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Linux 5.15 To Fix Regression In Its Floppy Disk Driver

Phoronix - Mon, 08/30/2021 - 01:48
Near the beginning of the year was some rare work on Linux's floppy disk driver and -- a half-year later -- it was found out that not only do people with systems using floppy disks still move to newer kernels, but that work earlier in the year had regressed the Linux kernel's floppy disk handling. Now coming for Linux 5.15 is a fix...

Some Of The Features Expected For Linux 5.15: DG2/Alchemist, BPF Timers, DAMON + More

Phoronix - Sun, 08/29/2021 - 18:00
If all goes according to plan the Linux 5.14 kernel will be released as stable today. Linux 5.14 has many new features but there is also a lot of work slated for the next cycle, Linux 5.15. Here's a look...

Chrome/Chromium's Ozone X11 Code Now Fully Enabled, Old Legacy X11 Code To Be Removed

Phoronix - Sun, 08/29/2021 - 15:15
The Chrome/Chromium web browser now has fully-enabled the Ozone/X11 platform support across both beta and stable channels...

Position text on your screen in Linux with ncurses

opensource.com - Sun, 08/29/2021 - 15:00

Most Linux utilities just scroll text from the bottom of the screen. But what if you wanted to position text on the screen, such as for a game or a data display? That's where ncurses comes in.


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