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AMD GPU Driver Developers Pursuing New HDR Display Work For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 17:56
One of the areas of Linux desktop display support that isn't as well supported compared to Windows is high dynamic range (HDR) displays. There have been various vendors and developers over the years working towards Linux desktop HDR improvements but still it hasn't been a fast-advancing area in the open-source ecosystem. At least now AMD Radeon graphics driver developers do appear to be working on HDR improvements...

Clang CFI Support Upstreamed For Linux 5.13 - But Only On ARM64 For Now

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 17:26
Now that Clang LTO support landed in Linux 5.12 and cleared the blocker on CFI support, that LLVM Clang control-flow integrity (CFI) capability is now upstream for Linux 5.13...

GhostBSD Shifts Base To FreeBSD 13.0, Improvements For OpenZFS 2.0

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 17:06
It was just earlier this month that FreeBSD 13.0 released while already GhostBSD has issued a new release of this desktop-oriented operating system re-based against the new FreeBSD 13.0 base...

Manuel Sabban - Linux Journal

Google News - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 15:00
Manuel Sabban  Linux Journal

Access an alternate internet with OpenNIC

opensource.com - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 15:00

In the words of Dan Kaminsky, the legendary DNS hacker, "the Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society." For the Internet to work, computers must be able to find one another on the most complex network of all: the World Wide Web. This was the problem posed to government workers and academic IT staff a few decades ago, and it's their solutions that we use today.


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Building an open infrastructure for civic participation

opensource.com - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 15:00

Open source is living through a curious moment: just like sharing movements in academia and communities once helped develop open source, open source is now inspiring the development of communities.


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LFCA: Learn Serverless Computing, Benefits and Pitfalls – Part 15

Tecmint - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 13:54
The post LFCA: Learn Serverless Computing, Benefits and Pitfalls – Part 15 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Serverless technology has generated a lot of hype in the tech community evoking a lot of curiosity and receiving some backlash to a little extent. It’s a technology that began with the launch of

The post LFCA: Learn Serverless Computing, Benefits and Pitfalls – Part 15 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Apple Magic Mouse 2, Microsoft SAM Support Added For Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 08:31
When it comes to Apple hardware support in the Linux 5.13 kernel not only is support for the Apple M1 SoCs added but the Magic Mouse 2 is also finally being supported in full by the mainline kernel. Plus there are other various interesting HID subsystem updates too this kernel cycle...

Total War: Rome Remastered Released For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 08:13
The previously announced Total War: Rome Remastered that was announced by Feral Interactive is now released...

QEMU 6.0 Released With AMD SEV-ES Encrypted Guest Support, Experimental Multi-Process

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 04:40
QEMU 6.0 is out today as the newest feature release for this processor/machine emulator and virtualizer that serves as an important part of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

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