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RADV ACO SMEM Patches Land - Taking ACO To Feature Parity With AMDGPU LLVM

Phoronix - Wed, 06/24/2020 - 20:24
As of today in Mesa 20.2-devel Git, the Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) with the ACO back-end is now effectively at feature-parity to the default AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end...

Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 Milestone 2 Released For Open-Source/Linux Benchmarking

Phoronix - Wed, 06/24/2020 - 19:45
Building off Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 M1 from the start of June, the second development "milestone" release is now available for our cross-platform, open-source automated benchmarking software...

AMDVLK 2020.Q2.5 Driver Released With Some New Bits + Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 06/24/2020 - 18:40
AMDVLK 2020.Q2.5 is out today as the newest snapshot of this open-source official AMD Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems...

Mesa 20.2 Gets A Release Schedule With Hopes Of Shipping By End Of August

Phoronix - Wed, 06/24/2020 - 16:00
It should hardly come as a surprise if you regularly follow the Mesa quarterly release cadence for these open-source Vulkan/OpenGL drivers, but a release schedule has now been committed for next quarter's Mesa 20.2...

Tips for switching your team to a SharePoint open source alternative

opensource.com - Wed, 06/24/2020 - 15:01

MediaWiki is many IT professionals' first exposure to wikis. By virtue of being the platform behind Wikipedia, MediaWiki's familiarity makes it a compelling open source alternative to proprietary technology like Atlassian Confluence, which is common with developers, and SharePoint, the default corporate collaboration platform.


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Why you should use Node.js for data science

opensource.com - Wed, 06/24/2020 - 15:00

JavaScript (also known as JS) is the lingua franca of the web, as it is supported by all the major web browsers—the other languages that run in browsers are transpiled (or translated) to JavaScript.


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A surprising way to do data science with Node.js

opensource.com - Wed, 06/24/2020 - 15:00

JavaScript (also known as JS) is the lingua franca of the web, as it is supported by all the major web browsers—the other languages that run in browsers are transpiled (or translated) to JavaScript.


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Customize your Raspberry Pi operating system for everyday use

opensource.com - Wed, 06/24/2020 - 15:00

If you have a Raspberry Pi running Raspberry Pi OS (previously known as Raspbian) operating system, you know it's an awesome little computer with a great operating system for beginners that includes just about everything you could possibly want. However, once you become familiar with the Pi and want to start using it for other things, you might want an operating system (OS) that doesn't include everything in the default build.


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How to Download and Install RHEL 8 for Free

Tecmint - Wed, 06/24/2020 - 14:01
Chances are that you might have heard that RHEL 8 comes at a cost and because of that, you might have opted to go for CentOS 8 instead. The good news is that you...

How To Host a Website with HTTPS Using Caddy on Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 06/24/2020 - 13:50
A web server is a server-side application designed to process HTTP requests between client and server. HTTP is the basic and very widely used network protocol. Apache HTTP Server played an important role in...

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