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Experimental Work Allows DXVK To Be Natively Used For Direct3D 11 On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 11/15/2019 - 20:41
The DXVK Direct3D 10/11 over Vulkan implementation to date has been built as a Windows library run under Wine along with the game/software being rendered for converting the calls to Vulkan for execution by the host drivers. There is now experimental work for building DXVK as a native Linux library for converting D3D10/D3D11 calls to Vulkan outside of Wine...

OpenWrt 19.07 RC Offers WPA3 Configuration Support, All Targets On Same Kernel Version

Phoronix - Fri, 11/15/2019 - 20:32
OpenWrt 19.07 is on the way as the next feature release to this router/network focused Linux distribution that remains quite popular with hobbyists...

Picolibc 1.1 Released With POSIX File I/O Support

Phoronix - Fri, 11/15/2019 - 20:21
Longtime X11 developer Keith Packard has spent a lot of time in recent months while being employed by SiFive working on Picolibc as a new C library for embedded systems...

Canonical Finally Discovers "--no-install-recommends" Is Worthwhile For Docker

Phoronix - Fri, 11/15/2019 - 20:15
Debian's APT package manager has supported the --no-install-recommends for years so only the main dependencies are installed and not the "recommended" packages. Seemingly it's taken Canonical until now to figure out how practical that option is for reducing the size of their Docker containers...

Oracle Linux 8 Update 1 Announced With Udica, Optane DCPM Support

Phoronix - Fri, 11/15/2019 - 19:56
Fresh off the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 at the beginning of November, Oracle is now shipping Oracle Linux 8 Update 1 as their spin of RHEL 8.1 with various changes on top -- including their "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel" option...

How to port an awk script to Python

opensource.com - Fri, 11/15/2019 - 16:02

Scripts are potent ways to solve a problem repeatedly, and awk is an excellent language for writing them. It excels at easy text processing in particular, and it can bring you through some complicated rewriting of config files or reformatting file names in a directory. 


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Hiring a technical writer in the age of DevOps

opensource.com - Fri, 11/15/2019 - 16:01

It's common for enterprises to leave the technical writer's role out of the DevOps discussion. Even the marketing department joins the discussion in some DevOps-first organizations—so why not the writers?


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PyRadio: An open source alternative for internet radio

opensource.com - Fri, 11/15/2019 - 16:00

PyRadio is a convenient, open source, command-line application for playing any radio station that has a streaming link. And in 2019, almost every radio station (certainly, every one that has a web presence) has a way to listen online. Using the free PyRadio program, you can add, edit, play and switch between your own selected list of streaming radio stations. It is a command-line tool for Linux that can run on many computers, including Macintosh and tiny computers like Raspberry Pi.


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Top 15 Best Security-Centric Linux Distributions of 2019

Tecmint - Fri, 11/15/2019 - 14:01
Being anonymous on the Internet is not particularly the same as surging the web safely, however, they both involve keeping oneself and one’s data private and away from the prying eyes of entities that...

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