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Reiser5 Stabilizing Its Logical Volume Functionality

Phoronix - Mon, 11/23/2020 - 13:00
This New Year's Eve will mark one year since the announcement of the in-development Reiser5 file-system. While the outlook for getting Reiser5 upstreamed into the mainline kernel remains murky given the out-of-tree status of Reiser4, Edward Shishkin does continue advancing this latest Reiser file-system iteration...

Linux 5.10-rc5 Released And It's Still Seeing Too Much Churn

Phoronix - Mon, 11/23/2020 - 08:35
Linux 5.10-rc4 last weekend was still rather heavy on changes but this evening now brings Linux 5.10-rc5 and unfortunately the situation has not improved.....

Kodi 19 Now In Beta With Python 3 Addons, AV1 Software Decoding

Phoronix - Mon, 11/23/2020 - 05:00
The Kodi HTPC software formerly known as XBMC is now up to a beta state for their big version 19 "Matrix" release...

MPV Player 0.33 Brings Nearly A Year's Worth Of Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 11/23/2020 - 02:37
MPV as the open-source, cross-platform media player based long ago off the MPlayer/MPlayer2 code-base is out with a new feature release ahead of the holiday season...

Flatpak's New Repo Format For Greater Flathub Scalability, More Architectures To Come

Phoronix - Mon, 11/23/2020 - 01:25
Flatpak and the Flathub "app store" and build service are rolling out a new repository format in order to scale better now that there are around one thousand applications on Flathub...

The 2020 US Thanksgiving / Black Friday Phoronix Premium Special

Phoronix - Sun, 11/22/2020 - 22:12
In marking the US Thanksgiving week, the Black Friday / Christmas shopping season, and just another week grinding away during the COVID-19 pandemic while seeing depressed ad rates on top of ad-block users hurting our ability to continue producing new and exciting Linux/open-source content, here is our Phoronix Premium special for the holidays to show your support while getting discounted access to enjoy the site ad-free, multi-page articles on a single page, and other benefits...

Debian Has Been Hosting A MiniDebConf Devoted To Linux/Open-Source Gaming

Phoronix - Sun, 11/22/2020 - 21:00
For those looking for some technical open-source/Linux video content to enjoy this weekend, the Debian crew has been hosting a virtual MiniDebConf devoted to gaming and all of the material is online...

Linux Sees A Slew Of Point Releases Due To That Nasty IBM POWER9 Vulnerability

Phoronix - Sun, 11/22/2020 - 20:40
Greg Kroah-Hartman has issued new point releases for all of the Linux kernel series he is still maintaining as a result of that IBM POWER9 processor vulnerability plus other random fixes that have accumulated...

GIMP Turns 25 Years Old As Leading Open-Source Photoshop Alternative

Phoronix - Sun, 11/22/2020 - 19:30
It's been twenty-five years to the day since GIMP was started as an open-source image editor and in turn sparked the creation of the GTK tool-kit...

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