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Mesa 20.0's RADV Driver Deems Navi/GFX10 Stable, Vulkan 1.2 In Good Shape, ACO Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 22:55
With Mesa 20.0 scheduled for branching today (though that could be delayed a few days potentially depending upon last minute requests), there's been a flurry of Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver activity to squeeze into this first Mesa release series of 2020...

GTK4 Data Transfer APIs Being Modernized Around Wayland

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 21:49
Red Hat's Matthias Clasen has provided an update on one of the latest areas the GTK developers are working on finishing up with the forthcoming GTK 4.0 tool-kit... Improving the data transfer interfaces around handling for copy/paste and drag-and-drop...

We Love Performance... So We Love LibreOffice 6.4 With This Office Suite Now Running Faster

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 20:49
LibreOffice 6.4 is out today as the latest feature update to this cross-platform, open-source office suite...

Godot 3.2 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Better Documentation, New Features

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 20:10
While developers are hard at work on Godot 4.0 with Vulkan support, that release won't be ready until mid-2020 so as a result Godot 3.2 is out today as their latest stable release and serving as a "long-term support" release until transitioning to Godot 4...

The Linux 5.6 x86 Platform Driver Changes Are Busy From Quirky Laptops To New Hardware Support

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 18:05
Intel's Andy Shevchenko sent in the x86 platform driver updates on Monday for the newly opened Linux 5.6 merge window. There is the never-ending work on dealing with quirky Windows-focused laptops to adding new Intel hardware support and other additions...

Clang 10 + Linux 5.6 Will Be Able To Build A Working s390 Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 17:06
With LLVM Clang 9.0 and Linux 5.3 together it became possible to build the mainline Linux kernel with this non-GCC compiler. The x86_64 Linux kernel Clang-based kernel builds has continued to improve through newer kernel releases. This follows the mainline AArch64 (64-bit ARM) Linux kernel mainline build by Clang too, which has been of much interest by different hardware/software vendors. There hasn't been much Clang'ing kernel efforts for other architectures, but it turns out with Clang 10 and Linux 5.6 will be another working combination, this time for IBM s390...

3 lessons I've learned writing Ansible playbooks

opensource.com - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 16:03

I've used Ansible since 2013 and maintain some of my original playbooks to this day. They have evolved with Ansible from version 1.4 to the current version (as of this writing, 2.9).


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Use Emacs to get social and track your todo list

opensource.com - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 16:02

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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7 open source desktop tools: Download our new eBook

opensource.com - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 16:00

Linux users say that choice is one of the platform's strengths. On the surface, this might sound self-aggrandizing (or self-deprecating, depending on your perspective). Other operating systems offer choice, too, but once you look at the options available for nearly anything you want to do on Linux, it doesn't take long to conclude that a new word ought to be invented for what we mean by "choice."


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It's Finally Time: The Time Namespace Support Has Been Added To The Linux 5.6 Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 14:45
The Time Namespace, which was originally proposed back in 2018 for allowing per-namespace offsets to the system clocks, has finally entered the mainline kernel in early 2020 with the in-development Linux 5.6 kernel...

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