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Microsoft Doubles Their Commits To Mesa This Week

Phoronix - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 19:19
More than a dozen patches were merged by a Microsoft engineer into Mesa yesterday...

30-bit Deep Color For GNOME On Wayland Will Likely Take Some Time

Phoronix - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 19:04
As written about at the start of the month, well known GNOME contributor Daniel van Vugt of Canonical/Ubuntu has added tackling deep color support to his TODO list for being able to properly handle 30-bit color on the desktop...

Shrink PDF size with this command line trick

opensource.com - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 15:02

My wife tutors students throughout the year, and recently she wanted to assign homework by scanning some workbook pages into a file and emailing them to her students. She asked for my help, so I used Simple Scan, a document scanning application for GNOME.


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The surprising thing you can do in the D programming language

opensource.com - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 15:01

Software development can be a very complex process. As the code you write increases in size and complexity, it is important to keep it readable and easy to understand. In open source software development, many people collaborate on code with several interconnected and, quite often, frequently moving parts. This can make it hard for potential contributors to understand the codebases.


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Combine GraphQL with Java to build a flexible and modern API

opensource.com - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 15:00

In the past few years, developers have used RESTful web services over HTTP(s) to expose business functions using an API. The REST API uses server-driven fixed data responses, which means a developer (client) can't determine the result of a response. Instead, the server sends all the data back to the client, which is called over-fetching. The developer (client) needs to invoke multiple REST APIs after the first call until the client gets the required data, which results in under-fetching.


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LLVM's libclc Adds Mesa SPIR-V Target

Phoronix - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 14:57
Continuing on with all of the OpenCL Mesa work that's been going on by Red Hat developers in recent time, LLVM's libclc library now has support for targeting Mesa SPIR-V...

How to Install Pop!_OS on Your Computer

Tecmint - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 14:07
Pop_OS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and built by System76. It is specifically built for software developers, makers, and computer science professionals who use their computer as a tool to discover and

Reiser4/Reiser5 Updated For Linux 5.8

Phoronix - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 12:00
Edward Shishkin continues pushing ahead with not only maintaining the existing out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system code but also developing Reiser5 seemingly without any major corporate support. Reiser4 and the experimental Reiser5 file-system code were updated on Monday for Linux 5.8 kernel compatibility...

OpenGL 4.5 Now Enabled For LLVMpipe With Mesa 20.3, To Be Back-Ported For 20.2

Phoronix - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 08:32
It landed sooner than anticipated but the LLVMpipe patches enabling OpenGL 4.5 support were merged to Mesa 20.3-devel today and are also marked for back-porting to the Mesa 20.2 series soon to be promoted to stable...

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