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Plasma 5.23 Lands More Last-Minute Fixes To Avoid Wayland Crashes

Phoronix - Sat, 10/02/2021 - 17:31
Plasma 5.23 stable is due to be released in two weeks while until then KDE developers are scurrying to land more fixes in this next desktop update...

Monitor your Java on Linux with jconsole

opensource.com - Sat, 10/02/2021 - 15:00

The Java Development Kit (JDK) provides binaries, tools, and compilers for the development of Java applications. One helpful tool included is jconsole.

To demonstrate, I will use the WildFly J2EE application server, which is part of the JBOSS open source application server project. First, I start up a standalone instance.


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Nearly Two Decades Later, ATI Radeon R300 Linux Driver Sees Occasional Improvement

Phoronix - Sat, 10/02/2021 - 07:30
While earlier this year AMD shifted their Radeon Software driver focus to only supporting Polaris / GCN 1.4 and newer, when it comes to the open-source driver support on Linux there still is occasional activity going back to the ATI Radeon R300 days from nearly two decades ago...

Red Hat / Fedora To Focus On Driving New Linux Video Improvements Around PipeWire

Phoronix - Sat, 10/02/2021 - 01:51
PipeWire from the start was designed around handling the needs of both audio and video streams on Linux. While PipeWire is already in use for screencasting/recording under Wayland and working with Flatpak'ed applications, recently much of PipeWire's focus has been on addressing the use-cases of JACK and PulseAudio on the sound side. Now that the audio support is in quite good shape, Red Hat engineers are back to focusing on improvements to the video support...

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