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Linux 5.10-rc4 Released But The Kernel Hasn't Calmed Down Yet

Phoronix - Mon, 11/16/2020 - 09:16
Traditionally we should be past the half-way point of the release cycle at the fourth weekly release candidate, but with today's RC4 release of Linux 5.10 the activity hasn't calmed down at all...

Google Is Already Experimenting With WebP2 As Successor To WebP Image Format

Phoronix - Mon, 11/16/2020 - 05:00
Google engineers are already working on WebP2 as the next-generation version of their still image file format...

Tiger Lake H Thunderbolt Support Comes To Linux 5.10

Phoronix - Mon, 11/16/2020 - 00:42
Coming as a late addition to the Linux 5.10 kernel is Thunderbolt support for Tiger Lake H...

KDE Plasma Mobile On Track To End 2020 With Quite A Polished Linux Mobile Experience

Phoronix - Sun, 11/15/2020 - 22:38
KDE Plasma Mobile continues working its way into increasing polished form and with deployments on the likes of the PinePhone have shown it can be quite a capable open-source mobile Linux contender...

Desktop BSDs: NetBSD-Based os108 9.1 + MidnightBSD 2.0 Released

Phoronix - Sun, 11/15/2020 - 22:25
For those looking to experiment with some BSD desktop operating systems this weekend, FreeBSD-based MidnightBSD 2.0 is out along with NetBSD-based os108 9.1...

LuxCoreRender 2.5 Beta Open-Source Renderer Brings NVIDIA OptiX Support

Phoronix - Sun, 11/15/2020 - 21:55
The open-source, cross-platform LuxCoreRender physically based renderer is closing in on its version 2.5 release and most noticeable is supporting NVIDIA's OptiX library for faster acceleration on NVIDIA RTX GPUs...

A Specification Is Being Discussed For Passing Firmware/Bootloader Logs To The OS

Phoronix - Sun, 11/15/2020 - 16:32
Stemming from a GRUB bootloader inquiry and discussion that started over one year ago, a new specification is being proposed for possible adoption by the Linux kernel in being able to pass bootloader or system firmware logs to the operating system kernel for in turn exposing them to user-space...

Fedora's Qt-Based Media Writer Seeing Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 11/15/2020 - 13:19
Fedora Media Writer is the project's cross-platform utility for deploying Fedora install images to USB drives in an easy-to-user manner and for selecting from the various Fedora spins. One of Red Hat's engineers has recently been working on some modernization improvements to this Fedora image writer...

Linux App Summit 2020 Videos Now Available From Steam/Valve To GNOME Circle

Phoronix - Sun, 11/15/2020 - 06:10
The 2020 Linux App Summit just concluded as a conference focused on the Linux user-space/applications. Given the pandemic, it was a virtual conference and the video recordings are now available...

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