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Math is fun with this Linux graphing calculator

opensource.com - Sun, 02/27/2022 - 16:00

If you spent your high school years gazing at TI-80 series calculators but lost track of the device somewhere along the way, then you might sometimes yearn to relive those thrilling years of algebra and calculus. Somebody on the Linux KDE project must have felt that way, too, because one of the KDE Framework libraries, Analitza, provides syntax and widgets to enable you to perform advanced math functions with K apps like the graphing calculator KAlgebra.


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Future Intel Systems To Reportedly Be Even Less Friendly For Open-Source Firmware

Phoronix - Sat, 02/26/2022 - 23:30
According to the Coreboot camp, future Intel systems with FSP 3.0 and Universal Scalable Firmware (USF) will be even less friendly for open-source system firmware...

More AMD Radeon Driver Improvements Lined Up For Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Sat, 02/26/2022 - 22:51
Already for the upcoming Linux 5.18 kernel cycle on the AMDGPU driver side has been preparations for new hardware blocks presumably coming with RDNA3 GPUs, FreeSync Video Mode by default, and other changes. As likely the last "feature" pull of AMDGPU material for Linux 5.18, another pull request to DRM-Next was submitted on Friday...

Linux 5.18 Adding Audio Support For NVIDIA's Orin SoC

Phoronix - Sat, 02/26/2022 - 20:43
NVIDIA's Orin SoC with twelve Cortex-A78AE CPU cores and Ampere graphics should be quite a strong offering when it's more broadly available later this year. This "Tegra234" SoC has been seeing work on enabling it with the mainline Linux kernel and the latest fruit of that work is a new HDA audio driver set for introduction with Linux 5.18...

Latest Batch Of LoongArch Patches Posted For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 02/26/2022 - 20:00
China's Loongson has posted their latest set of patches for enabling their MIPS-derived LoongArch CPU architecture for the Linux kernel...

KDE Had An Exciting Week With Plasma Available On The Steam Deck, Many Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 02/26/2022 - 18:56
KDE developers are surely celebrating this weekend now that Valve's Steam Deck is shipping and KDE Plasma is the default desktop in the "developer mode". But in any event it's been another busy week for KDE developers with fixes and improvements to their open-source desktop stack...

My favorite casual games to play on Linux

opensource.com - Sat, 02/26/2022 - 16:00

I love a good game that you can immerse yourself in for hours, but I don't always have the luxury of ignoring daily tasks to disappear into a video game. Still, I do love a fun challenge from time to time, and two of my favourite applications to launch when my computer gets busy doing something that I need to wait on are games from the KDE Games package: KBlocks and Kolf.


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