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GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 18:39
A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment...

Intel APX Code Begins Landing Within The GCC Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 18:27
In addition to Intel's compiler engineers pushing a lot of code into GCC -- and other open-source compiler components -- around AVX10, over the weekend code began hitting the GCC 14 Git codebase for the Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) functionality...

Hangover 8.17 Released With Updated Box64 & FEX Integration

Phoronix - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 18:17
Hangover 8.17 was released this weekend as the newest feature release for this open-source Wine-based software that aims to make it easy to run Windows x86/x64 binaries on 64-bit Arm Linux systems as well as potentially other architectures too like RISC-V and POWER...

Libva 2.20 Released For Video Acceleration API

Phoronix - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 18:03
Libva 2.20 was released today as the newest update to this common Video Acceleration API (VA-API) library that sits in front of the various hardware-specific VA-API driver implementations...

10 Tools to Monitor Linux Disk Partitions and Usage in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 13:20
The post 10 Tools to Monitor Linux Disk Partitions and Usage in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this article, we will review a number of Linux command line utilities that you can use to check disk partitions in Linux. Monitoring the

The post 10 Tools to Monitor Linux Disk Partitions and Usage in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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