Open-source News

Blumenkrantz Continues On Big Mesa Code Refactoring

Phoronix - Thu, 08/01/2024 - 18:24
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has recently begun pushing changes to the Mesa 3D graphics code-base as part of "The Juiciest Refactor Ever". After merging the first of the patches last week, this week has brought more code for this juicy refactoring...

Serpent OS Publishes First Pre-Alpha Operating System Image

Phoronix - Thu, 08/01/2024 - 17:57
For those intrigued by Ikey Doherty's work in recent times on Serpent OS as a new from-scratch Linux distribution that makes use of lots of tooling, Ikey is kicking off August by releasing the first pre-alpha image of this Linux OS...

How to Minify CSS and JS Files Using Linux Command Line

Tecmint - Thu, 08/01/2024 - 13:15
The post How to Minify CSS and JS Files Using Linux Command Line first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

To minify CSS and JavaScript (JS) files using the Linux command line, you can utilize two popular tools: UglifyJS for

The post How to Minify CSS and JS Files Using Linux Command Line first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Testing The AMD Heterogeneous Core Topology Linux Patches On Ryzen AI 300 Series

Phoronix - Thu, 08/01/2024 - 03:15
Now that I am through with my testing of the initial Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365 Linux performance benchmarking and support exploration, I've begun diving in to other areas of the Linux support/performance for these Zen 5 "Strix Point" SoCs. The area for a quick look today is with the yet-to-be-merged AMD Heterogeneous Core Topology patches...

ARM Linux Maintainer Drafts Deprecation Timeline For Old Boards/Features

Phoronix - Thu, 08/01/2024 - 02:07
ARM Linux maintainer Arnd Bergmann laid out a proposal with deprecation timeline today for beginning to work toward removing many older ARM boards and obsolete features...

Mesa 24.2-rc3 Released With More Intel Xe2 Graphics Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 08/01/2024 - 01:35
Mesa 24.2 is barreling towards its stable release in August while out today is the third weekly release candidate for this set of open-source OpenGL, Vulkan, and video acceleration drivers...

Pages