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8 Best KDE Based Linux Distributions That You’ll Love

Tecmint - Mon, 03/28/2022 - 12:19
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The KDE Plasma desktop is an attractive and feature-rich environment to use. It provides a fluid interface with a touch of elegance that leaves many other Linux desktop environments in the dust. The desktop’s

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RISC-V Gets Sv57-Based Virtual Memory, Other Improvements For Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Mon, 03/28/2022 - 00:06
The RISC-V CPU architecture updates have landed for the in-development Linux 5.18 kernel...

libdisplay-info Started To Address The Wayland Fragmentation Around EDID/DisplayID

Phoronix - Sun, 03/27/2022 - 19:50
There has been a known problem for some time that with the increasing number of different Wayland compositors out there, there is a lot of fragmentation when it comes to display EDID/DisplayID handling. Thankfully libdisplay-info has been started with hopes of addressing that issue...

WirePlumber 0.4.9 Fixes Surround Sound For Some Linux Games

Phoronix - Sun, 03/27/2022 - 18:48
WirePlumber is the increasingly used session/policy manager for PipeWire for audio/video streams on the Linux desktop. Out this weekend is WirePlumber 0.4.9 with some important fixes and improvements...

Linux 5.18 Xen USB Driver To Harden Against Malicious Hosts

Phoronix - Sun, 03/27/2022 - 18:17
The many USB and Thunderbolt feature patches have landed into the in-development Linux 5.18 kernel...

KDE Plasma 5.25 Seeing Touch Gesture Additions, More Fixes & Other Work

Phoronix - Sun, 03/27/2022 - 17:26
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly summary of all the notable KDE changes to land in the past week...

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