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Proposed Patches Would Enable FP16 Pixel Format Support For Older AMD GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 12/29/2020 - 22:52
Patches posted on Monday by independent open-source contributor Mario Kleiner would enable FP16 pixel format support for older generations of AMD Radeon GPUs...

Ubuntu Had A Stellar 2020 From Ubuntu 20.04 LTS To Continued WSL, Cloud Popularity

Phoronix - Tue, 12/29/2020 - 22:25
Ubuntu had a rather successful 2020 with the well received Ubuntu 20.04 LTS debut to continuing to make upstream improvements to GNOME, their adoption in the cloud and Windows Subsystem for Linux remaining strong, and all around Ubuntu being on steady footing across all areas of focus...

56 Patches Volleyed For Improving Intel Linux Graphics Driver Scheduling

Phoronix - Tue, 12/29/2020 - 21:08
Longtime Intel open-source graphics driver developer Chris Wilson sent out a set of 56 patches today working to improve their kernel graphics driver's scheduling performance...

AES-NI XTS To See 2~3x Performance Recovery After Regressing Hard From Retpolines

Phoronix - Tue, 12/29/2020 - 19:19
It turns out the Intel/AMD AES-NI implementation of XTS regressed hard from the Retpolines functionality merged nearly three years ago for mitigating Spectre... But now the crypto performance with the AES-NI XTS implementation is set to recover from that regression with a huge improvement thanks to a new set of patches...

Bring an old MacBook back to life with Linux

opensource.com - Tue, 12/29/2020 - 16:02

Recently, I stumbled on an old MacBook Pro 13" from late 2011, with a 125GB SSD and 8GB RAM. I've taken this machine on trips around the world, and back in the day, I ran many a session, workshop, or demo to share all the AppDev goodness from JBoss technologies.

After verifying that its battery works, charging it up, and reinstalling a new OS X, it turns out that the Safari browser version is limited to an old security specification, which means it can't connect to a lot of HTTPS sites now. This renders this solution defunct.

What to do with this old thing?


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Show progress in your Python apps with tqdm

opensource.com - Tue, 12/29/2020 - 16:01

The Semitic root q-d-m in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Arabic is usually associated with moving forward or making progress. The Arabic word taqaddum (تقدّم) means "progress." Progress is important. As every feel-good movie will tell you, the journey is as important as the destination.


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Experience alternate computing with the Pe text editor

opensource.com - Tue, 12/29/2020 - 16:00

The Haiku operating system is a bold but successful attempt at reviving an old OS called BeOS. In the 1990s, BeOS was positioned to become the foundation for the next evolution of the Apple Mac line of computers. Back in the 1990s, Apple Inc. was poised to acquire BeOS as its next generation operating system. At the last minute, however, Apple decided the price was too steep and acquired the UNIX-based NeXT operating system instead (and so Mac OS X was born).


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How to Convert PDF to Image Using Gimp

Tecmint - Tue, 12/29/2020 - 14:16

This article will be showing you how to convert the pages of a PDF document to image files (PNG, JPEG, and others) using the GIMP tool in Linux. GIMP is a free, open-source, fully-featured

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