - Thu, 07/02/2020 - 15:01

Having access to source code makes it possible to analyze the security and safety of applications. But if nobody actually looks at the code, the issues won’t get caught, and even when people are actively looking at code, there’s usually quite a lot to look at. Fortunately, GitHub has an active security team, and recently, they revealed a Trojan that had been committed into several Git repositories, having snuck past even the repo owners.


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How an open project's governance model evolves

opensource.com - Thu, 07/02/2020 - 15:00

As we continue renovating the Open Organization community, we've been asking hard questions about how we want that community to function. What do we expect of one another, and of the new contributors yet to join us? How will we work best together? And how will we keep one another accountable for achieving our shared goals?


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How to Install Apache Web Server on Ubuntu 20.04

Tecmint - Thu, 07/02/2020 - 13:38
This guide will take you through the installation of the Apache webserver on Ubuntu 20.04. It includes managing the Apache2 services, open webserver port in the firewall, testing the Apache2 installation, and configuring a...

Wayland's Weston 9.0 Aims For Release In Early September

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2020 - 12:04
With Weston 8.0 having shipped in January, Wayland developers are beginning to prepare for the next feature release of this reference Wayland compositor...

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