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What is Proton? - TechRadar

Google News - Sat, 09/18/2021 - 18:00
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GIMP 2.10.28 Released With More Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 09/18/2021 - 17:56
There's still some time to go before seeing the long-awaited GIMP 3.0 release for this open-source image manipulation program but at least out this weekend is GIMP 2.10.28 for bettering the current stable series...

KDE Sees Another Big Batch Of Plasma Wayland Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 09/18/2021 - 17:42
Along with releasing Plasma 5.23 Beta this week, KDE developers have been busy on driving in a bunch of Plasma Wayland fixes and other refinements to their stack...

Why my public library chooses Linux and open source

opensource.com - Sat, 09/18/2021 - 15:00

The Crawford County Federated Library System has been using Linux and open source software in its IT operations since 1999. They realized early on the potential of open source and integrated it into their enterprise. They were a part of my own Linux journey as I built a content filtering system for our school district. Twenty years ago, there were few models for the use of open source in libraries and education. Meadville Public Library and the Crawford County Federated Library System were the leaders then and now.


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Red Hat Is Hiring So Linux Can Finally Have Good HDR Display Support

Phoronix - Sat, 09/18/2021 - 03:15
One of the areas where Linux has struggled on the desktop has been around HDR (high dynamic range) display support while that will hopefully be addressed in the coming months with Red Hat hiring an engineer to focus on that problem...

Apple Silicon / M1 Port Planned For GCC 12

Phoronix - Sat, 09/18/2021 - 02:41
Developers are hoping for next year's GCC 12 release they will have Apple AArch64 support on Darwin in place for being able to support Apple Silicon -- initially the M1 SoC -- on macOS with GCC...

Experimenting Is Underway For Rust Code Within Mesa

Phoronix - Sat, 09/18/2021 - 01:39
Longtime Mesa developer Karol Herbst who has worked extensively on the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver as well as the OpenCL/compute stack while being employed by Red Hat is now toying with the idea of Rust code inside Mesa...

Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS Released To Correct Broken Install Media

Phoronix - Sat, 09/18/2021 - 01:06
The unplanned Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS release is available today that was made on short notice for addressing unbootable media with Ubuntu 18.04.5...

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