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NVIDIA 390.132 Linux Driver Released For Legacy Fermi Support

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2019 - 03:41
Not nearly as exciting as the recent NVIDIA 440 Linux driver series going stable but for those with older Fermi graphics cards and wanting to use the latest NVIDIA binary driver experience, their 390 series legacy driver series has been updated...

AMDVLK 2019.Q4.2 Brings Several More Extensions, Game Tuning

Phoronix - Fri, 11/08/2019 - 20:49
AMDVLK 2019.Q4.2 is out today as AMD's second open-source Radeon Vulkan Linux driver update for the fourth quarter...

Project Trident Offers Initial Images Of Itself Reborn As A Void-Based Linux Distro

Phoronix - Fri, 11/08/2019 - 20:33
Project Trident made some waves last month when this lesser-known BSD distribution derived from TrueOS/FreeBSD decided to switch to becoming a Linux distribution that they decided would be based upon Void Linux. Now the very preliminary alpha images of Project Trident as a Linux operating system are available for testing...

QEMU 4.2 Cycle Kicks Off With Inaugural Release Candidate

Phoronix - Fri, 11/08/2019 - 17:24
The initial release candidate for the upcoming QEMU 4.2 is now available as a sizable update to this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

How to manage music tags using metaflac

opensource.com - Fri, 11/08/2019 - 16:02

I've been ripping CDs to my computer for a long time now. Over that time, I've used several different tools for ripping, and I have observed that each tool seems to have a different take on tagging, specifically, what metadata to save with the music data. By "observed," I mean that music players seem to sort albums in a funny order, they split tracks in one physical directory into two albums, or they create other sorts of frustrating irritations.


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My first open source contribution: Talk about your pull request

opensource.com - Fri, 11/08/2019 - 16:01

Previously, I wrote about keeping your code relevant when making a contribution to an open source project. Now, you finally click Create pull request. You're elated, you're done.

At first, I didn’t even care whether my code would get merged or not. I had done my part. I knew I could do it. The future lit up with the many future pull requests that I would make to open source projects.


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My Linux story: Learning Linux in the 90s

opensource.com - Fri, 11/08/2019 - 16:00

Most people probably don't remember where they, the computing industry, or the everyday world were in 1996. But I remember that year very clearly. I was a sophomore in high school in the middle of Kansas, and it was the start of my journey into free and open source software (FOSS).


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