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Zstd 1.5.1 Released With Even More Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 12/21/2021 - 16:00
Zstandard 1.5.1 is now available as the latest release of this widely-used data compression algorithm backed by Facebook that delivers on great performance. With the new release, performance is even better...

Open source desktop publishing with Scribus

opensource.com - Tue, 12/21/2021 - 16:00

One of my favorite shelves at my local comic book store is the zine rack. Filled with self-published booklets that are too niche, too quirky, or just too individual for any company to spend money on producing, zines are produced by one or two people who have something to say and want to express themselves through text and graphics. Zines are usually created by cutting out blocks of text and graphics and literally pasting them to a master page.


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30 Useful Linux Commands for System Administrators

Tecmint - Tue, 12/21/2021 - 14:20
The post 30 Useful Linux Commands for System Administrators first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this article we are going to review some of the useful and frequently used Linux or Unix commands for Linux System Administrators that are used in their daily life. This is not complete

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Mold 1.0 Released As A Modern High-Speed Linker Alternative To GNU Gold, LLVM LLD

Phoronix - Tue, 12/21/2021 - 13:00
Mold 1.0 is a production-ready, high-speed linker alternative to GNU's Gold or LLVM's LLD that currently is supported on Linux systems and written by the original LLD author...

LLVM's HIPSPV Coming Together For AMD HIP To SPIR-V For OpenCL Execution

Phoronix - Tue, 12/21/2021 - 04:45
Last week I wrote about the interesting HIPSPV back-end for LLVM to take AMD HIP code -- which generally starts off as NVIDIA CUDA code to begin with before the HIP-ification -- and to be able to output that from the LLVM compiler stack as the SPIR-V intermediate representation used across OpenCL and Vulkan drivers. The goal with this is to be able to take AMD HIP code and ultimately be able to run it on Intel graphics processors but potentially other vendors/drivers too given the vendor-neutral SPIR-V. More of that HIPSPV work is now hitting mainline LLVM...

Systemd 250 Piles On Yet More Features With New Release Candidate

Phoronix - Tue, 12/21/2021 - 04:00
It was just over one week ago the systemd 250 release candidate was issued (along with a brown paper bag 250-rc2 fix-up release). Systemd 250 has a ton of changes for this init system and more while today systemd 250-rc3 was released with yet more changes in tow...

WXRD Is A New Wayland Compositor Focused On XR/VR Use-Cases

Phoronix - Tue, 12/21/2021 - 02:35
For the Valve-funded Xrdesktop has allowed GNOME and KDE desktops to be VR-aware, Collabora has been developing WXRD as a standalone Wayland compositor for XR/VR use-cases...

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