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XFS Sees A Lot Of Cleanups For Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 21:00
The XFS file-system continues seeing a lot of work cleaning up the kernel driver code as well as some minor feature improvements heading into Linux 5.14...

New/Updated Benchmarks For June From GravityMark To L4D2 Vulkan, Updated Neural Networks

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 19:13
During the past month were a number of updated Phoronix Test Suite test profiles made available on OpenBenchmarking.org as part of our open-source cross-platform benchmarking framework...

Linux 5.14 POWERs Up The Microwatt Soft CPU Core

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 18:24
The POWER architecture updates have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 5.14 merge window with a few changes worth pointing out this round...

Darktable 3.6 Released For This Free Alternative To Adobe Lightroom

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 18:08
Darktable 3.6 is out as this summer's feature update to this open-source RAW photography software package and a great alternative to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom...

KDE Ends June With Wayland Fixes, More Responsive Plasma With Faster SVG Handling

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 17:58
KDE developers ended June with yet more Plasma Wayland fixes plus a number of other worthwhile fixes too...

Identify flowers and trees with this open source mobile app

opensource.com - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 15:00

Where I live, there are lots of trails and roads lined with flowers and trees. My community is famous for its annual maple festival, and maple trees are easy for me to identify. However, there are many other trees I cannot identify by name. Flowers are the same: dandelions are easy to spot, but I don't know the names of the wildflowers that line my walking path.

Recently my wife told me about PlantNet, a mobile application that can identify these flowers and trees. It's available on iOS and Android, and it's free, so I decided to try it out.


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OpenZFS 2.1 Released With dRAID, Compatibility Property, Better Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 04:39
Shipping now as the successor to last November's big OpenZFS 2.0 release is OpenZFS 2.1 as quite a worthy follow-on release...

Wine 6.12 Released With More PE Conversion, New Themes

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 04:05
In celebrating the US holiday weekend, Wine 6.12 has arrived for popping in enjoying the latest Windows games and applications on Linux...

Linux 5.14 Bringing SD Cache Ctrl Support, Other SD Card Support Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 01:00
The MMC/MEMSTICK updates for Linux 5.14 bring more work on bettering the kernel's Secure Digital card support...

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