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Mesa Enjoyed A Record-Setting Year With Intel G3D Default, RADV ACO, Faster Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 01/01/2021 - 19:43
2020 was easily the best year yet for Mesa with this collection of open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers seeing timely new hardware support, Intel's OpenGL support defaulting to Iris Gallium3D, the Radeon Vulkan (RADV) driver adding and defaulting to the ACO compiler back-end, many performance optimizations throughout, timely new GPU hardware support, and a lot more!..

Panfrost Gallium3D Seeing Some Work Towards Clover OpenCL Support

Phoronix - Fri, 01/01/2021 - 19:13
The Panfrost open-source Gallium3D driver matured into good shape over the course of 2020 with providing OpenGL support for Arm Mali graphics hardware. As we enter 2021 it will be interesting to see this year if any "Panfrost Vulkan" driver materializes for open-source Vulkan support on the newer Mali graphics hardware. But at least one area making interesting process is in regards to OpenCL compute support...

Resize images using Python

opensource.com - Fri, 01/01/2021 - 18:00

I love Python, and I've been learning it for a while now. Some time ago, I wrote a Python script where I needed to resize a bunch of images while at the same time keeping the aspect ratio (the proportions) intact. So I looked around and found Pillow, a Python imaging library and "friendly fork" of an old library just called PIL. 


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Solve a charity's problem with the Julia programming language

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

I have been writing a series of articles about solving a nice, small, and somewhat unusual problem in different programming languages (Groovy, Python, and Java so far).


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Happy New Year! 5 things we learned last year

opensource.com - Fri, 01/01/2021 - 16:00

As we ring in a new year that many hope will look a lot different than 2020, I propose we try to keep a few things that difficult year gave us:


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How to Convert PDF to Image in Linux Command Line

Tecmint - Fri, 01/01/2021 - 13:53

pdftoppm converts PDF document pages to image formats like PNG, and others. It is a command-line tool that can convert an entire PDF document into separate image files. With pdftoppm, you can specify the

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Happy New Year! A Look Back At The Most Popular Phoronix Content Of 2020

Phoronix - Fri, 01/01/2021 - 09:34
After 219 Linux hardware reviews / benchmark featured articles and 3,206 original news articles on Phoronix for 2020, it's finally time to put a wrap on this year... Happy New Year and 2021 couldn't have come soon enough!..

Linux 5.12 Should See ACPI Platform Profile Support To Alter System Thermal/Power Levels

Phoronix - Fri, 01/01/2021 - 05:57
Thanks to the ongoing upstream improvements being pursued by Lenovo as part of their effort to enhance their product support, the Linux power management tree has picked up the initial ACPI Platform Profile implementation for benefiting newer devices like Lenovo laptops...

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