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Mesa's RADV Vulkan Driver Adding Compatibility For Use With The AMD Radeon GPU Profiler

Phoronix - Fri, 02/21/2020 - 23:49
To date the Mesa "RADV" Radeon Vulkan driver hasn't supported AMD's GPUOpen Radeon GPU Profiler but that is changing...

Intel Compute Runtime Adds OCLOC Multi-Device Compilation

Phoronix - Fri, 02/21/2020 - 20:25
Version 20.07.15711 of the Intel Compute Runtime was released this morning...

Intel Ethernet E823 Support Coming To The ICE Driver In Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Fri, 02/21/2020 - 20:01
Intel's ICE driver for the Ethernet E800 series is seeing a new member of the family come Linux 5.7...

Linux EFI Going Through Spring Cleaning Before RISC-V Support Lands

Phoronix - Fri, 02/21/2020 - 19:43
The Linux EFI boot code is going through some "spring cleaning" ahead of the RISC-V EFI support landing that still could make it for the Linux 5.7 kernel cycle this spring...

Linux 5.7 DRM Bringing New "TIDSS" Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 02/21/2020 - 19:25
The first batch of DRM-Misc changes following the recent Linux 5.6 merge window have been merged into DRM-Next in forming the early material that will ultimately come to the Linux 5.7 cycle in April...

Live video streaming with open source Video.js

opensource.com - Fri, 02/21/2020 - 16:02

Last year, I wrote about creating a video streaming server with Linux. That project uses the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RMTP), Nginx web server, Open Broadcast Studio (OBS), and VLC media player.


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Find a file the lazy way with this script

opensource.com - Fri, 02/21/2020 - 16:01

Here's the scenario: Whenever I need some source code or a bundle of art assets or a game from the internet, I download it to my ~/Downloads directory, navigate to the folder, and promptly realize I forgot the file name. It's not that I don't remember what I downloaded; it's the proliferation of file types that throws me off. Was it a tarball or a ZIP file? What was the version number? Have I downloaded a copy before?


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Don't like loops? Try Java Streams

opensource.com - Fri, 02/21/2020 - 16:00

In this article, I will explain how to not write loops anymore.

What? Whaddaya mean, no more loops?


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