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Affordable high-temperature 3D printers at home

opensource.com - Tue, 03/23/2021 - 15:00

3D printers have been around since the 1980s, but they didn't gain popular attention until they became open source, thanks to the RepRap project. RepRap stands for self-replicating rapid prototyper; it's a 3D printer that can largely print itself. The open source plans were released in 2004 and led to 3D printer costs dropping from hundreds of thousands of dollars to a few hundred dollars.


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How to Use until Loop in Your Shell Scripts

Tecmint - Tue, 03/23/2021 - 12:45
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In bash for, while, and until are three loop constructs. While each loop differs syntactically and functionally their purpose is to iterate over a block of code when a certain expression is evaluated. Until

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Proposal Raised For Dropping Mesa's Classic OpenGL Drivers From Mainline This Year

Phoronix - Tue, 03/23/2021 - 06:54
It's been proposed in the past but never acted upon yet but the idea of dropping/retiring Mesa's "classic" OpenGL drivers from the mainline code-base and letting them potentially live on in an "LTS" branch has once again been brought up...

AMD Prepares USB-C Linux Driver Support For Radeon Graphics Cards

Phoronix - Tue, 03/23/2021 - 04:49
With some Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards sporting a USB-C interface for USB-C monitors or VR headsets, AMD has been working on the open-source Linux driver support for this interface...

IBM Lands Last Minute POWER10 Updates Into GCC 11 Compiler

Phoronix - Tue, 03/23/2021 - 01:12
In addition to the last minute AMD Zen 3 "znver3" tuning in GCC 11, also landing rather late are scheduling updates for the GNU Compiler Collection around the IBM POWER10 processor target...

OpenPOWER Microwatt To See Chip Fabrication Thanks To Google + Skywater

Phoronix - Mon, 03/22/2021 - 23:22
Announced back in 2019 was the OpenPOWER Microwatt FPGA Soft CPU Core. OpenPOWER's Microwatt is a VHDL-based design for an open-source POWER ISA processor. core. The Microwatt is a basic 64-bit POWER core that can be run for software simulations or on FPGA hardware. But now Microwatt will actually see chip fabrication thanks to a program sponsored by Google...

The Linux Foundation Wants To Help Water Farms From The Cloud

Phoronix - Mon, 03/22/2021 - 21:39
Of the many possible areas for advancing Linux and open-source, the latest project being embraced by the Linux Foundation is Liquid Prep for helping farmers water their crops. It's a noble cause but not too Linux centered unless talking about cloud resources...

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