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Adaptive-Sync/VRR Seeing Port To xf86-video-modesetting Driver

Phoronix - Mon, 05/25/2020 - 21:51
Currently if wanting to use Adaptive-Sync/FreeSync variable refresh rate support of the AMDGPU DRM kernel driver you need to be using the xf86-video-amdgpu X.Org driver for proper handling as well, but a port of the DDX bits to the generic xf86-video-modesetting driver is in the works...

Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.1 Released For Cross-Platform, Open-Source Benchmarking

Phoronix - Mon, 05/25/2020 - 21:33
One month after the big Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 release, Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.1 is out as the first and only planned point release to this quarter's feature series...

Two More Projects Join KWinFT Fork Of KDE KWin, Beta Milestone Reached

Phoronix - Mon, 05/25/2020 - 19:35
Announced over one month ago was KWinFT as a fork of KDE's KWin with an emphasis on improving the Wayland support and better embracing modern technologies. A beta of KWinFT is now available...

AMD Energy Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.8 For Core/Package Power Sensors

Phoronix - Mon, 05/25/2020 - 19:00
Landing this weekend in hwmon-next ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.8 kernel cycle is the recently reported on "amd_energy" driver for supporting AMD Zen/Zen2 core and package energy sensors...

GCC's JIT Library Sees Experimental Port To Windows

Phoronix - Mon, 05/25/2020 - 18:32
For several years now GCC has offered a embeddable JIT compiler that for GPL applications can serve as a bytecode interpreter, an experimental Python compiler, and other possible use-cases with this libgccjit library. There now are patches pending for bringing libgccjit to Windows...

Unboxing the latest Linux laptop from System76

opensource.com - Mon, 05/25/2020 - 15:02

I've been on a journey from Mac to Linux since joining the staff at Opensource.com almost two years ago. In a huge step for me, I finally made the call to have my personal laptop also run Linux. Due to the coverage of System76 in our community, I thought I'd give it a shot.

I'm coming from a MacBook Pro as my go-to device, so I went with a near-standard build of the Lemur Pro for a comparable system. A reasonably priced upgrade to more RAM and a speedy NVMe hard drive later, my order was on its way.


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Why I'm enjoying learning Rust as a Java programmer

opensource.com - Mon, 05/25/2020 - 15:01

It's been a long time since I properly learned a new language—computer or human. Maybe 25 years. That language was Java, and although I've had to write little bits of C (very, very little) and JavaScript in the meantime, the only two languages I've written much actual code in have been Perl and Java.


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How Cloud-init can be used for your Raspberry Pi homelab

opensource.com - Mon, 05/25/2020 - 15:00

Cloud-init is a standard—it would not be a stretch to say it is the standard—that cloud providers use to provide initialization and configuration data to cloud instances. It is used most often on the first boot of a new instance to automate network setup, account creation, and SSH (secure shell) key installation—anything required to bring a new system online so that it is accessible by the user.


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rdiff-backup – A Powerful Incremental Backup Tool Now Supports Python 3

Tecmint - Mon, 05/25/2020 - 13:46
This improvement was officially released and published on March 15, 2020, with Version 2.0.0 and distributed on the GitHub site. The much appreciated Rdiff-backup application allows users to back up a directory to another...

Kali Linux 2020.2 Released – Download DVD ISO Images

Tecmint - Mon, 05/25/2020 - 13:25
Kali Linux (formerly known as BackTrack Linux) announced the release of Kali Linux Version 2020.2 on May 12th, 2020. Kali Linux is a Debian based distribution specially focused on penetration testing and digital forensics...

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