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NVIDIA 470 Linux Driver Series To Be "Even More Wayland-Friendly"

Phoronix - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 18:56
The next major NVIDIA driver series, the 470 release series, is slated to be "even more Wayland-friendly" but what all that encompasses remains to be seen...

How to Install CHEF Workstation in RHEL and CentOS 8/7

Tecmint - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 16:51
The post How to Install CHEF Workstation in RHEL and CentOS 8/7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Chef is one of the popular configuration management tools, which is used to rapidly automate deployment, configurations, and management of the entire IT infrastructure environment. In the first part of this Chef series, we’ve

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Wine's Project Leader Has Given A Blessing To The Wayland Effort

Phoronix - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 16:30
Published last month was an updated but still experimental version of the native Wayland support for Wine after that code was originally published last year. One of the lingering questions has been around the prospects of mainlining this Wayland driver in Wine while last week the longtime Wine project leader, Alexandre Julliard, provided some clarity on the matter...

Wine's Project Leader Has Given A Blessing To The Wayland Effort

Phoronix - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 16:30
Published last month was an updated but still experimental version of the native Wayland support for Wine after that code was originally published last year. One of the lingering questions has been around the prospects of mainlining this Wayland driver in Wine while last week the longtime Wine project leader, Alexandre Julliard, provided some clarity on the matter...

5 surprising things you can do with LibreOffice from the command line

opensource.com - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 16:02

LibreOffice has all the productivity features you'd want from an office software suite, making it a popular open source alternative to Microsoft Office or Google Suite. One of LibreOffice's powers is the ability to operate from the command line. For example, Seth Kenlon recently explained how he uses a global command-line option to convert multiple files from DOCX to EPUB with LibreOffice. His article inspired me to share some other LibreOffice command-line tips and tricks.


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5 useful Moodle plugins to engage students

opensource.com - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 16:01

A good e-learning platform is important for education all over the world. Teachers need a way to hold classes, students need a friendly user interface to facilitate learning, and administrators need a way to monitor the educational system's effectiveness.

Moodle is an open source software package that allows you to create a private website with interactive online courses. It's helping people gather virtually, teach and learn from one another, and stay organized while doing it.


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Build a printer UI for Raspberry Pi with XML and Java

opensource.com - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 16:00

Creating a GUI from scratch is a very time consuming process, dealing with all the positions and alignments in hard code can be really tough for some programmers. In this article, I demonstrate how to speed up this process using XML.


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hipSYCL Sees Work-In-Progress Support For Intel oneAPI Level Zero Backend

Phoronix - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 13:00
hipSYCL, the innovative implementation of Khronos' SYCL for targeting CPUs and GPUs by integrating with existing toolchains, is seeing work on supporting Intel oneAPI Level Zero for running directly off Intel graphics hardware...

hipSYCL Sees Work-In-Progress Support For Intel oneAPI Level Zero Backend

Phoronix - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 13:00
hipSYCL, the innovative implementation of Khronos' SYCL for targeting CPUs and GPUs by integrating with existing toolchains, is seeing work on supporting Intel oneAPI Level Zero for running directly off Intel graphics hardware...

Even In 2021, Intel Squeezes Some Very Nice Performance Gains Out Of Their OpenGL Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 07:33
While it's 2021 and many modern Linux gaming and other workloads are focusing on the Vulkan API, Intel isn't letting up in their aggressive optimizations to their open-source "Iris" OpenGL Gallium3D driver for Linux systems. With the latest Mesa 21.1 code today there is a set of patches providing up to 17% better performance in some games while other OpenGL software is generally a few percent faster at least. In some micro-benchmarks it can be more than 50% faster...

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