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RADV Lands VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control For Exposing Wave32 On Navi/GFX10

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 21:26
Valve open-source developer Samuel Pitoiset has landed his work enabling the Vulkan VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control extension that for GFX10/Navi is being used to expose Wave32 capabilities...

Arm Porting LLVM's Hardware-Assisted Address Sanitizer To GCC

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 20:21
The latest of LLVM's "sanitizers" being ported for the GCC compiler stack is the hardware-assisted address sanitizer (HWASAN)...

UBports Begins Offering Ubuntu Touch 64-Bit ARM Images

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 19:49
While Ubuntu Touch has run on AArch64 hardware, to date their builds have been focused on 32-bit mode support. Fortunately, for select devices, they are now spinning 64-bit images...

How to Install PHP 7.4 on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 18:26
PHP, a recursive acronym for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, is a popular server-side scripting language used in web development for creating powerful and dynamic websites. In this article, you will learn how to install PHP...

Additional Intel "ANV" Vulkan Driver Performance Numbers For Gen11 Ice Lake Graphics

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 18:19
Complementing the earlier Intel Ice Lake "Gen11" graphics comparison and the Windows vs. Linux Ice Lake graphics driver numbers, here are some additional Vulkan data points in different Linux and Steam Play games...

GCC 7.5 Gearing Up For Release As The Last Compiler Update Of The Series

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 17:40
With GCC 10 due to be released in just a few months, GCC 7.5 is being prepared for release as what will be the last of the GCC7 stable series...

An introduction to monitoring with Prometheus

opensource.com - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 16:02

Metrics are the primary way to represent both the overall health of your system and any other specific information you consider important for monitoring and alerting or observability. Prometheus is a leading open source metric instrumentation, collection, and storage toolkit built at SoundCloud beginning in 2012.


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Getting started with Pimcore: An open source alternative for product information management

opensource.com - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 16:01

Product information management (PIM) software enables sellers to consolidate product data into a centralized repository that acts as a single source of truth, minimizing errors and redundancies in product data.


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My first contribution to open source: Make a fork of the repo

opensource.com - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 16:00

Previously, I explained how I ultimately chose a project for my contributions. Once I finally picked that project and a task to work on, I felt like the hard part was over, and I slid into cruise control. I knew what to do next, no question. Just clone the repository so that I have the code on my computer, make a new branch for my work, and get coding, right?


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GPU Passthrough For FreeBSD's Bhyve Can Work But Is Fairly Rudimentary

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 14:27
FreeBSD's Bhyve hypervisor has had a wild ride over the past half-decade of development for advancing BSD virtualization support. Bhyve is mostly used on the server front but can also fill some desktop use-cases now that there is GPU pass-through support working albeit not yet polished...

Freedreno's MSM DRM Driver Getting Support For Older Adreno Parts On Linux 5.5

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 13:02
Rob Clark and his gang working on the Freedreno/MSM driver stack have prepared their kernel driver changes slated for the upcoming Linux 5.5 cycle...

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