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Mesa 20.0's LLVMpipe Now Supports Running OpenCL On The CPU

Phoronix - Fri, 12/27/2019 - 20:35
Mesa's LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver has long been about running OpenGL on GPUs as a software fallback / debug path but as of this morning in Mesa 20.0-devel there is now the experimental ability of having OpenCL support making use of OpenCL "Clover" with NIR for CPU-based execution...

GNU Maintainers Seeking Greater Transparency, Clear Procedures From The FSF

Phoronix - Fri, 12/27/2019 - 20:27
Following Richard Stallman being ousted from the Free Software Foundation, the FSF was said to be re-evaluating its relationship with the GNU while R.M.S. said no radical changes are expected. Now a group of GNU maintainers have laid out some of their desires for improving the interactions between the GNU and FSF...

DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Intel Graphics Driver From Linux 4.8.17

Phoronix - Fri, 12/27/2019 - 20:18
The Linux 4.8 series is over three years old while now the DragonFlyBSD crew has pulled in the Linux 4.8.17 sources of the Intel "i915" DRM driver into their kernel for providing updated graphics driver coverage...

Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 20 Released To Ring In The New Year, Free Of 32-Bit Support

Phoronix - Fri, 12/27/2019 - 20:06
One of the few still maintained Linux distributions derived from Gentoo is Calculate Linux, which saw a new release today in preparing for the new year...

Debian's Excitement In The 2010s From Big Releases To Systemd Usage To Powering SteamOS

Phoronix - Fri, 12/27/2019 - 19:40
As we enter 2020, Debian remains one of the oldest Linux distributions out there and over the 2010s continued advancing quite well for being volunteer-led and competing with the corporate heavyweights like Ubuntu, Red Hat, and SUSE. Debian in the 2010s found itself being used as the basis for Valve's SteamOS, continuing to be integral to the success of Ubuntu, it ultimately decided to make use of systemd, there were various desktop changes, and multiple successful releases of Debian GNU/Linux to celebrate...

Top CI/CD resources to set you up for success

opensource.com - Fri, 12/27/2019 - 16:03

This has been a fantastic year for continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) and the world of DevOps. Opensource.com authors shared how they're moving toward agile and scrum as they focus on seamless, flexible, and scalable deployments. Here are some of the big themes in the CI/CD articles we published this year.


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The importance of consistency in your Python code

opensource.com - Fri, 12/27/2019 - 16:02

The principle of least surprise is a guideline when designing user interfaces. It says that when the user performs an action, the program should do whatever would surprise the user the least. This is for the same reason kids love reading the same book over and over again: there is nothing more comforting to people than the ability to predict and have those predictions come true.


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10 resources to boost your Git skills

opensource.com - Fri, 12/27/2019 - 16:00

As we near the end of 2019, it is time to look back at the top 10 articles we published about Git this year.


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How to Install Yarn on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Fri, 12/27/2019 - 13:39
Created by Facebook, Yarn is the coolest and latest package manager for NodeJS which has come to replace npm. While npm works just okay, Yarn ships with some improvements that give it a competitive...

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