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today's howtos
- How to Fix the Sound in Kali Linux
- -d in go get
- Using ZRAM as swap on Fedora
- OpenSUSE & already mounted or mount point busy error
- How To Install and Use Docker Compose on CentOS 7
- Dump man page as clean text
- Fedora 28 : Fix XFS internal error XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_GOTO .
- How to Install GRUB on Arch Linux with UEFI BIOS
Facebook: hekerji odnesli osebne podatke 14 milijonov uporabnikov
Graphics: NVIDIA's New Vulkan Driver and Intel's Vulkan Driver Is Working On A NIR Cache
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NVIDIA 396.54.09 Vulkan Driver Released With Transform Feedback, Intel ANV Gets TF Too
Today is certainly a very exciting day in the Vulkan space.
Following the release of Vulkan 1.1.88 that brings initial support for the much anticipated transform feedback support, to help projects like DXVK and VKD3D for mapping Direct3D (or even OpenGL) atop Vulkan, there has been a slew of driver updates.
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anv: Add a NIR cache
This patch series adds a simple NIR shader cache that sits right after spirv_to_nir and brw_preprocess_nir and before linking. This should help alleviate some of the added overhead of link-time optimization since most of the NIR-level optimization is now cached prior to linking.
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Intel's Vulkan Driver Is Working On A NIR Cache
As a possible performance win, Jason Ekstrand as the lead developer of the Intel ANV open-source Vulkan driver has been developing a NIR cache.
Release of DXVK 0.90 and Vulkan API News
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Hot on the heels of the latest release of the Vulkan API, DXVK 0.90 is now out with Stream Output support
DXVK [GitHub], the awesome Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 implementation that's used in Wine and Steam Play's Proton has just put out version 0.90 after the latest release of the Vulkan API.
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DXVK 0.90 Released With Stream Output, Several Game Fixes
Hot off merging transform feedback into DXVK for supporting Direct3D 11 Stream Output, Philip Rebohle released DXVK 0.90.
The main addition with DXVK 0.90 is the support for Stream Output via Vulkan Transform Feedback -- of course, you'll need the updated/patched Vulkan drivers. At this stage this Stream Output support helps games running on Unity Engine, The Witcher 3 (especially with NVIDIA Hairworks support), Final Fantasy XV, Quake Champions, Overwatch, and other games with different rendering issues or missing elements.
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DXVK Already Lands Vulkan Transform Feedback Support, RADV Posts Patches
With the newly-announced Vulkan 1.1.88 that brings VK_EXT_transform_feedback, the DXVK Direct3D-on-Vulkan layer has already implemented the transform feedback support.
DXVK developer Philip Rebohle working under contract for Valve has already merged his transform feedback implementation into the mainline code-base. He didn't magically write all of the necessary code for Direct3D 11 stream outputs mapped to Vulkan and the like today, but had written it in advance -- presumably thanks to Valve's involvement with the Vulkan working group. This is good news as working out the DXVK transform feedback support prior to firming up the VK_EXT_transform_feedback extension ensured that this new extension would work out for DXVK's needs.
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Vulkan 1.1.88 Released With Transform Feedback As A Big Win For VKD3D / DXVK
Vulkan 1.1.88 is out this morning and it's an exciting Vulkan update. Say hello to Vulkan transform feedback!
LibreOffice Lands More Qt5 Integration Improvements, LXQt Support
Recently there's been more improvements for LibreOffice with its Qt5 integration to allow this open-source office suite to jive better with Qt5-based desktops like KDE Plasma and now LXQt.
On and off throughout the year we have seen a lot of improvements to the Qt5/KDE5 interface plug-in with LibreOffice. In the update shared earlier this month was initial accessibility support as well as Qt5 clipboard support. Since then, more code has been merged.
Android Leftovers
- Sony starts rolling out Android Pie updates with the Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact
- New leak suggests Huawei's Mate 20 Pro could be the most exciting Android of the year
- 15 new and notable Android apps from the last week including Dig, Adaptive Brightness Tile, and DIY projects (10/6/18 ...
- Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL could soon lag behind their Android rivals for this vital reason
- This week's top stories: Pixel event roundup, Xiaomi's new Android TV box, Google+ dies, more
Compact, mainline Linux ready “La Frite” SBC starts at $10
Now on Kickstarter: Libre Computer’s smaller “La Frite” version of its Le Potato SBC offers a quad -A53, HD-only Amlogic S805X, a Raspberry Pi A+ footprint and GPIO connector, and mainline Linux support.
Libre Computer has gone to Kickstarter to successfully launch a smaller, less powerful follow-up to its Le Potato SBC. The 64 x 55mm La Frite is said to be loosely based on the 65 x 56mm Raspberry Pi Model A+. Unlike the very RPi 3 like Le Potato, which is now available publicly under the name Libre Computer Board (AML-S905X-CC), La Frite (AKA AML-S805X-AC) has a different layout and more real-world ports than the A+, although it offers a similar 40-pin expansion header.
A pile of weekend stable kernel updates
Today in Techrights
- EPO Insider/Märpel Says President Campinos Already Acts Like Battistelli
- Quality of Patents Granted by the EPO is Still Low and Nobody Will Benefit Except Lawyers, Jubilant Over Growing Lenience on Software Patents
- 100 Days Into the Term of Campinos There is Already an EPO Suicide
- Links 13/10/2018: Ubuntu Touch OTA-5, MidnightBSD 1.0 Ready
- Links 11/10/2018: PostgreSQL 11 RC1 Released, Librem 5 Loves GNOME 3.32
DXVK 0.90 Released With Stream Output, Several Game Fixes
NVIDIA 396.54.09 Vulkan Driver Released With Transform Feedback, Intel ANV Gets TF Too
GCC9 Lands Initial C++ Networking TS Implementation
DXVK Already Lands Vulkan Transform Feedback Support, RADV Posts Patches
Plasma and KDE neon Team in Catalunya, KF5 Static Builds
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Plasma and KDE neon Team Visit Deployments in Catalunya
Last week developers from the KDE neon and Plasma teams visited Barcelona. We were there to meet with some KDE software projects we had heard about in the Catalan government and schools. Aleix Pol lives locally and works on Plasma and Discover. He invited Plasma release manager and KDE neon developer Jonathan Riddell, KDE neon continuous integration master Harald Sitter, and hardware enablement guru Rohan Garg to meet the teams evaluating our software and supporting our users.
We first met Pablo who runs the Linkat project for the Catalan government. Linkat is a Linux distribution they offer to schools, and it currently runs lightweight, simple desktop environments. As Plasma 5 now tends to use as little or less memory and resources than many lightweight Linux desktops, the Linkat team is interested in trying it. We met with the officials from the education department and discussed accessibility needs, looking at Mycroft for voice control and integrating with phones using KDE Connect.
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KF5 Static Builds
Static linking has long gone out of fashion, at least on the average Linux desktop distribution. There are however good reasons to still (or again) support this for our frameworks. One is the rise of application bundles (Flatpak, Android APK, AppImage, etc).
Bundles often only contain a single executable, so there is no benefit of sharing a library (at least in most bundle formats, Flatpak is a bit different there). Still we need to ship everything the shared libraries provide, no matter if we need it or not.
Static linking is of course not the magic solution to this, but it’s a fairly generic way of allowing the compiler to drop unused code, reducing the application size. As application bundles are usually updated as a whole, we also don’t benefit from the ability to update shared libraries independently, unlike with a conventional distribution.
Besides application bundles, there are also single process embedded applications that can benefit from static linking, so this is relevant for the effort of bringing KF5 to Yocto. In particular on lower powered embedded devices the startup overhead of dynamic linking can be noticeable.
Vulkan 1.1.88 Released With Transform Feedback As A Big Win For VKD3D / DXVK
GNU/Linux Review: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS
Xubuntu 18.04 LTS is an official flavor of Ubuntu Bionic Beaver which uses XFCE Desktop Environment. In this release, it's still as lightweight as before (~350MB of RAM at idle time), with user-friendliness you can expect as always. Yes, it still supports 32-bit so you don't have to buy new computer to upgrade or install it; for the next 3 years. It supports Snappy out of the box with GNOME Software integration. It brings Firefox 59, LibreOffice 6.0, and XFCE 4.12 for us, in only 1.3GB sized ISO image file. And yeah, in this review, I show you that Compiz works here with 3D Cube and stuffs we really missed from our old Ubuntu era.
LibreOffice Lands More Qt5 Integration Improvements, LXQt Support
Zulip – Most Productive Chat Application for Group or Team Chat
Zulip is an open source, powerful and easily extendable group or team chat application powered by Electron and React Native. It runs on every major operating system: Linux, Windows, MacOS; Android, iOS, and also has a web client.
It supports over 90 native integrations with external applications, under different categories including interactive bots, version control (Github, Codebase, Bitbucket etc.), communication, customer support, deployment, financial (Stripe), marketing, monitoring tools (Nagios and more), integration frameworks, productivity (Drop box, Google calender etc.) and so many others.
today's leftovers
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[Older] Cockpit 180
Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from version 180.
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Destination Linux EP91 – CoC A Doodle Do
On this special episode of Destination Linux, we are joined by a friend of the show, Liam from GamingonLinux.com to discuss the hottest topics in Linux Gaming! We also cover some interesting discussion topics about Security, Linus’s response to the community reactions, big mistakes we’ve made as Linux users, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s new project Solid. Then we’ll end the show with our Tips, Tricks and Software Spotlight picks. All that and much more!
- Impressions From The Road: Linux Foundation And Its Role In Network Transformation
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Kiwi TCMS team updates
I am happy to announce that our team is steadily growing! As we work through our roadmap, status update here, and on-board new team members I start to feel the need for a bit more structure and organization behind the scenes. I also wish for consistent contributions to the project (commit early, commit often) so I can better estimate the resources that we have!
I am also actively discussing Kiwi TCMS with lots of people at various conferences and generate many ideas for the future. The latest SEETEST in Belgrade was particularly fruitful. Some of these ideas are pulling into different directions and I need help to keep them under control!
- How to disable IPv6 through GRUB in Linux
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The future of AlternateTab, and why you need not worry
Any time someone publishes a “The top n GNOME Shell extensions” article, there’s a fair chance that it will include the AlternateTab extension.
That is a bit sad to be honest. Not because it would be wrong for users to prefer a more traditional switcher, mind you, but because the actual functionality has been built-in for years — all the extension does is intercept one keyboard shortcut and pretend that it was a different keyboard shortcut.
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GDA 6.0 progress
GDA project has released 5.2.5 and tagged 5.2.6, with some improvements, but the real work is on master.
Master is targeting 6.0, a new ABI/API release, providing better GObject Introspection support and code modernization.
A new Meson build system is on the way to replace Autotools. Meson helped to implement, fix and test all changes in less time. Like on multi-threading, where is more easy to produce multiple parallel tests, helping to expose issues to fix. Master have big improvement on that matter.
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MakuluLinux LinDoz New Build is Live
The Latest ISO of Makulu Lindoz is now available for download, This build mainly addresses issues some users had with installing Lindoz onto a Virtual machine. Previously we had Squashfs problems when booting live mode on Virtual machines, this bug has now been fixed.
- How Network Slicing, Microservices & Open Source Technologies Will Make 5G Services Profitable
- Red Hat Inc. (RHT) Rises 4.37% for October 12
- FPgM report: 2018-41
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binb 0.0.3: Now with Monash
The third release of the binb package just arrived on CRAN, and it comes with a new (and very crispy) theme: Monash. With that we are also thrilled to welcome Rob Hyndman as a co-author.
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Google Summer of code at Debian Final Report
Virtual LTSP server project automates installation and configuration of LTSP server with vagrant. It is the easiest way to create LTSP setup. We have developed the project to do the same for Linux mint 19 and Debian 9. We also created several scripts for testing, create ltsp client, manage accounts, etc. Also created packer scripts to create vagrant boxes that we will use in the project.
