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RISC-V With Linux 5.19 Preps "COMPAT" Mode For 32-bit Apps On 64-bit Kernels & More

Phoronix - Sun, 05/22/2022 - 03:49
With Linux 5.18 expected to be released as stable tomorrow and that opening up the Linux 5.19 merge window, feature work aimed for this next kernel should be largely wrapped up. Within the RISC-V architecture's "for-next" branch is several interesting additions...

Systemd 251 Released With systemd-sysupdate Introduced, Many Other Additions

Phoronix - Sat, 05/21/2022 - 23:51
Systemd 251 is officially out this Saturday as the first feature update to this Linux init system for 2022...

Ubuntu 22.10 Switching To PipeWire For Linux Audio Handling

Phoronix - Sat, 05/21/2022 - 18:30
An early change made this week to Ubuntu 22.10 in its early development state is replacing the PulseAudio sound server with PipeWire...

An Open-Source Firmware Virtual Beer Event Is Happening Next Week

Phoronix - Sat, 05/21/2022 - 18:00
The folks from the Polish open-source firmware consulting firmware 3mdeb are hosting another "OSF vPub" where they discuss open-source firmware efforts over beers in this currently-virtual event...

HarfBuzz 4.3 Released With Big Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 05/21/2022 - 17:21
HarfBuzz 4.3 was released on Friday as this open-source library that serves as a text shaping engine used by GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt, Android, Flutter, Java, all major web browsers, and other software...

KDE Plasma 5.25 Preparing More Bug Fixes, Continued Wayland Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 05/21/2022 - 17:05
Following this week's KDE Plasma 5.25 beta release, KDE developers turned their attention to bug fixing and they accomplished a lot...

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