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Fedora's Qt-Based Media Writer Seeing Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 11/15/2020 - 13:19
Fedora Media Writer is the project's cross-platform utility for deploying Fedora install images to USB drives in an easy-to-user manner and for selecting from the various Fedora spins. One of Red Hat's engineers has recently been working on some modernization improvements to this Fedora image writer...

Linux App Summit 2020 Videos Now Available From Steam/Valve To GNOME Circle

Phoronix - Sun, 11/15/2020 - 06:10
The 2020 Linux App Summit just concluded as a conference focused on the Linux user-space/applications. Given the pandemic, it was a virtual conference and the video recordings are now available...

Building A Large L-Shaped Desk For Accommodating Plenty Of Computers

Phoronix - Sun, 11/15/2020 - 00:00
Four years ago I chronicled building a massive L-shaped desk for a better workflow, more monitors and space. For those that may be wanting to procure a new computer desk if you are working from home or eyeing L-shaped desk options, here is a new build I recently finished up as an improvement over my original design

LLVM Has Fleshed Out Its Plan For Replacing "Master" With "Main"

Phoronix - Sat, 11/14/2020 - 22:09
Back during the summer LLVM developers began devising plans for a new default branch name in Git for fostering the development of the open-source compiler stack. Like a growing number of open-source software projects, they have been working to move away from Git's current default of "master" as the main development branch. Beginning next month, that should now be a reality...

KDE Sees A Number Of Fixes To Dolphin, Plasma On Wayland

Phoronix - Sat, 11/14/2020 - 19:33
It's been another busy week of bug fixing in the KDE space along with other feature work, including on the Plasma Wayland front...

Intel Preparing Linux Support For The "Protected Xe Path" PXP Functionality

Phoronix - Sat, 11/14/2020 - 17:06
Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver developers have begun preparing support for a new feature previously not talked about publicly: Intel PXP or the "Protected Xe Path"...

How I channel my inner Star Trek character at work

opensource.com - Sat, 11/14/2020 - 16:00

In a recent Twitter thread, I self-identified as "some days Deanna, some days Riker." Others shared their own "Star Trek Spectrum," from Worf to O'Brien and McCoy to Neelix. That led me to think more about Deanna Troi: the half-human, half-Betazoid empath who served as Lieutenant Commander and the ship's counselor for most of Star Trek: The Next Generation.


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OpenMP 5.1 Released With Better Interoperability For CUDA / AMD HIP / OpenCL

Phoronix - Sat, 11/14/2020 - 14:00
For the Supercomputing SC20 week there is the release of the OpenMP 5.1 specification with some exciting additions...

Mesa 21.0 Adds EGL_EXT_platform_xcb Support

Phoronix - Sat, 11/14/2020 - 13:00
The newly-opened Mesa 21.0 development window has merged support for EGL_EXT_platform_xcb...

Proton 5.13-2 Released With A Variety Of Game Fixes, VKD3D-Proton 2.0

Phoronix - Sat, 11/14/2020 - 05:11
In time for the weekend Linux gamers is an updated Proton release from Valve and CodeWeavers for powering Steam Play to enjoy the latest Windows games on Linux...

Mageia 8 Linux OS Is Inching Closer To Release

Phoronix - Sat, 11/14/2020 - 04:09
"The road to get Mageia 8 is winding, slow but steady," begins the project's latest status update...

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