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Intel's Initial Graphics Updates For Linux 5.11: More DG1, Integer Scaling, Async Flips

Phoronix - Wed, 11/04/2020 - 16:46
There's still more than one month to go until the Linux 5.11 merge window kicks off but Intel open-source developers have already submitted their initial batch of kernel graphics driver updates to DRM-Next...

5 ways to decide if a software package is trustworthy

opensource.com - Wed, 11/04/2020 - 16:01

Open source software is everywhere these days—which is great—but how can you be sure that you should trust the software you've downloaded to do what you want? The area of software supply chain management—of which this discussion forms a part—is fairly newly visible in the industry but is growing in importance. I'm going to consider a particular example.


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Streamline your JavaScript code with top-level await

opensource.com - Wed, 11/04/2020 - 16:00

JavaScript is a popular programming language that started out as a single-threaded, synchronous language, meaning that one step runs after another step without waiting to fetch any external resources or perform any lengthy calculation or process. If the script requires such a resource or calculation, this synchronous behavior results in an error. This blocks all other processes in the queue from running whether or not they were dependent on the step that produced the error.


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FFmpeg Lands VA-API AV1 Decode Support Led By Intel

Phoronix - Wed, 11/04/2020 - 15:00
With Intel Gen12 Xe-LP / Tiger Lake supporting AV1 accelerated decoding, Intel has provided this support via their open-source media stack on Linux that is then exposed via the Video Acceleration API (VA-API). Intel has now landed their patches for supporting VA-API AV1 decode with FFmpeg...

BpyTop – Resource Monitoring Tool for Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 11/04/2020 - 14:37

BpyTOP is another Linux command-line utility for resource monitoring among many other utilities like a top, Htop, Bashtop, etc. bashtop users can expect similar features in bpytop since bpytop is ported from bashtop and

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OpenSolaris-Derived OmniOS CE Updated With A Ton Of Changes

Phoronix - Wed, 11/04/2020 - 13:08
In addition to OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.10 having just been released, OmniOS v11 r151036 as another operating system long ago derived from OpenSolaris is also out with a big new release...

Red Hat Ascend program helps partners fill the skills gap

Red Hat News - Wed, 11/04/2020 - 13:00

With the increasing demand in the marketplace for open source technologies, ensuring that the workforce is adequately skilled to meet these demands head-on is a top priority for CIOs. Large organizations are facing a crucial skills gap, which can disrupt delivery capabilities and lead to client dissatisfaction.

OpenZFS 2.0-RC5 Released With Linux 5.10 Compatibility Updates, Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 11/04/2020 - 06:00
The trek to OpenZFS 2.0 continues with the fifth release candidate now being outed...

Panfrost Gallium3D To Focus On Better Performance, OpenGL 3.1 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 11/04/2020 - 04:45
With Mesa 20.3 that should be released as stable in December there is working Arm Bifrost graphics support for the open-source Panfrost Gallium3D while looking past that this Arm Mali driver is going to be focusing on better performance and desktop OpenGL 3.1 support...

Cincoze GM-1000 - A Rugged, GPU-Focused, Fan-Less Industrial Computer

Phoronix - Wed, 11/04/2020 - 01:42
Cincoze is a brand we previously haven't tested at Phoronix but is a Chinese manufacturer of embedded computers. The company's recently introduced GM-1000 is advertised as a "Machine Vision Embedded Computer" geared for a variety of industrial applications in being constructed within a well engineered aluminum enclosure that is fan-less thanks to an array of heatpipes and chassis serving as a heatsink while offering MXM-based GPU expansion and a total system power budget of up to 360 Watts.

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