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Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Adds Sparse Memory Support - Will Help Some D3D12 Games

Phoronix - Mon, 01/11/2021 - 22:05
Adding to the growing list of Mesa 21.0 features is spare memory support for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver...

Blackberry Is Bringing Vulkan To QNX

Phoronix - Mon, 01/11/2021 - 20:41
The newest platform working on Vulkan API support is... Blackberry's QNX...

Mesa 21.0 RadeonSI Will Run Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Faster

Phoronix - Mon, 01/11/2021 - 19:14
Mesa 21.0 is bringing some overdue improvements for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver with the game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive...

Improve your productivity with this lightweight Linux desktop

opensource.com - Mon, 01/11/2021 - 16:02

In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 1 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021.


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7 Bash tutorials to enhance your command line skills in 2021

opensource.com - Mon, 01/11/2021 - 16:01

Bash is the default command line shell on most Linux systems. So why not learn how to get the most out of it? This year, Opensource.com featured many great articles to help you leverage the power of the Bash shell. These are some of the most-read articles about Bash:


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Deploy Ceph in a Raspberry Pi cluster

opensource.com - Mon, 01/11/2021 - 16:00

Ceph is an open source software storage platform that provides object, block, and filesystem storage in a unified storage cluster. I first used Ceph when I integrated it with OpenStack. At first, I was confused about why I should use Ceph since storage devices are widely available.


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