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GNOME Console Could Be Ubuntu 22.10's GNOME Terminal Replacement

Phoronix - Tue, 08/02/2022 - 18:59
Back in May was a proposal by Canonical desktop software engineer Jeremy Bicha to use the new GNOME Console as the default terminal application in Ubuntu 22.10, replacing the GNOME Terminal. That default change hasn't happened yet but some necessary improvements have now been made to Ubuntu Kinetic's gnome-console package ahead of that possible shift...

Rust Code For The Linux Kernel Updated With More Features Implemented

Phoronix - Tue, 08/02/2022 - 18:10
Miguel Ojeda has posted the newest patch series implementing the Rust programming language infrastructure and initial sample code for the Linux kernel...

Btrfs With Linux 6.0: Send Protocol v2, ~3x Boost For Direct Read Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 08/02/2022 - 17:55
SUSE's David Sterba sent in the Btrfs file-system updates on Monday for the in-development Linux 6.0 kernel...

AMD Prepares Linux Support For L3SBE Slow Memory Bandwidth Configuration, BMEC

Phoronix - Tue, 08/02/2022 - 17:25
Some of the newest Linux patches out of AMD for new processors are implementing support for some recently-documented Quality of Service extensions: L3SBE and BMEC...

GNU C Library 2.36 Released With New Functions, More Optimizations

Phoronix - Tue, 08/02/2022 - 17:08
Released overnight was a new version of Glibc, the GNU C Library, commonly used by Linux systems as the default libc implementation...

How to Fix Error: Failed to Download Metadata for Repo ‘AppStream’

Tecmint - Tue, 08/02/2022 - 15:46
The post How to Fix Error: Failed to Download Metadata for Repo ‘AppStream’ first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you, for one reason or the other, are still actively using CentOS 8, you might probably have encountered the following error when trying to update your system or simply install a package. “Error:

The post How to Fix Error: Failed to Download Metadata for Repo ‘AppStream’ first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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