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Twitter's New "X" Logo Is Reminding Plenty Of People Around X.Org

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 18:18
The most popular topic among the emails I received this weekend weren't of direct technical nature but the number of people pointing out Twitter's new "X" logo and the similarities to the X.Org logo...

Inkscape 1.3 Released As Latest Open-Source Software To Compete With Adobe Illustrator

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 12:00
Inkscape 1.3 is now available as the newest feature release ot this open-source software focused on being a vector graphics editor that can rival the likes of Adobe Illustrator...

10 Best File Comparison and Difference (Diff) Tools for Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 11:31
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While writing program files or normal text files, programmers and writers sometimes want to know the difference between two files or two versions of the

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Linux 6.5-rc3 Released - Looking "Pretty Normal"

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 06:51
Linus Torvalds just published Linux 6.5-rc3 as the newest weekly test release of the forthcoming Linux 6.5 kernel...

OpenBSD Finally Lands Support For Updating AMD CPU Microcode

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 05:06
Within the very latest OpenBSD "current" code is now support for being able to apply AMD CPU microcode updates...

MPV Player 0.36 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling, Vulkan Video Decode

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 01:30
MPV 0.36 is out today as the newest version of this open-source media player that was originally forked from the MPlayer/mplayer2 code and leveraging the FFmpeg library...

RISC-V Is Now An Official Debian Architecture

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 00:34
Debian 13 "Trixie" has been aiming for official RISC-V support and indeed it will happen: RISC-V has now been promoted to an official Debian CPU architecture...

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