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How to Install XFCE Desktop in Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Tecmint - Tue, 08/30/2022 - 12:52
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Xfce is a popular lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It is designed to be fast and light on the utilization of system resources such as memory and CPU. In doing so, Xfce

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AMD Announces Ryzen 7000 Series "Zen 4" Desktop CPUs - Linux Benchmarks To Come

Phoronix - Tue, 08/30/2022 - 07:30
AMD CEO Lisa Su today formally introduced their Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors built atop their Zen 4 architecture.

UEFI 2.10 + ACPI 6.5 Specifications Released With Updates For CXL, LoongArch, RISC-V

Phoronix - Tue, 08/30/2022 - 00:19
The UEFI Forum has published the UEFI 2.10 and ACPI 6.5 specifications to make these standards more adaptable to IoT platforms and other new device support from the LoongArch processor architecture to CXL memory support...

Intel Sends In More GPU Driver Patches For Linux 6.1: More Arc Graphics, Early MTL

Phoronix - Mon, 08/29/2022 - 22:53
Following last week's initial batch of Intel i915 GT updates for DRM-Next ahead of Linux 6.1, today a new pull request was issued of drm-intel-next material that is primed for Linux 6.1...

PostgreSQL Optimizes Performance & Lower Memory Management Overhead

Phoronix - Mon, 08/29/2022 - 19:40
An interesting commit made it into the open-source PostgreSQL database server this morning...

Intel Revises Linux Graphics Driver Support For DP MST Display Stream Compression

Phoronix - Mon, 08/29/2022 - 19:12
Along with all the other ongoing Linux work for Arc Graphics, another feature patch series from Intel worth mentioning is they have been buttoning up work on DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport Display Stream Compression (MST DSC) functionality...

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