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Microsoft Has Another Go At Their DirectX Linux Kernel Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 03/02/2022 - 19:38
Microsoft on Tuesday posted a third iteration of their "DXGKRNL" Linux kernel driver for DirectX / Hyper-V compute support for use within Windows Subsystem for Linux / Windows Subsystem for Android...

New Patches Posted For Booting Linux On The Nintendo Wii U

Phoronix - Wed, 03/02/2022 - 18:57
Last month there were discussions around potentially working to upstream the Linux support for Nintendo's Wii U game console. While there are serious limitations to the support, posted today were the patch series for review providing basic Wii U enablement...

CentOS New "AutoSD" Distribution Announced For In-Vehicle Linux Distro

Phoronix - Wed, 03/02/2022 - 18:27
The CentOS Automotive Special Interest Group today is announcing the Automotive Stream "AutoSD" Linux distribution...

HarfBuzz 4.0 Released For This Open-Source Text Shaping Library

Phoronix - Wed, 03/02/2022 - 18:14
The HarfBuzz open-source text shaping library that is used by GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt, Android, Java, Flutter, Firefox, LibreOffice, and numerous other applications and toolkits is out with HarfBuzz 4.0...

How to use httpx, a web client for Python

opensource.com - Wed, 03/02/2022 - 16:00

The httpx package for Python is a sophisticated web client. Once you install it, you can use it to get data from websites. As usual, the easiest way to install it is with the pip utility:

$ python -m pip install httpx --user

To use it, import it into a Python script, and then use the .get function to fetch data from a web address:


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Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 LTS

Tecmint - Wed, 03/02/2022 - 13:58
The post Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 LTS first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Having written a few top things in the past for Ubuntu systems, it’s that time of the year again for us to revisit the subject of some of the ideal things you need to

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Results that surprised us in The State of Enterprise Open Source report

Red Hat News - Wed, 03/02/2022 - 13:00

We surveyed nearly 1,300 IT decision makers at medium to large enterprises worldwide about the state of enterprise open source. Learn more about some of the key takeaways.

Chrome 99 Released With Canvas 2D Improvements, Other Developer Features

Phoronix - Wed, 03/02/2022 - 08:29
We are now one release away from Chrome 100 but prior to that now available is Chrome 99 that brings a number of prominent developer additions...

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