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RADV Lands "Big Page" Optimization For Navi 2

Phoronix - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 19:03
It's not clear if AMD has provided the independent RADV Vulkan driver developers at the likes of Valve, Red Hat, and Google with any Navi 2 hardware yet, but they do seem to be making progress on this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver separate from their official AMDVLK open-source driver...

How to Setup Sublime Text sFTP for Remote Development

Tecmint - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 18:05

This article is the second in a series about sublime text and how to set it up for remote development using the SFTP package. I suggest you refer to our previous article about the

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GNOME 3.38's Mutter Gets More Optimizations - ~10% Lower Render Time In Some Scenarios

Phoronix - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 15:49
Even more optimizations have now been queued up for GNOME 3.38 launching this month...

Open ports and route traffic through your firewall

opensource.com - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 15:02

Ideally, most local networks are protected from the outside world. If you've ever tried installing a service, such as a web server or a Nextcloud instance at home, then you probably know from first-hand experience that, while the service is easy to reach from inside the network, it's unreachable over the worldwide web.


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Design a book cover with an open source alternative to InDesign

opensource.com - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 15:01

I recently finished writing a book about C programming, which I self-published through Lulu.com. I've used Lulu for several book projects, and it's a great platform. Earlier this year, Lulu made changes that give authors greater control over creating their book covers. Previously, you just uploaded a pair of large-format images for the front and back book covers. Now, Lulu allows authors to upload a custom PDF exactly sized to your book's dimensions.


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My dramatic journey to becoming an open source engineer

opensource.com - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 15:00

It's been five years and a heck of a journey from being a non-programmer to becoming an associate software engineer at Red Hat. It's a story worth telling—not because I have achieved a lot, but because of so much drama and so many pitfalls. So grab a cup of coffee, and I will share the unturned pages of my love story with technology.


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GCC Is Currently Faster Than LLVM's Clang At Compiling The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 12:00
While LLVM's Clang C/C++ compiler was traditionally known for its faster build speeds than GCC, in recent releases of GCC the build speeds have improved and in some areas LLVM/Clang has slowed down with further optimization passes and other work added to its growing code-base. As it stands right now, GCC is faster than Clang at compiling the Linux kernel...

Linux From Scratch 10.0 Released For Rolling Your Own Linux Installation From Source

Phoronix - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 09:02
Just over twenty years after the Linux From Scratch project was started as a guide/book to building all of the software components manually from source, Linux From Scratch 10.0 has been released...

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