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Intel Is Using IGC In Their Windows Drivers, Internal Prototype For Mesa

Phoronix - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 21:00
At Intel's Architecture Day this week the company was talking about work on their new Windows graphics driver that is being timed for Xe but supporting existing generations of hardware as well. One of the interesting takeaways was seeing the Windows driver is now using the open-source "IGC" back-end...

Intel oneAPI 1.0 "Gold" Is Coming Later This Year

Phoronix - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 21:00
Recently I wrote about it looking like oneAPI 1.0 was lining up and now there is further confirmation of the first production release of this Intel software collection indeed coming this year...

Qt Creator 4.13 RC Released With Initial Meson Integration, Updated C++ Code Model

Phoronix - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 18:34
The Qt Company today issued the first release candidate of their forthcoming Qt Creator 4.13 integrated development environment as well as a beta of their Qt Design Studio 1.6...

FUSE Read/Write Passthrough Updated For Much Better File-System Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 15:48
Of various criticisms around FUSE for implementing file-systems in user-space, one of the most prolific issues is around the performance generally being much lower than a proper file-system kernel driver. But with the FUSE passthrough functionality that continue to be worked on, there is the potential for much better FUSE file-system performance...

How to use printf to format output

opensource.com - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 15:01

When I started learning Unix, I was introduced to the echo command pretty early in the process. Likewise, my initial Python lesson involved the print function. Picking up C++ and Java introduced me to cout and systemout. It seemed every language proudly had a convenient one-line method of producing output and advertised it like it was going out of style.


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Our favorite open source writing tools

opensource.com - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 15:00

Writing is one of the primary ways we communicate, and it's endlessly fascinating to see the different ways writers work. I can hardly imagine writing before computers and their ability to instantly edit and rearrange the words I've typed onto a screen. Likewise, I wonder whether people who started out writing on a typewriter process their thoughts differently, even on a modern word processor, or whether their workflow has changed and adapted because of these new tools.


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Install Multiple Linux Distributions Using PXE Network Boot on RHEL/CentOS 8

Tecmint - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 13:10
PXE Server – Preboot eXecution Environment is a standardized client-server architecture that instructs a client system to boot, run, or install multiple Linux operating systems using a PXE-capable network interface on your network infrastructure.

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