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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] TimeNaan 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] sxt 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Their logos are always great. Took a class on Vulcan in college and managed to snag one of these .

Should probably wear it more often but it was probably too big for me even at the time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Oversized is trending now haha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I actually have a shirt with it, it slays so fucking hard it's insane

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Vulkan 1.3.286 was released today with a handful of corrections/clarifications as well as one new extension.

Besides all the routine fixes to the specification, Vulkan 1.3.286 does present one new addition: VK_EXT_shader_replicated_composites.

The VK_EXT_shader_replicated_composites extension allows for creating composites from a single value in SPIR-V modules.

The SPV_EXT_replicated_composites SPIR-V extension that was introduced this week explains: "This extension adds instructions to create composite objects whose constituents all have the same value without requiring the value to be provided for each constituent."

Overall the Vulkan 1.3.286 update is rather light, more details on it via GitHub.

Separately, NVIDIA today posted their 550.40.63 Linux Vulkan driver beta that adds EXT_legacy_vertex_attributes and GOOGLE_user_type support along with image load/store support for VK_FORMAT_D16_UNORM and VK_FORMAT_D32_SFLOAT formats.


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