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Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler 2020-06 Released With New Features

Phoronix - Thu, 06/25/2020 - 18:54
While Intel has been providing daily snapshots of the oneAPI Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) open-source compiler, today marks the latest monthly feature compiler release to their cross-architecture language for direct programming that is based on C++ while leveraging SYCL, LLVM/Clang, and other open-source technologies for exploiting the potential of hardware from CPUs to GPUs and FPGAs...

Two Areas KDE Can Use Help Right Now In Porting For Plasma 6.0

Phoronix - Thu, 06/25/2020 - 18:43
Longtime KDE developer David Edmundson has issued a call for help in porting work for Plasma 6.0...

Intel Squaring Away "Hours of Battery Life" Feature For New Notebooks On Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 06/25/2020 - 16:15
Intel's open-source Linux developers have got the Tiger Lake and Gen12 graphics support largely squared away at this point, but a few remaining features remain. One of the features new to Tigerlake/Gen12+ on the graphics side is HOBL, or "Hours of Battery Life", while the Linux support there is still being tidied up...

5 modern alternatives to essential Linux command-line tools

opensource.com - Thu, 06/25/2020 - 15:03

In our daily use of Linux/Unix systems, we use many command-line tools to complete our work and to understand and manage our systems—tools like du to monitor disk utilization and top to show system resources. Some of these tools have existed for a long time. For example, top was first released in 1984, while du's first release dates to 1971.

Over the years, these tools have been modernized and ported to different systems, but, in general, they still follow their original idea, look, and feel.


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Make Bash history more useful with these tips

opensource.com - Thu, 06/25/2020 - 15:02

A Linux terminal running Bash has a built-in history that you can use to track what you've been doing lately. To view a history of your Bash session, use the built-in command history:


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Sway 1.5-RC1 Wayland Compositor Brings VRR / Adaptive-Sync, New Protocol Support

Phoronix - Thu, 06/25/2020 - 12:07
The first release candidate of the Sway 1.5 Wayland compositor is now available for testing that continues to be inspired by the i3 design while being at the forefront of Wayland capabilities...

Red Hat, IBM and SAP: Collaborating on bridging the intelligent enterprise with a cloud-native future

Red Hat News - Thu, 06/25/2020 - 12:00

At Red Hat, we believe that the open hybrid cloud is the future. Realizing the opportunity it offers rests on balancing data strategies, business models, and using the latest innovation. We find that as companies continue to rapidly evolve business models and re-architect processes to better support clients, suppliers and the workforce, many are realizing that public cloud offerings cannot fully meet their changing needs.

Mesa 20.1.2 Release Led By Radeon Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 06/25/2020 - 07:35
While Mesa 20.2 is the exciting development version in the works for release next quarter, those of you on the current Mesa 20.1 series now have the second point release available...

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