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Distrobox 1.3 Released For Quickly & Easily Firing Up Different Distros On Your System

Phoronix - Sun, 05/29/2022 - 17:39
A new version of Distrobox was released today, the open-source system that allows quickly and easily launching different distributions from your terminal via Podman or Docker. Distrobox has been a popular option for augmenting the package selection/versions available on your system or as well for firing up faster versions of software...

XFS With Linux 5.19 Brings "Lots Of New Code"

Phoronix - Sun, 05/29/2022 - 17:22
The XFS file-system updates for the Linux 5.19 merge window are on the heavier side with this pull being described as "a big update with lots of new code" abound for this summer 2022 kernel release...

PulseAudio 16.0 Released With A Variety Of Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 05/29/2022 - 07:25
While PipeWire continues gaining traction for fulfilling the audio management roles long handled by PulseAudio, the PulseAudio project itself continues progressing and successfully evolving its mature code-base. Out this weekend is PulseAudio 16.0...

Chrome 103 Beta Adds Local Font Access, Deflate-Raw Compression Format

Phoronix - Sat, 05/28/2022 - 20:00
Following this week's release of Chrome 102, Google has promoted Chrome 103 to beta for their cross-platform web browser...

Numerous "MM" Improvements Land In Linux 5.19

Phoronix - Sat, 05/28/2022 - 19:30
Andrew Morton with his recent shift to a Git-based workflow rather than maintaining long patch series has sent in all of the memory management "mm" changes for the Linux 5.19 merge window...

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