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KDE Plasma 5.22 Released With Much Better Wayland Support, Usability Enhancements

Phoronix - Tue, 06/08/2021 - 20:45
KDE's big Plasma 5.22 desktop release is now available with maturing its Wayland support continuing to be one of the big ongoing focuses for the project...

openSUSE FrontRunner Aims To Advance The Distro's Hardware Architecture Support

Phoronix - Tue, 06/08/2021 - 19:21
More information on openSUSE's FrontRunner initiative are now being shared as a rebuild of SUSE Linux Enterprise in the Open Build Service and allowing for staging changes to advance architecture enablment for future Leap releases...

Canonical's Mir 2.4 Brings Numerous X11 + Wayland Enhancements

Phoronix - Tue, 06/08/2021 - 19:09
Mir continues to be developed by Ubuntu-maker Canonical as a set of libraries and Wayland compositor for building Wayland-based shells with integrated window management and other features to ease the bring-up and catering to business use-cases around IoT and digital signage, among other uses. Out today is version 2.4 of Mir with more features and fixes...

CentOS Looks To Deal With Deprecated Device Support, Out-Of-Tree Kernel Modules

Phoronix - Tue, 06/08/2021 - 18:14
Being proposed within the CentOS project is a new special interest group for providing kernel modules not otherwise available within CentOS Stream. This would also include changes around where CentOS / Red Hat disable some kernel modules or artificially limit the scope of supported hardware...

Wine 6.0.1 Pops Open Support For The Apple M1, Dozens Of Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 06/08/2021 - 17:55
While Wine's bi-weekly development releases are normally in good shape and suitable for Linux gamers and other enthusiasts wanting to run Windows games and applications on Linux or macOS, Wine 6.0.1 is out this week for those sticking to the yearly stable releases with follow-on point releases...

Qt 6.1.1 Released With 150+ Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 06/08/2021 - 17:44
Following last month's release of Qt 6.1, the first point release of this latest Qt6 stable series is now available...

Play Doom on Kubernetes

opensource.com - Tue, 06/08/2021 - 15:03

Do you ever feel nostalgic for Doom and other blocky video games, the ones that didn't require much more than a mouse and the hope that you could survive on a LAN with your friends? You know what I'm talking about; the days when your weekends were consumed with figuring out how you could travel with your desktop and how many Mountain Dews you could fit in your cargo pants pockets? If this memory puts a warm feeling in your heart, well, this article is for you.


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Tune your MySQL queries like a pro

opensource.com - Tue, 06/08/2021 - 15:02

Many people consider tuning database queries to be some mysterious "dark art" out of a Harry Potter novel; with the wrong incantation, your data turns from a valuable resource into a pile of mush.


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How FreeDOS boots

opensource.com - Tue, 06/08/2021 - 15:01

One thing I appreciate from growing up with DOS computers is that the boot process is relatively easy to understand. There aren't a lot of moving parts in DOS. And today, I'd like to share an overview of how your computer boots up and starts a simple operating system like FreeDOS.


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