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Inkscape 1.3.1 Released as ‘Biggest Bug Fix’ Update Ever  OMG! Ubuntu!

Using whereis, whatis, and which to find out about commands on Linux  Network World

10 of the best ways to get help on Linux  Network World

10 of the best ways to get help on Linux  Network World

Inkscape 1.3.1 Released with More Than 70 Bug Fixes and Two New Features  9to5Linux

The Inkscape open-source graphics editor application that is popular among Linux users and has evolved into a viable alternative to the likes of Adobe Illustrator is celebrating its 20th anniversary...

Inkscape Celebrates 20 Years With New Release  Phoronix

The LLVM project is now employing profile-guided optimizations (PGO) when building their x86_64 Microsoft Windows release packages. Making use of PGO is able to make their Clang build a stunning 22% faster...

LLVM Now Using PGO For Building x86_64 Windows Release ...  Phoronix

In addition to the many OpenGL and Vulkan open-source driver improvements building up for Mesa 24.0, the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver has also been preparing some video acceleration improvements for this next quarterly release...

RadeonSI Gallium3D Enables VCN Encoder Intra-Refresh Support  Phoronix

How Kali Linux Can Help Security Test Your Network  The New Stack

Michal Jires of SUSE posted a new set of patches on Friday for implementing Incremental LTO support for the GNU Compiler Collection. The goal here with Incremental LTO is for reducing compile times while doing quick edit-compile cycles while employing Link-Time Optimizations...

GCC Patches Posted For Implementing Incremental LTO  Phoronix

The FFmpeg multimedia library has been making progress with its Vulkan Video API support while this week an interesting change was merged for ffplay, FFmpeg's built-in simple multimedia player. The ffplay player now has a built-in Vulkan renderer provided by libplacebo as an optional means of hardware acceleration...

FFmpeg's ffplay Media Player Adds Vulkan Renderer  Phoronix

Following last week's KDE Plasma 6.0 Alpha release with more enthusiasts beginning to test out the next-generation KDE desktop stack, there's been a spike in bug reports. KDE developers are on it working to address these bugs ahead of the Plasma 6.0 stable release at the end of February...

KDE Addressing A Spike In Bug Reports Following The Plasma 6 ...  Phoronix

The Best Docker Alternatives for 2023  TechRepublic

A few days ago the Wine Wayland driver merged HiDPI support improvements and now for ending out the week is yet more work to land for Wine's Wayland driver: the first bits of Vulkan enablement...