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Linux 5.8 Will Finally Be Able To Control ThinkPad Laptops With Dual Fans

Phoronix - Sun, 05/03/2020 - 18:28
Long overdue but for Lenovo ThinkPad laptops sporting two fans, the Linux 5.8 kernel will see the ability to control both fans...

13 tips for getting your talk accepted at a tech conference

opensource.com - Sun, 05/03/2020 - 15:00

As tech conference organizers ramp up for the fall season, you may be seeing calls for papers (CFP) landing in your email box or social media feeds. We at All Things Open (ATO) have seen a lot of presentation proposals over the years, and we've learned a few things about what makes them successful.


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Valve Updates Steam Survey Data For April With A Slight Linux Increase

Phoronix - Sun, 05/03/2020 - 02:00
Valve has published their Steam Survey results for April, which is the first full month where the US and still much of the world has been in lockdown over the coronavirus, and thus interesting to see how it has impacted the gamer metrics...

Enlightenment 0.24 Alpha Released For This X11 Window Manager / Wayland Compositor

Phoronix - Sun, 05/03/2020 - 00:20
The first alpha release of the Enlightenment 0.24 window manager / Wayland compositor with new features and other improvements...

ReactOS Upgrades Its Build Environment - Shifting To A Much Newer GCC Compiler

Phoronix - Sun, 05/03/2020 - 00:01
The "open-source Windows" ReactOS project has upgraded its build environment leading to much newer versions of key compiler toolchain components...

Intel's OpenCL Intercept Layer Sees First Release In Two Years

Phoronix - Sat, 05/02/2020 - 23:50
Intel's OpenCL Intercept Layer remains focused on debugging and analyzing OpenCL application performance across platforms. It hadn't seen a new release, however, in two years but that changed last month...

KDE Starts May With Dolphin Improvements, Various Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 05/02/2020 - 21:42
KDE developers remain as busy as ever during the global lockdown around the coronavirus...

Linux 5.8 Seeing Support For New Marvell/Aquantia Atlantic "A2" NICs

Phoronix - Sat, 05/02/2020 - 19:09
Linux 5.8 will see support for next-generation Marvell/Aquantia network chipsets...

Open-Source XR Runtime Monado Seeing Better Performance, New Functionality

Phoronix - Sat, 05/02/2020 - 18:23
Monado, the open-source OpenXR run-time implementation for Linux, has been advancing quite well since we last reported on it back in February with its inaugural v0.1 release...

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