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As more last minute work for the upcoming Mesa 20.0 is initial OpenGL tessellation support for Intel's OpenSWR driver...

NVIDIA on Thursday introduced Nsight Graphics 2020.1 that to its profiling support can now handle OpenGL + Vulkan interoperability for games/applications making use of both APIs. While not many game engines / apps are yet using the likes of OpenGL 4.6 ARB_gl_spirv, Nsight is ready...

Rocket League is ending support for Mac and Linux  VG247

AMD adds Zen 3 technology to the kernel of Linux  Industry Global News 24

MIG and Astra Linux start selling new, secure tablet with Russian operating system  Telecompaper

Psyonix will kill online Rocket League games this March on macOS/Linux  TweakTown

While the Linux 5.5 kernel isn't even released yet, it's ideally coming out on Sunday should there not be a one week delay. But in any event Arm's Will Deacon has already sent in the pull request of the ARM architecture changes for Linux 5.6...

Arm Has Many Changes On Tap For Linux 5.6 From Spectre/Meltdown Bits To New RNG  Phoronix

Global Linux Operating System Market Competitive Intelligence Insights 2020 – 2024 : IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS  NY Telecast 99

Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using.

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With so many tools on the web offered as services, there's more to getting organized than just choosing the most convenient online vendor.

You have to think of your system of organization as part of your product, whether that's personal productivity or a software project you ship to hundreds or thousands of users. Using open source isn't a matter of brand loyalty. Open source is about you owning the tools that enable you to do what you do.

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Being able to validate your network connection speed puts you in control of your computer. Three open source tools that enable you to check your internet and network speeds at the command line are Speedtest, Fast, and iPerf.

Speedtest

Speedtest is an old favorite. It's implemented in Python, packaged in Apt, and also available with pip. You can use it as a command-line tool or within a Python script.

Install it with:

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The MIPS-based SGI Octane IRIX workstations were first introduced in the late 90's while recently there has been a resurgence in the work on getting these vintage PCs running off a mainline Linux kernel...

Two Decades Late: Mainline Linux Kernel Getting Keyboard / Mouse Driver For SGI Octane  Phoronix

Converseen is an open source batch image processor for Windows and Linux  Ghacks Technology News

Seafile is an open-source, high-performance, secure and enterprise-ready file synchronization and sharing solution built using Python. It features simple data organization using libraries, fast, reliable and efficient synchronization between devices. It comes with built-in...

Mesa 20.0 Now Defaults To The New Intel Gallium3D Driver For Faster OpenGL  Phoronix

After missing their original target of transitioning to Intel Gallium3D by default for Mesa 19.3 as the preferred OpenGL Linux driver on Intel graphics hardware, this milestone has now been reached for Mesa 20.0!..

ZFS On Linux 0.8.3 is out today as the first official update to ZoL since last September...

ZFS On Linux 0.8.3 Released With Many Fixes  Phoronix