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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,

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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...

Wine 5.16 Released With Support For AVX Registers

Phoronix - Sat, 08/29/2020 - 04:34
Wine 5.16 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release leading up to next year's Wine 6.0...

Google Engineer Calls For Greater Collaboration On Speculative Execution Mitigations

Phoronix - Sat, 08/29/2020 - 01:00
When it comes to kernel address space isolation (ASI) and other yet-to-be-merged security features around fending off speculative execution attacks, there are multiple concurrent efforts by many of the public cloud providers and other hyperscalers. A Google engineer at this week's Linux Plumbers Conference has called for more collaboration in this area to ideally provide a unified solution...

AMD AOCC 2.2 Helping Squeeze Extra Performance Out Of AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 08/28/2020 - 22:55
At the end of June AMD quietly released a new version of the AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler. Noticing the new release this week, here are some benchmarks of AOCC 2.2 up against LLVM Clang 10 and GCC 10 with Ubuntu Linux while running from an AMD EPYC 7742 2P server for looking at the performance gains possible with the compiler optimizations.

Mesa 20.2 Should Be Released In About Two Weeks - LLVMpipe OpenGL 4.5 Enabled

Phoronix - Fri, 08/28/2020 - 21:24
After forgetting to release last week, Mesa 20.2-RC3 is out as the newest test build of this quarterly Mesa3D feature release for the collection of open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers...

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