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AMDGPU Linux Kernel Driver Support Posted For The "Dimgrey Cavefish"  Phoronix

AMDGPU Linux Kernel Driver Support Posted For The "Dimgrey Cavefish"  Phoronix

DXVK 1.7.2 was just released as this popular library for mapping Direct3D 9/10/11 atop the Vulkan API primarily for accelerating Windows games on Linux via the likes of Steam Play (Proton) and Wine...

11th Gen COM-HPC modules focus on Functional Safety  LinuxGizmos.com

Complementing yesterday's large GPU compute comparison with the GeForce RTX 3080 across many different workloads, today's article is looking at the Blender 2.90 render performance for this consumer Ampere $699+ graphics card.

Kovair DevOps Achieves Red Hat Linux 8 Certification  PR Web

Ready to move past the tumultuous year that is 2020, Intel's open-source developers responsible for the OpenVINO toolkit today issued version 2021.1 with some big ticket additions...

Joe Fernandes: Red Hat OpenShift Succeeds with Open Source and Linux  SDxCentral

Last month marked the release of the 455.23.04 beta driver for NVIDIA Linux users in providing support for the GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 graphics cards. The NVIDIA 455.28 Linux driver is out today as their first official 455 series release and also stable RTX 3080/3090 Ampere support...

NVIDIA 455.28 Released As Stable Linux Driver For RTX 3080/3090  Phoronix

Installations of softwares - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

How to install Microsoft Powershell on a Chromebook  Windows Central

Soul's discounted true wireless earbuds are affordable AirPods competitors  Windows Central

The virtual OpenZFS Developer Summit got underway on Tuesday with many interesting talks on the open-source work around the ZFS file-system...

How to Install a Tar.gz File on Ubuntu Linux  ITPro Today

Lately, I've been checking out pages on the nascent Gemini protocol, a new application-level protocol for hypertext documents. It falls somewhere between the minimalism of Gopher and the complexity and weight of the World Wide Web.

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In the world of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and service-based architectures, it's not uncommon for companies to maintain dozens or even hundreds of APIs, often spanning multiple teams, programming languages, and environments. This variability makes it extremely difficult to see what's happening at a high level to prevent changes from having negative impacts.

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A New Linux Kernel Framework To Help Ensure You Don't Burn Yourself On Hot Devices  Phoronix

Linaro is working on the DTPF framework for the Linux kernel for meeting legal requirements around the maximum allowed case/contact temperature of devices...

A while ago, I published my wildly popular1 article How not to make a cup of tea. Casting around for something to write here, it occurred to me that I might write about something that I believe is almost as important as world peace, the forward march of progress, and brotherly/sisterly love: open source projects.

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