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LibreOffice Sees New Activity For Compiling To WebAssembly

Phoronix - Wed, 01/19/2022 - 22:13
Last May there was some work on compiling LibreOffice to WebAssembly as another means of getting this open-source office suite executing within the web browser and other environments. It had been quiet since on the LibreOffice WASM front but a number of new commits were merged this morning...

KDE's 15-Minute Bug Initiative Gets Underway

Phoronix - Wed, 01/19/2022 - 19:09
KDE developer Nate Graham has sorted through plans for the 15-minute bug initiative for focusing on correcting many low-hanging bugs affecting the KDE desktop that should be able to be quickly discovered by users...

AMDVLK 2022.Q1.1 Released With Radeon RX 6500 XT Support

Phoronix - Wed, 01/19/2022 - 18:46
After ending out 2021 with an AMDVLK update to fix poor performance on Wayland, AMD today issued AMDVLK 2022.Q1.1 with their first set of changes for the new year...

Linux 5.17 RISC-V Allows Rebooting Without Needing Special Driver, HiFive Unmatched Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 01/19/2022 - 18:26
The RISC-V architecture updates for the in-development Linux 5.17 kernel have been successfully submitted...

Intel Media Driver 22 Debuts With Alchemist / ATS-M Support, ADL-N

Phoronix - Wed, 01/19/2022 - 17:40
Intel's Media Driver 22.1.1 has been released as their firsr 22.x series open-source GPU video encode/decode software release. This quarterly update introduces new hardware support and a number of feature updates...

Apache Hop Hops To Top-Level Project Status

Phoronix - Wed, 01/19/2022 - 16:30
After starting off in development more than two decades ago as Kettle, Apache Hop in its current form has now made it to being an Apache Software Foundation top-level project...

Manage your passwords in the Linux terminal

opensource.com - Wed, 01/19/2022 - 16:01

These days, we all have a few dozen passwords. Fortunately, the bulk of those passwords are probably for websites, and you probably access most websites through your internet browser, and most browsers have a built-in password manager. The most common internet browsers also have a synchronization feature to help you distribute your passwords between the browsers you run across all your devices, so you're never without your login information when you need it.


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Protect your PHP website from bots with this open source tool

opensource.com - Wed, 01/19/2022 - 16:00

PHP is a widely-used programming language on the web, and it's estimated that nearly 80% of all websites use it. My team at CrowdSec decided that we needed to provide server admins with a PHP bouncer to help ward away bots and bad actors who may attempt to interact with PHP files.


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