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Use different time zones on your Linux KDE desktop

opensource.com - Sun, 02/20/2022 - 16:00

I used to marvel at people who required more than one clock, each set to an exotic timezone, on the wall. I saw it mostly in movies, so when I met someone in real life with lots of clocks, it made them seem particularly important, like the leader of a global spy network or a big banking syndicate. And yet lately, I find myself needing to be aware of at least three different timezones on a regular basis. It's not that I've become more important, it's just that the world has gotten smaller, thanks to technology and remote work.


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Libinput 1.20 Released With Improved High Resolution Scrolling

Phoronix - Sun, 02/20/2022 - 02:53
Libinput 1.20 is out today as the first update since last September to this widely-used Linux input handling library that is relied on both within X.Org and Wayland powered desktops...

AMD Sends In Bits Of New Hardware Blocks For Linux 5.18 Radeon Updates

Phoronix - Sat, 02/19/2022 - 21:35
Building off last week's Radeon graphics driver updates for Linux 5.18 that included introducing AMDKFD CRIU and enabling FreeSync Video Mode by default, Friday evening brought a second batch of feature updates for this next kernel version...

PostgreSQL Begins Working On Zstd Compression Support

Phoronix - Sat, 02/19/2022 - 20:42
While PostgreSQL has supported compression with its TOAST storage and over the past year has built-up LZ4 compression support for it along with compressing the WAL, backup compression, and other usage, PostgreSQL developers are preparing to further extend their compression capabiities with Zstd support...

Intel Working On "Small BAR" Linux Driver Support For DG2/Alchemist

Phoronix - Sat, 02/19/2022 - 19:07
Intel's forthcoming Arc Graphics "Alchemist" (DG2) graphics cards do support Resizable BAR functionality as covered when they previously published Linux patches for it. They are also now working on a DG2 feature for "small BAR" support...

Intel Core i9 12900K On Linux Reigns "King Of The IOPS-Per-Core"

Phoronix - Sat, 02/19/2022 - 18:44
It's been a while since last hearing anything of Linux block subsystem maintainer's Jens Axboe crusade on achieving the maximum possible IOPS-per-core. However, on Friday he was out with his latest insight in still declaring Intel's Core i9 12900K "Alder Lake" processor as being the king of IOPS-per-core performance at nearly 13M IOPS per CPU core...

KDE Developers Had A Very Busy Valentine's Week With Many Plasma Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 02/19/2022 - 18:26
KDE developers had a very busy Valentine's week with working on more fixes for the recently released Plasma 5.24 as well as making early progress on Plasma 5.25 and improving KDE apps and other areas of their open-source desktop environment...

Crop and resize photos on Linux with Gwenview

opensource.com - Sat, 02/19/2022 - 16:00

A good photo can be a powerful thing. It expresses what you saw in a very literal sense, but it also speaks to what you experienced. Little things say a lot: the angle you choose when taking the photo, how large something looms in the frame, and by contrast the absence of those conscious choices.

Photos are often not meant as documentation of what really happened, and instead they become insights into how you, the photographer, perceived what happened.


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