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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...

Linux Leading Over Early Windows 11 Benchmarks For AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 07/02/2021 - 22:23
With Microsoft making public this week their early Windows Insider Preview builds of Windows 11, curiosity got the best of me to give it a whirl in looking at the performance of the early Windows 11 preview build compared to Ubuntu Linux.

Intel Overhauls & Replaces Its RDMA Linux Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 07/02/2021 - 18:16
Intel has wrapped up a 3+ year effort to overhaul and replace its existing RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) driver. With Linux 5.14 is their shiny new "IRDMA" driver while their former driver is being immediately removed...

Systemd 249 Has Another Chance For Testing Before Release

Phoronix - Fri, 07/02/2021 - 17:52
Another release candidate of systemd 249 is available for testing while the actual release appears imminent...

Steam On Linux Still Tap Dancing Around 0.9% Marketshare

Phoronix - Fri, 07/02/2021 - 17:39
Even with Steam Play continuing to get into quite good shape for running recent Windows game releases on Linux with ease thanks to the work Valve has been investing into Proton, DXVK, VKD3D-Proton, and lower-level Linux graphics infrastructure, for now at least the overall marketshare is holding steady at around 0.8~0.9% for the past number of months...

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