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Intel Graphics Compiler Merges New Vector Compute Backend

Phoronix - Fri, 07/24/2020 - 22:03
While Intel on the hardware manufacturing side continues facing stiff challenges, on the open-source software side the company continues making legendary progress. Out in today's Intel Graphics Compiler and in turn Intel Compute Runtime releases as part of their GPGPU toolchain is the recent open-sourcing and integration of their Vector Compute back-end...

Mir 2.0 Released In Dropping Legacy Bits, New Platform Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 07/24/2020 - 21:29
Approaching two years already since the release of Mir 1.0 following its shift to Wayland support, Mir 2.0 is now available...

There's An Effort By A System76 Engineer To Bring Coreboot To Newer AMD Platforms

Phoronix - Fri, 07/24/2020 - 20:50
With System76 working towards offering more AMD Linux laptop options as well as continuing to expand their line-up of AMD desktop offerings, it appears their next hurdle is on bringing Coreboot to these current-generation AMD platforms...

Systemd 246 Release Is Imminent With RC2 Released

Phoronix - Fri, 07/24/2020 - 18:44
Systemd 246 should be shipping in the days ahead...

digiKam 7.0 Open-Source Photo Manager Embraces Deep Learning, Improved HEIF Support

Phoronix - Fri, 07/24/2020 - 18:26
DigiKam 7.0 is out for this KDE/Qt-aligned open-source photography manager solution...

How to Install Eclipse IDE in CentOS, RHEL and Fedora

Tecmint - Fri, 07/24/2020 - 16:20
In this tutorial, we’ll cover the installation process of the latest edition of Eclipse IDE 2020‑06 in CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora-based Linux distributions. Eclipse is a free integrated development environment IDE used by programmers

Linux 5.9 To Support 6GHz WiFi With Qualcomm's Ath11k Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 07/24/2020 - 15:08
The initial batch of WiFi/wireless driver improvements slated for Linux 5.9 landed in net-next this week with a few noteworthy additions...

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