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Steam Fixes Up Handling For Games With Vulkan Async Compute

Phoronix - Fri, 09/27/2019 - 02:34
A Steam beta update out today is notable for Linux gamers to avoid possible GPU crashes and corruption of the Steam overlay...

Rust 1.38 Supports Pipelined Compilation For Building Dependent Crates Sooner

Phoronix - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 23:53
Today marks the release of Rust 1.38 as the latest stable update for this increasingly popular, memory-safe programming language...

NVIDIA RTX 2060 / 2070 / 2080 SUPER Linux Gaming Performance - 26 GPUs Benchmarked

Phoronix - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 22:00
We finally have our hands on NVIDIA's current RTX 20 SUPER graphics card line-up and have been putting the RTX 2060/2070/2080 SUPER cards through their paces under Linux. For the first of our long awaited NVIDIA RTX SUPER Linux benchmarks, first up is a look at the Linux gaming performance under a variety of native OpenGL/Vulkan games as well as Steam Play (DXVK+Proton) titles while testing a total of 26 graphics cards this round on the very latest AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce drivers.

Initial Server Setup with CentOS/RHEL 8

Tecmint - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 18:39
In this article, we will walk you through the first basic steps that you need to apply after installing a minimal CentOS/RHEL 8 server with no graphical environment in order to retrieve the information...

VirtIO-FS Sent In For Linux 5.4 With Better Performance Over VirtIO-9P

Phoronix - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 17:38
VirtIO-FS as a better approach for sharing folders/files with guest VMs is set to debut in Linux 5.4...

Purism Shows Off The Librem 5 Linux Smartphone In Action

Phoronix - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 17:05
Now that the first (beta-ish) batch of Librem 5 smartphones is shipping, Purism has published the first video showing the phone in its current state in action...

Parallelizing GCC's Internals Continues To Be Worked On & Showing Promising Potential

Phoronix - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 15:13
One of the most interesting Google Summer of Code projects this year was the student effort to work on better parallelizing GCC's internals to deal with better performance particularly when dealing with very large source files. Fortunately -- given today's desktop CPUs even ramping up their core counts -- this parallel GCC effort is being continued...

3 open source social platforms to consider

opensource.com - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 15:02

It is no mystery why modern social media platforms were designed to be addictive: the more we consult them, the more data they have to fuel them—which enables them to grow smarter and bigger and more powerful.


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How to contribute to GitLab

opensource.com - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 15:01

I think many people are familiar with GitLab—the company or the software. What many may not realize is that GitLab is also an open source community that started with this first commit from our co-founder Dmitriy Zaporozhet in 2011.


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