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RADV Lands More Fixes + Performance Improvements Into Mesa 19.3

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2019 - 18:46
It's always great waking up and to find RADV improvements in Mesa Git for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver that is particularly popular with Linux gamers...

Chrome 78 Arrives With Dark Mode Enhancements, Native File System API, SMS Receiver API

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2019 - 18:09
In addition to Mozilla Firefox 70 having been released on Tuesday, Google released Chrome 78 as the newest version of their web-browser...

Valve's SteamOS Compositor Has Begun Seeing Some Activity Recently

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2019 - 16:40
SteamOS Brewmaster hasn't seen any updates in a while (SteamOS 2.195 came out this summer with minor updates) though recently Valve's SteamOS Compositor GitHub repository did see some activity igniting hopes we could see a new release still this year... Well, it would be really great seeing a release re-based to Debian 10 "Buster" but any activity would be welcome even just pulling in all of their Linux graphics driver infrastructure updates they've funded in recent times...

OpenChrome Still Aspiring For Open-Source VIA Graphics, But Not Going Mainline This Year

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2019 - 15:40
At the X.Org Developers Conference earlier this month Kevin Brace provided an update on the state of the OpenChrome project that he continues to single handedly push forward...

How to program with Bash: Loops

opensource.com - Wed, 10/23/2019 - 15:03

Bash is a powerful programming language, one perfectly designed for use on the command line and in shell scripts. This three-part series, based on my three-volume Linux self-study course, explores using Bash as a programming language on the command-line interface (CLI).


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How to program with Bash: Loops

opensource.com - Wed, 10/23/2019 - 15:03

Bash is a powerful programming language, one perfectly designed for use on the command line and in shell scripts. This three-part series, based on my three-volume Linux self-study course, explores using Bash as a programming language on the command-line interface (CLI).


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Building container images with the ansible-bender tool

opensource.com - Wed, 10/23/2019 - 15:02

Containers and Ansible blend together so nicely—from management and orchestration to provisioning and building. In this article, we'll focus on the building part.

If you are familiar with Ansible, you know that you can write a series of tasks, and the ansible-playbook command will execute them for you. Did you know that you can also execute such commands in a container environment and get the same result as if you'd written a Dockerfile and run podman build.

Here is an example:


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Best practices in test-driven development

opensource.com - Wed, 10/23/2019 - 15:00

In my previous series on test-driven development (TDD) and mutation testing, I demonstrated the benefits of relying on examples when building a solution. That begs the question: What does "relying on examples" mean?


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How to Install Cockpit Web Console in CentOS 8

Tecmint - Wed, 10/23/2019 - 14:35
In this article, we will help you to install Cockpit Web Console in CentOS 8 server to manage and monitor your local system, as well as Linux servers situated in your network environment. You...

XDC2020 X.Org/Wayland/Mesa Conference To Be Hosted In Gdansk, Poland

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2019 - 12:16
At the XDC2019 X.Org Developers Conference earlier this month in Montreal they named the location of XDC2020 in Europe...

Khronos Rolls Out OpenVX 1.3 While Updating OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2019 - 05:42
It's a busy day in the royalty-free API space...

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