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CS:GO Trust Factor Fixed For Linux Gamers With Mesa Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 20:31
A few weeks ago we wrote about Mesa 21.x drivers with OpenGL threading causing issues for the "Trust Factor" within the popular game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Thanks to possible intervention by Gabe Newell, this trust factor issue seems now resolved for allowing these Linux gamers with open-source graphics drivers to play on the more competitive CS:GO servers...

New Patches Posted For Linux Runtime Verification

Phoronix - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 19:12
A new patch series has been posted implementing Runtime Verification (RV) for the Linux kernel...

XDC2021 Goes Virtual Again As Annual Wayland / Mesa / X.Org Summit

Phoronix - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 18:24
To no surprise at all, the X.Org Developers' Conference 2021 will be carried out virtually similar to last year given the COVID-19 pandemic. The free XDC2021 registration and call for presentations has now been issued...

Multigen LRU Patches Updated For Addressing Linux's Expensive Page Reclaimation

Phoronix - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 18:03
One of the interesting performance-related kernel patch series to come about so far this year has been Google's multi-generational LRU framework that is promising to offer much better performance in addressing the kernel's expensive page reclaimation handling...

Remap your Caps Lock key on Linux

opensource.com - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 15:01

There have been many life-changing Linux moments for me, but most fade into my backstory as they become the status quo. There's one little keyboard trick Linux taught me that I'm reminded of every time I use it (maybe 1,000 times a day), and that's converting the Caps Lock key to Ctrl.


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Make your API better with this positional trick from Python 3.8

opensource.com - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 15:00

This is the ninth in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Python 3.8 was first released in 2019, and two years later, many of its cool new features remain underused. Here are three of them.


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The Best PowerPoint Alternatives for Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 14:15
The post The Best PowerPoint Alternatives for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you are a Linux user and looking for the best PowerPoint alternative (either desktop or web-based), you have come to the right place. In this article, you will find a brief overview of

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Intel Alder Lake P, XeLPD Display Enablement Sent In Ahead Of Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 12:00
With the Linux 5.13 merge window past, Intel's open-source graphics driver developers have submitted their initial queue of new patches to DRM-Next of material they have ready ahead of the Linux 5.14 kernel cycle this summer...

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