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GNOME 42 Beta Released - Begins The UI / Feature / API Freeze, More Apps Ported To GTK4

Phoronix - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 21:40
Ahead of next month's GNOME 42.0 desktop debut, today marks the GNOME 42 Beta (or "42.beta" as they prefer) and this also initiates the start of the user-interface, API, and feature freeze for this six month update...

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Linux's getrandom() Sees A 8450% Improvement With Latest Code

Phoronix - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 20:20
The Linux kernel's random number generator code has been seeing a number of improvements recently led by Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard fame...

ASUS MeMO Pad 7, Nextbook Ares 8 Seeing Better Support With Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 19:58
Being introduced with Linux 5.18 is the new x86-android-tablets driver that is just used for dealing with quirky Intel-powered Android tablets that were designed around running custom vendor kernels for these consumer electronic devices and never the mainline Linux kernel. This x86-android-tablets driver provides workarounds/quirk handling for improving what would otherwise be a buggy experience when trying to run Linux on these devices...

VA-API Library 2.14 Released With AV1 Encode Interface

Phoronix - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 18:27
Intel has released libva 2.14 as the newest version of this VA-API (Video Acceleration API) driver-agnostic library. Notably with libva 2.14 is adding an AV1 encode interface for upcoming GPUs having hardware-accelerated AV1 encode...

OpenChrome DRM Driver For Open-Source VIA Continues To See Some Activity In 2022

Phoronix - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 17:55
If you are still using a motherboard with a VIA x86 chipset, it's really long past due to consider upgrading to a newer platform, but if that is not feasible the UniChrome IGP graphics support continues to still be worked on occasionally for Linux in 2022. The OpenChrome driver project remains in a sad state and out-of-tree, but is continuing to see fixes and re-based against newer versions of the Linux kernel...

GCC 12 Adds Support For AArch64 Shadow Call Stack

Phoronix - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 17:42
Squeezing into the GCC 12 compiler release is support for the Shadow Call Stack functionality on 64-bit Arm (AArch64)...

How to make KDE look like GNOME on Linux

opensource.com - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 16:01

GNOME has a tendency for minimalist design. It's a beautiful desktop experience, and holds the honor of being the first free desktop that's ever elicited vocalized admiration from someone looking over my shoulder as I use Linux. Then again (and pardon the armchair philosophizing), you can't have minimalism without complexity, and KDE is well known for being very customizable.


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4 levels of DevOps documentation maturity

opensource.com - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 16:00

DevOps and DevSecOps require agile documentation practices to deliver quality documentation on time with an iterative software delivery cycle. It's a similar journey to DevOps with a move to automation and a more agile approach to content. If documentation is only now entering your organization's DevOps discussions, it's time to catch your documentation practices up to DevOps.

Here are the four levels of DevOps documentation maturity:


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10 Useful Tools to Create Bootable USB from an ISO Image

Tecmint - Tue, 02/22/2022 - 15:21
The post 10 Useful Tools to Create Bootable USB from an ISO Image first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

CD and DVD writers are a thing of the past. You are not likely to find them in modern-day laptops. If your goal is to create a bootable medium, then creating a bootable USB

The post 10 Useful Tools to Create Bootable USB from an ISO Image first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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