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Mir 2.7 Released With MirOil For Helping To Migrate Lomiri / Unity 8

Phoronix - Thu, 02/24/2022 - 22:26
Canonical this morning released Mir 2.7 as the newest version of its display stack that is centered around easing Wayland usage for various use-cases...

NZXT Developing Some Sort Of New Vulkan-Supported Software For Gamers

Phoronix - Thu, 02/24/2022 - 19:01
While NZXT is known for their computer cases, water cooling systems, and other peripherals for gamers, it appears they are ramping up their gaming software ambitions as well...

Google Posts New ASI Patches For KVM To Help Fight Off Speculative Execution Attacks

Phoronix - Thu, 02/24/2022 - 18:11
Google engineers have posted a big patch series for Linux as they work on a new Address Space Isolation implementation for KVM to help mitigate various types of speculative execution attacks...

Qualcomm Posts Linux Driver Patches For New "Gunyah" Hypervisor

Phoronix - Thu, 02/24/2022 - 17:35
Qualcomm by way of their QuiC innovation center have been developing Gunyah as an open-source type-1 hypervisor. Posted on Wednesday were the initial patches providing Linux driver support for Gunyah...

Scan documents and old photos on Linux with Skanlite

opensource.com - Thu, 02/24/2022 - 16:00

Although the world has mostly gone digital now, there are still times when you just have to print a form, sign it, and scan it back in. Sometimes, I find that a snapshot on my phone suffices, but some industries require a better copy than a hasty snapshot, and so a flatbed scanner is necessary. The KDE project provides an application called Skanlite that helps you import documents scanned on a flatbed, or even a tethered camera.

Install Skanlite on Linux

You can install Skanlite from your software repository. On Fedora, Mageia, and similar:


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