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Linux Mint 21.2 Promoted To Beta With Desktop Improvements, HEIF & AVIF Support

Phoronix - Wed, 06/21/2023 - 22:28
Linux Mint as the popular desktop Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu LTS releases and known for their Cinnamon desktop is out today with their 21.2 "Victoria" beta release for testing...

Red Hat Now Limiting RHEL Sources To CentOS Stream

Phoronix - Wed, 06/21/2023 - 21:41
Red Hat announced today that CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases...

Intel Continues Working On IAA Crypto Compression Driver For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 06/21/2023 - 18:32
Introduced with 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors are various new accelerators available on select SKUs or via the Intel On Demand offering. One of the initial challenges there though is the early accelerator software support limitations and many upstream open-source (or even just widespread) software not yet enabled to make use of these new accelerators. One of the improvements on that front has been Intel engineers working on an IAA crypto compression driver for the kernel so that the In-Memory Analytics Accelerator can be transparently accessible to kernel features making use of the crypto API...

GCC Adopts A Code of Conduct

Phoronix - Wed, 06/21/2023 - 18:06
While a few years late compared to many other open-source projects adopting a Code of Conduct, the GCC Steering Committee has now adopted a Code of Conduct "CoC" for this open-source compiler project...

Valve Still Making RADV Driver Improvements To AMD GCN 1.0 Era Hardware

Phoronix - Wed, 06/21/2023 - 17:37
On a quest toward trying to get the game Halo Infinite running under Linux via Steam Play (Proton) with AMD GFX6 / GCN 1.0 era graphics processors, Valve's prolific open-source driver contributor Samuel Pitoiset has added VK_NV_device_generated_commands support for these original Radeon GCN GPUs...

LLVM Clang 17 Now Defaulting To OpenMP 5.1

Phoronix - Wed, 06/21/2023 - 17:28
The LLVM Clang 17 C/C++ compiler when shipping later this year will now use OpenMP 5.1 as the default version of this multi-processing programming API...

Top 4 Google Docs Alternatives for Linux in 2023

Tecmint - Wed, 06/21/2023 - 12:33
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Google Docs is probably one of the most widely used office suites in the world. Its set of editing tools and high usability make life

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