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Unity 8 Desktop Renamed To Lomiri

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 21:45
The Unity 8 desktop environment that continues to be developed by the UBports open-source community for use on UBports' Ubuntu Touch and ultimately back on the Linux desktop as well have renamed the project...

Radeon ROCm 3.1 Released With RAS For Vega 7nm, SLURM Support

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 21:38
A new version of the Radeon Open Compute "ROCm" stack is available today but it still doesn't deliver on Navi support...

RADV Vulkan Driver Begins Wiring Up Support For Radeon's SQ Thread Trace Block

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 20:47
On top of the Mesa "RADV" Vulkan driver's recent support for using the Radeon GPU Profiler with this open-source driver, RADV is now adding support for the SQTT hardware block on Radeon GPUs for expanding the profiling metrics it is able to expose...

LLVMpipe Tessellation Shader Support Is Now Working - Runs Unigine Heaven

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 20:21
The LLVMpipe CPU-based software rasterizer OpenGL driver within Mesa's Gallium3D now has working tessellation shader support (ARB_tessellation_shader) and can even run Unigine Heaven demo properly, just don't expect good performance...

GNOME 3.36 Lands Scaled/Transformed Hardware Cursors Support

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 20:11
Landing just in time for GNOME 3.36 is a merge request that has been open for nearly one year on improving Mutter's hardware cursor handling...

Qt 5.15 Reaches Beta

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 19:41
The Qt Company has released their first beta of the forthcoming Qt 5.15 tool-kit...

How to process real-time data with Apache

opensource.com - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 16:03

In the "always-on" future with billions of connected devices, storing raw data for analysis later will not be an option because users want accurate responses in real time. Prediction of failures and other context-sensitive conditions require data to be processed in real time—certainly before it hits a database.


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Revive your RSS feed in the Linux terminal with Newsboat

opensource.com - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 16:02

Psst. Word on the web is that RSS died in 2013. That's when Google pulled the plug on Google Reader.

Don't believe everything that you hear. RSS is alive. It's well. It's still a great way to choose the information you want to read without algorithms making the decision for you. All you need is the right feed reader.


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Getting started with Linux firewalls

opensource.com - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 16:00

A sensible firewall is your computer's first line of defense against network intrusion. When you're at home, you're probably behind a firewall built into the router supplied by your internet service provider. When you're away from home, though, the only firewall you have is the one running on your computer, so it's important to configure and control the firewall on your Linux computer. If you run a Linux server, it's just as important to know how to manage your firewall so that you can protect it from unwanted traffic both locally and remotely.


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4 technologists on careers in tech for minorities

opensource.com - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 16:00

In honor of Black History Month, I've garnered the opinions of a few of my favorite technology professionals and open source contributors. These four individuals are paving the way for the next generation alongside the work they're doing in the technology industry. Learn what Black History Month means to them, what influences their career, resources for minorities wanting to break into tech, and more.

Tameika Reed, founder of Women In Linux


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