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Trinity Desktop R14.0.11 Released For Continuing To Improve Upon KDE 3.5

Phoronix - Sun, 10/31/2021 - 20:30
The Trinity Desktop Environment as a decade-old project that forked from the KDE 3.5 desktop continues persevering bit-by-bit to improve this once widely enjoyed desktop environment...

Memory Folios Looks For Inclusion In Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Sun, 10/31/2021 - 20:00
After memory folios failed to make it into Linux 5.15, this low-level change to the kernel memory management code that has possible performance implications is looking to land for Linux 5.16...

SDL2 Begins Landing More Workable RISC OS Support

Phoronix - Sun, 10/31/2021 - 18:20
Back in February 2020 SDL2 began seeing early work for RISC OS support. Now being merged this weekend to this key library used by many cross-platform games is now more functioning support for the RISC OS Arm-based operating system...

Performance Optimizations, Other "Big" Work For Linux 5.16 To The Block Code

Phoronix - Sun, 10/31/2021 - 17:44
Linux block subsystem maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe has prepared his various pull requests ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.16 merge window...

GDB Debugger Adds Native Support For OpenRISC On Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 10/31/2021 - 15:00
The GNU Debugger (GDB) has landed native support for OpenRISC on Linux and GDB server support...

How to kill a zombie process on Linux

opensource.com - Sun, 10/31/2021 - 15:00

Happy Halloween Open SOURCE-rers!

Here's a tale as old as epoch time. Since there has been C and Unix, and (later on) Linux, we've had zombies. Specifically, there are processes that get marked as a zombie process. Misunderstood by some, ignored by others, and immune to the efforts of so many of us trying to kill these processes without much success. Why is that?


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LibreOffice 7.3 Alpha 1 Tagged With More Open-Source Office Suite Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 10/31/2021 - 02:00
LibreOffice 7.3 Alpha 1 was tagged on Friday in the first step towards this next open-source office suite update due out early next year...

Mesa's Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Prepares Experimental Mesh Shaders

Phoronix - Sun, 10/31/2021 - 00:00
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan open-source driver "RADV" is preparing to introduce experimental support for mesh shaders...

Firefox 94 To Start Using EGL On Linux - Better Performance, Lower Power Use

Phoronix - Sat, 10/30/2021 - 17:29
Mozilla Firefox 94 will begin using its EGL back-end on the Linux desktop in conjunction with supported graphics drivers in order to provide better performance, lower power usage, and other benefits...

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