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LibreOffice Begins Landing GTK4 Support Code

Phoronix - Tue, 05/11/2021 - 17:55
Ahead of this week's LibreOffice 7.2 Alpha and the feature freeze / branching next month, initial GTK4 toolkit support code has begun landing in this open-source office suite...

Microsoft Bringing eBPF Support To Windows

Phoronix - Tue, 05/11/2021 - 17:45
eBPF has been one of the greatest Linux kernel innovations of the past decade and now Microsoft has decided to bring this "revolutionary technology" to Windows Server and Windows 10...

Axel – A Command-Line File Download Accelerator for Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 05/11/2021 - 15:25
The post Axel – A Command-Line File Download Accelerator for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you are the kind of person who enjoys downloading and trying out several Linux distributions, we are sure you will welcome with open arms a download accelerator that talks the talk and walks

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Use the Alpine email client in your Linux terminal

opensource.com - Tue, 05/11/2021 - 15:01

Email is an important communications medium and will remain so for the foreseeable future. I have used many different email clients over the last 30 years, and Thunderbird is what I have used the most in recent years. It is an excellent and functional desktop application that provides all the features that most people need—including me.


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What is fog computing?

opensource.com - Tue, 05/11/2021 - 15:00

In the early days, computers were big and expensive. There were few users in the world, and they had to reserve time on a computer (and show up in person) to have their punchcards processed. Systems called mainframes made many innovations and enabled time-shared tasks on terminals (like desktop computers, but without their own CPU).


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Putting parenting first: How Red Hatters have juggled work and family

Red Hat News - Tue, 05/11/2021 - 12:00

"It was just a whirlwind," Caitlyn Speranza says, remembering her return to work at Red Hat after giving birth to daughter, Zelda. "We had picked out a daycare and put down deposits. We were ready. And then I got a call from my manager saying that everyone was going to work from home, and everything changed."

Daemon Engine 0.52 Beta Continues Advancing The id Tech 3 Open-Source Code In 2021

Phoronix - Tue, 05/11/2021 - 12:00
The Daemon engine that has been in development for many years as part of the Unvanquished open-source game project released their long-awaited 0.52 beta ahead of the game's next beta later in the week. Daemon was originally based on the open-source id Tech 3 game engine but in 2021 continues pushing ahead working on features like WebAssembly support and renderer enhancements...

OpenZFS 2.1-rc5 Released With Linux 5.12 Support, Many Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 05/11/2021 - 08:36
Two weeks have passed since OpenZFS 2.1-rc4 while today a fifth release candidate was issued for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Coreboot 4.14 Released With 42 New Motherboards Added, AMD Cezanne APU Support

Phoronix - Tue, 05/11/2021 - 05:28
It's been a half-year already since Coreboot 4.13 was released so out now is Coreboot 4.14 that is represented by over thirty six hundred new commits adding dozens of new motherboards now supported...

DragonFlyBSD 6.0 Released With Many Kernel Optimizations, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 05/11/2021 - 04:16
DragonFlyBSD 6.0 has officially launched today as the newest version of this popular BSD operating system...

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