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Linux 5.13-rc4 Releases As A "Fairly Sizable" Test Release

Phoronix - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 06:33
Linux 5.13-rc4 is out this US Memorial Day weekend and it has ticked up to being a rather large weekly test release...

X.Org Server Lands X Input 2.4 Touchpad Gestures

Phoronix - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 01:51
While there are no signs of X.Org Server 1.21 shipping anytime soon, being merged today to the Git code-base is bumping X Input to version 2.4 with the introduction of touchpad gestures...

Cairo Graphics Sees Major Improvements To Its SVG Backend

Phoronix - Sun, 05/30/2021 - 19:25
The Cairo 2D vector graphics library used by the likes of GTK, Mozilla, WebKit, and many other open-source projects is seeing some big strides made on its SVG back-end...

NVIDIA vs. AMD Linux Gaming Performance For End Of May 2021 Drivers

Phoronix - Sun, 05/30/2021 - 18:29
With May quickly drawing to a close, here are some fresh Linux gaming benchmark figures for the latest AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards on their respective latest Linux graphics drivers while looking at the performance across a variety of OpenGL and Vulkan games/workloads...

After UMN Debacle, Patatt Aims To Provide Cryptographic Attestation For Patches

Phoronix - Sun, 05/30/2021 - 17:53
Linux kernel developer Konstantin Ryabitsev has been working on Patatt as a cryptographic-based patch attestation system. While started a while ago, there is renewed interest in such patch attestation following the University of Minnesota "hypocrite commit" debacle...

16 efficient breakfasts of open source technologists from around the world

opensource.com - Sun, 05/30/2021 - 15:00

Breakfast …. It's the most important meal of the day, or so they say. But who wants to spend time on a big meal when you could be sleeping instead? (And if your breakfast is too big, you might feel the need to go back to sleep.)

Still, busy developers, sysadmins, and other IT pros need some fuel to start their day. So, we asked some of our contributors to tell us how they feed their hunger without "eating" into their rest or work time. Here's what they had to say.


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