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Gentoo Spins Up More Stage Downloads For Musl libc, Systemd Init

Phoronix - Tue, 07/20/2021 - 21:09
The Gentoo project has announced the availability of a greater selection of stage files for download in kicking off the Gentoo Linux installation process...

NVIDIA Releases TensorRT 8.0 With Big Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 07/20/2021 - 21:00
NVIDIA today is making available a much faster version of TensorRT, its SDK for optimized deep learning inference on their GPUs...

Vulkan 1.2.185 Introduces Several New Extensions - Includes Presentation Work Led By Valve

Phoronix - Tue, 07/20/2021 - 18:48
Vulkan 1.2.185 was christened this morning with several new extensions being introduced...

CentOS In Your Car? Automotive SIG Approved

Phoronix - Tue, 07/20/2021 - 18:13
The newest special interest group (SIG) approved by the CentOS Board of Directors is around the automotive space for in-vehicle automotive use-cases...

KDE Plasma Mobile 21.07 Released With More Responsive Shell, Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 07/20/2021 - 17:57
The folks working on KDE's mobile efforts have released Plasma Mobile 21.07 as the newest feature release...

Access cloud files on Windows with ownCloud

opensource.com - Tue, 07/20/2021 - 15:01

Most computer users nowadays rely on online file storage. Thanks to the rise of cloud computing, the idea of storing files remotely and downloading them when needed has gained a lot of fresh air in recent years. Yet, the principle's technical roots are anything but new, with implementations reaching back decades. While the protocols used and features expected for accessing data on online storage have changed massively, the basic idea hasn't altered much since the days of FTP and similar protocols.


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Run a Linux virtual machine in Podman

opensource.com - Tue, 07/20/2021 - 15:01

Fedora CoreOS is an automatically updating, minimal rpm-ostree-based operating system for running containerized workloads securely and at scale.

Podman "is a tool for managing containers and images, volumes mounted into those containers, and pods made from groups of containers. Podman is based on libpod, a library for container lifecycle management."


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Fedora 35 Looking To Employ WirePlumber For Managing PipeWire

Phoronix - Tue, 07/20/2021 - 15:00
While Fedora 34 successfully shipped with PipeWire for managing audio/video streams and replacing PulseAudio use-cases, with Fedora 35 this autumn the integration around PipeWire should be even better...

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