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Linux 5.7 Seeing Radeon FreeSync Fixes, Back-Ported Soft Recovery For Navi

Phoronix - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 19:19
While yesterday GFX10/Navi soft recovery support was sent in to DRM-Next for Linux 5.8, today that material was sent in as a "fix" for Linux 5.7 along with a number of other AMDGPU driver alterations...

AMDVLK 2020.Q2.3 Released With New Extension, Various Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 18:50
AMDVLK 2020.Q2.3 was released today as the newest version of this official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems...

LLVM Lands Support For The Marvell ThunderX3

Phoronix - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 18:35
Announced back in March were the Marvell ThunderX3 Arm server processors with up to 96 cores per SoC and support for 4-way SMT to yield up to 384 threads per socket. These 7nm Arm server processors also support eight channels of DDR4-3200 memory, 64 lanes of PCIe 4.0, and other competitive features for a 2020 server CPU. While we await to see how the ThunderX3 processors perform, the compiler support and other Linux software features are getting all buttoned up...

How to Install Varnish Cache for Apache on CentOS/RHEL 8

Tecmint - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 15:55
Varnish Cache is a free open source, modern and high-performance web application accelerator. It is a fast reverse HTTP proxy that caches content to speed up your web server performance, by storing web content...

Convert documents with Pandoc like a pro

opensource.com - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 15:02

Has anyone ever sent you a document in a format that just isn't quite right for you? Maybe you don't have access to the application used to create the document, or maybe you don't need the document so much as you need what's in it, or maybe you just flat out don't like the format. There's no wrong reason for disliking a file format. If it's not your preferred format, whether you find it cumbersome to use or you just don't like how its metadata is organized, then that's enough of a reason for you to convert it.


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How to find new maintainers for your open source project

opensource.com - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 15:01

If there's one thing you can say about open source software (OSS), it's that it quietly yet inarguably runs our world. Most of the internet is built on open source software, and, these days, millions of developers build and maintain hundreds of thousands of open source packages in more than 250 programming languages. If that's not enough, enterprise companies continue to grow their investments in open source in 2020.


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Open source ERP systems for manufacturing

opensource.com - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 15:00

Today's manufacturing challenges demand integrated systems. As current events in the world unfold, the manufacturing industry is seeing rapidly changing demand, falling capacity to meet demand, and supply bottlenecks that have become difficult to predict and manage. On top of all of this is the global economic downturn, which impacts many manufacturers and suppliers today and for the foreseeable future.


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