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GNU/Linux Leftovers
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Ziff Davis ☛ Spiceworks Community Digest: Is it time to switch to Linux?
Hi there, Shelby here. As someone who has spent my entire career in tech, I know how helpful it can be to have other tech professionals to connect with, whether it’s to tackle a challenge together or just to chat. The Spiceworks Community is that place where we can connect, share our expertise, get answers, stay up on trends, and (maybe most importantly) have FUN!
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Graphics Stack
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LWN ☛ Almeida: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers work
Daniel Almeida continues
his look at graphics drivers on the Collabora blog.
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Collabora ☛ Writing a Rust GPU kernel driver: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers work
This second post in the Tyr series dives deeper into GPU driver internals by using the Vulkan-based VkCube application to explain how User Mode Drivers (UMDs) and Kernel Mode Drivers (KMDs) work together to execute GPU workloads.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Devices/Embedded
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XDA ☛ I replaced Windows with Linux on a tablet, and I just can't recommend it
We talk a lot about replacing Windows with Linux here at XDA, and it's something I personally advocate for. I've tried a handful of Linux distros over time and prefer them in many ways to Windows 11. However, when this kind of conversation happens, it's almost always in relation to desktop PCs or laptops. There's not much talk about Linux on tablet PCs, which left me curious.
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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Programming/Development
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Buttondown LLC ☛ Software books I wish I could read
I'm writing Logic for Programmers because it's a book I wanted to have ten years ago. I had to learn everything in it the hard way, which is why I'm ensuring that everybody else can learn it the easy way.
Books occupy a sort of weird niche in software. We're great at sharing information via blogs and git repos and entire websites. These have many benefits over books: they're free, they're easily accessible, they can be updated quickly, they can even be interactive. But no blog post has influenced me as profoundly as Data and Reality or Making Software. There is no blog or talk about debugging as good as the Debugging book.
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