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GNOME 42 Improves XWayland Auto Termination Handling

Phoronix - Sun, 01/30/2022 - 19:11
The latest GNOME 42 feature work to mention is a ten month old merge request landing that cleans up and improves the XWayland termination for when there are no more X11 clients running within the GNOME Wayland session...

AMD Publishes Latest Linux Patches For Enabling SEV-SNP Guest Support

Phoronix - Sun, 01/30/2022 - 18:36
One of the additions with EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors introduced last year was SEV-SNP as the "Secure Nested Paging" addition to AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization found with EPYC processors. While they have maintained an out-of-tree Linux source repository with the SEV-SNP patches, the mainline kernel is still lacking support for these latest security features but the code continues to undergo revisions and review for its eventual upstreaming...

Clear Linux Container Performance Continues Showing Sizable Gains

Phoronix - Sun, 01/30/2022 - 17:57
For those interested in using Distrobox to augment your operating system's package selection, not all containers are created equally. Distrobox developer Luca Di Maio recently did some tests for looking at the Linux container performance...

Open source tools to make your Wordle results accessible

opensource.com - Sun, 01/30/2022 - 16:00

Wordle seems to be popping up everywhere across social media feeds. Wordle is a quick word game that you can play once daily, and you can easily share results with friends over social media.

The aim of Wordle is to guess a secret word. To make a guess, enter a word, and Wordle displays the results of your guess in a grid of color-coded emoticons. Green indicates that a letter is in the correct location. Yellow indicates that the secret word contains the letter, but it is in the wrong location. And grey means that the letter isn't in the word at all.


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GNOME 42 Lands New Screenshot/Screencast UI

Phoronix - Sun, 01/30/2022 - 08:26
Developed during Google Summer of Code last year was an updated screenshot and screen recorder user interface. That improved screenshot/screencasting UI was merged this week for GNOME 42...

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