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Beyond the limits of physical VRAM
49+ min ago (546+ words) Earlier this year, Natalie Vock made a splash with a set of patches to the Linux kernel that greatly increased performance on AMD GPUs with lower amounts of VRAM. With that work now accepted by upstream, Vock decided to turn…...
Pascal for small machines
21+ hour, 35+ min ago (343+ words) We talked about the latest release of Delphi a few days ago, and that brought me to Hans Otten’s website. This site is about my experience with the Wirth school of languages, based on the ideas and implementations of Prof…...
Linux 7.2 released – OSnews
21+ hour, 35+ min ago (99+ words) Version 7.2 of the Linux kernel has been released. Significant features in this release include common attributes support in the bpf()vsystem call, cache-aware load balancing for the CPU scheduler, large-folio support in the Btrfs filesystem, further swap subsystem improvements, improvements…...
Super Mario derivations
21+ hour, 56+ min ago (203+ words) One of the most surprising aspects of the Nix language is that it is lazy, especially if you have never used a lazy language before. This laziness is what makes much of Nixpkgs possible, and its complexity. I decided to…...
Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (267+ words) In the last few days, I built a shoot ’em up game by embedding a tiny custom bytecode VM and rendering the graphics using a fullscreen pixel shader. The result is a 3kB Windows executable. This was done for Langjam Gamejam,…...
Redox gets installer improvements, merges new CPU scheduler
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (362+ words) Another month started almost two weeks ago, so we’ve got a new monthly report from Redox, the general purpose operating system written in Rust. The month of July – it seems the report was published with a bit of a delay,…...
Delphi 13 Community Edition released
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (396+ words) Delphi is still very much a thing, and still very much in active development. The current stewards of Delphi, Embarcadero, released the Delphi 13 Community Edition today. Delphi Community Edition is a full-featured, free edition of Delphi for building native applications…...
GNOME showcases a number of possible GNOME Shell changes
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (711+ words) The GNOME Shell user interface has mostly seen minor refinements and quality of life updates in recent cycles, but on the design side we’ve explored a lot of longer-term things we’d like to do. Some of these we have relatively…...
An ambiguity in c89 which will never be fixed
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (99+ words) I found some ambiguous wording in the c89(/c90) standard, where GCC and Clang disagree on the interpretation. It concerns the behavior of implicit function declarations, which were removed in c99, so this was never disambiguated. ↫ Sebastian at sebsite I am not going…...
NetBSD brings its Englightenment port up to snuff
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (231+ words) Enlightenment desktop is a low on resources desktop environment without sacrificing on visuals. NetBSD support for this BSD-licensed desktop has been left a few years behind. The aim of this project is to port the newest version of the desktop…...