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opensource.com - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 16:00

For some, the holidays are a hectic time of shopping, cooking, and a house overflowing with loved ones. For others, they’re quiet times spent with just a few friends, or even in solitude behind the warm glow of a computer monitor. And for still others, it’s a workday like any other.

No matter how you end up spending the holiday season this year, there’s comfort to be found in the Linux App Summit of 2019. This summit, which combined the strengths of everyone involved in developing applications for Linux, focused on a few major topics:


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How to Install PuTTY on Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 13:30
PuTTY is a free and open-source cross-platform SSH and telnet client that even after being around for over 20 years remains one of the most popular SSH clients being used especially on the Windows...

Intel's MKL-DNN/DNNL 2.0 Beta 3 Release Adds SYCL + Data Parallel C++ Compiler

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 13:09
Intel's MKL-DNN Deep Neural Network Library (DNNL) that is open-source and catering to deep learning applications like Tensorflow, PyTorch, DeepLearning4J, and others is nearing its version 2.0 release. With DNNL 2.0 is now support for Data Parallel C++ as Intel's new language as part of their oneAPI initiative...

Radeon Linux 5.6 Changes Begin Queuing - Better Power Management, Adds DMCUB Controller

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 08:06
While the Linux 5.5 merge window has just been over for less than one week, AMD has already submitted their first batch of feature updates to DRM-Next of new graphics driver material aiming for Linux 5.6 early next year...

GNOME Shell 3.35.2 Begins Launching Spawned Processes Within Systemd Scopes

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 04:36
Out today is a new development release of GNOME Shell on the road to GNOME 3.36 in March...

Intel's OpenSWR OpenGL Software Rasterizer Pulls In Tessellator From Microsoft Direct3D Code

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 02:49
Intel's OpenSWR software rasterizer for OpenGL as an alternative to the likes of LLVMpipe could soon have OpenGL 4.0 and is a step closer to that code thanks to... Microsoft code...

NVIDIA 440.44 Linux Driver Brings Fixes, __GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE Honored With Vulkan

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 02:03
Out today is NVIDIA 440.44 as the latest stable Linux driver update in their new long-lived driver series...

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