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Libinput 1.20 Being Prepared With Improved High Resolution Scrolling

Phoronix - Sat, 02/05/2022 - 03:05
Libinput 1.19 launched last September with high resolution scroll wheel support finally in place while libinput 1.20 is in preparation for release that improves that functionality. Libinput 1.20 also makes other improvements to this widely-used input library on the Linux desktop that is leveraged by both X.Org and Wayland based environments...

Zenwalk 15 Released For Slackware With Flatpak + AppImage Ready, Desktop Optimizations

Phoronix - Sat, 02/05/2022 - 02:47
Back in the day I enjoyed Zenwalk as a great desktop-focused, ready out-of-the-box Linux distribution built atop Slackware. After not hearing much from the project in a while, I am glad to see it's still going strong and they have today issued Zenwalk 15 that is built atop the newly-released Slackware 15.0...

Qt 6.3 Beta Published With Wayland Improvements, New Features

Phoronix - Fri, 02/04/2022 - 21:51
Ahead of the planned release of Qt 6.3.0 next month, The Qt Company today has made available the first Qt 6.3 beta...

OnLogic ML100G-41 - A Great AMD Ryzen Powered SFF Industrial-Grade Computer

Phoronix - Fri, 02/04/2022 - 20:09
When it comes to small form factor (SFF) industrial PCs and IoT computers, it's been an area where Intel has traditionally dominated and served quite well. But now with the continued success of AMD's Ryzen processors, we are beginning to see more AMD-powered industrial computer solutions become available such as the recent OnLogic ML100 series with AMD SoC options. I've been testing out the OnLogic ML100G-41 powered by a Ryzen 7 4800U SoC for many weeks now and this fanless, industrial-grade computer has been running very well for a diverse variety of workloads.

It's 2022: Linux Open-Source GPU Drivers Seeing 3dfx Glide API Support

Phoronix - Fri, 02/04/2022 - 18:26
A new merge request for Linux's open-source Mesa graphics driver stack would provide a new 3dfx Glide API implementation that would work on modern GPUs backed by Mesa's Gallium3D drivers. This implementation of the 3dfx graphics API from the 1990s is implemented using the modern Rust programming language...

LibreOffice Finally Adding Support For The WebP Image Format

Phoronix - Fri, 02/04/2022 - 17:48
This week marked the release of LibreOffice 7.3 but already for LibreOffice 7.4 coming at the end of summer is a change many users will enjoy: the open-source office suite has finally decided to support the WebP image format...

GStreamer 1.20 Multimedia Framework Released With Many Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 02/04/2022 - 16:00
GStreamer 1.20 is out as stable as the newest version of this widely-used, open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework...

How we hired an open source developer

opensource.com - Fri, 02/04/2022 - 16:00

As the CEO and co-founder of Profian, a start-up security company, I've been part of our effort to hire developers to work on Enarx, a security project that deals with confidential computing, written almost exclusively in Rust (with a bit of Assembly). Profian has now found all the people it was looking for in this search, with a couple of developers due to start in the next few weeks.


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