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Learn Practical BASH Scripting Projects – Part III

Tecmint - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 14:00
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The earlier articles in the ‘Shell Scripting‘ series received great feedback, so I’m writing this article to keep the learning journey going. Understand Basic Linux

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AMD Releases ROCm 6.0.2 With Improved Stability For Instinct MI300 Series

Phoronix - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 13:00
AMD on Wednesday evening released ROCm 6.0.2 as the newest point release to their open-source compute stack...

Mesa 24.0 Released With Faster Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing & Initial PowerVR Vulkan Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:09
Mesa 24.0 made its very punctual debut today as the Q1'2024 feature update to this set of open-source OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenCL, and video acceleration drivers most notably used by Linux systems. From upstreaming of the Imagination PowerVR Vulkan driver to lots of Intel and AMD Radeon improvements as always, Mesa 24.0 is another great update that benefits most Linux desktop users from basic video acceleration and 3D to the most devoted Intel and AMD Linux gamers...

GNU C Library 2.39 Released With New Tunables, stdbit.h For ISO C2X

Phoronix - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 08:55
In addition to this week's release of GNU Binutils 2.42, ending out January is the release of the GNU C Library 2.39. This C library "libc" update comes with several new features, security fixes, and other enhancements...

ReactOS Making Progress On Its GUI-Based Installer

Phoronix - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 05:54
You may recall from a few months back that the "open-source Windows" project ReactOS was going to be working on improving its GUI setup/installation. Progress is indeed being made there as shared in the latest ReactOS blog entry around further enhancing its GUI installer as an alternative to the text-mode setup...

AMD's Brotli-G 1.0 Released With CPU & GPU Decompression

Phoronix - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 05:31
Back in November 2022 AMD announced Brotli-G for GPU-accelerated Brotli compression. Brotli has proven very worthwhile for compressing web assets and other material while AMD's Brotli-G modifies the bitstream format to be more optimal for handling by GPUs rather than just relying on CPU (de)compression. Today Brotli-G 1.0 was finally released...

Linux Foundation Gets Involved With Lottie To Develop Formal File Format Specification

Phoronix - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 01:28
The newest frontier by the Linux Foundation is getting involved with coming up with a formal file format specification for Lottie, the vector graphics animation format based on JSON...

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