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OpenChrome DRM Driver For Open-Source VIA Continues To See Some Activity In 2022

Phoronix - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 17:55
If you are still using a motherboard with a VIA x86 chipset, it's really long past due to consider upgrading to a newer platform, but if that is not feasible the UniChrome IGP graphics support continues to still be worked on occasionally for Linux in 2022. The OpenChrome driver project remains in a sad state and out-of-tree, but is continuing to see fixes and re-based against newer versions of the Linux kernel...

GCC 12 Adds Support For AArch64 Shadow Call Stack

Phoronix - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 17:42
Squeezing into the GCC 12 compiler release is support for the Shadow Call Stack functionality on 64-bit Arm (AArch64)...

How to make KDE look like GNOME on Linux

opensource.com - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 16:01

GNOME has a tendency for minimalist design. It's a beautiful desktop experience, and holds the honor of being the first free desktop that's ever elicited vocalized admiration from someone looking over my shoulder as I use Linux. Then again (and pardon the armchair philosophizing), you can't have minimalism without complexity, and KDE is well known for being very customizable.


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4 levels of DevOps documentation maturity

opensource.com - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 16:00

DevOps and DevSecOps require agile documentation practices to deliver quality documentation on time with an iterative software delivery cycle. It's a similar journey to DevOps with a move to automation and a more agile approach to content. If documentation is only now entering your organization's DevOps discussions, it's time to catch your documentation practices up to DevOps.

Here are the four levels of DevOps documentation maturity:


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10 Useful Tools to Create Bootable USB from an ISO Image

Tecmint - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 15:21
The post 10 Useful Tools to Create Bootable USB from an ISO Image first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

CD and DVD writers are a thing of the past. You are not likely to find them in modern-day laptops. If your goal is to create a bootable medium, then creating a bootable USB

The post 10 Useful Tools to Create Bootable USB from an ISO Image first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Getting to know Albert Chai, general manager for Red Hat RoSEA

Red Hat News - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 13:00

We’re delighted to welcome Albert Chai to Red Hat as a general manager for Red Hat’s Rest of Southeast Asia (RoSEA) region. In his new role, Albert will be responsible for Red Hat’s business operations in a dynamic region with accelerated growth.

FBDEV Console Patches Optimize Performance - Print Directory Listing ~25% Faster

Phoronix - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 04:16
With there being some renewed development interest around FBDEV with the kernel subsystem now having a maintainer, restoring hardware-accelerated scrolling, and other patches pending to clean-up and optimize the frame-buffer device code, there is also a new performance optimization series...

Chris Lattner Formally Steps Down From Swift's Core Team

Phoronix - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 02:41
LLVM project founder Chris Lattner who began developing the Swift programming language back in 2010 during his time at Apple is now leaving that programming language's core team...

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