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Wayland Is Driving Fragmentation Around EDID Parsing - A Call To Fix That

Phoronix - Wed, 04/07/2021 - 19:08
In the open-source world there can even be much fragmentation and multiple implementations around something as central as parsing of EDID blobs for monitor (display) information and that's only been made worse by the growing number of Wayland compositors...

VirtIO Bluetooth Driver On The Way To The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 04/07/2021 - 17:46
The latest area being worked on with VirtIO for para-virtualized drivers for Linux with a focus on KVM is Bluetooth support...

Why I love using bspwm for my Linux window manager

opensource.com - Wed, 04/07/2021 - 15:02

Some folks like to rearrange furniture. Other folks like to try new shoes or redecorate their bedroom on the regular. Me? I try out Linux desktops.

After drooling over some of the incredible desktop environments I've seen online, I got curious about one window manager in particular: bspwm.


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What is Git cherry-picking?

opensource.com - Wed, 04/07/2021 - 15:01

Whenever you're working with a group of programmers on a project, whether small or large, handling changes between multiple Git branches can become difficult. Sometimes, instead of combining an entire Git branch into a different one, you want to select and move a couple of specific commits. This procedure is known as "cherry-picking."

This article will cover the what, why, and how of cherry-picking.

So let's start.


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Get started with batch files in FreeDOS

opensource.com - Wed, 04/07/2021 - 15:00

On Linux, it's common to create shell scripts to automate repetitive tasks. Similarly, on FreeDOS, the open source implementation of old DOS operating systems, you can create a batch file containing several FreeDOS commands. Then you can run your batch file to execute each command in order.


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How to Enable Remi Repository to Install Latest LAMP Stack

Tecmint - Wed, 04/07/2021 - 14:12
The post How to Enable Remi Repository to Install Latest LAMP Stack first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you are a system administrator, a developer, or a DevOps engineer, chances are that at some point you’ve had to set up (or work with) a LAMP (Linux / Apache / MySQL or

The post How to Enable Remi Repository to Install Latest LAMP Stack first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Running Steam's Linux Build On FreeBSD Is Becoming Increasingly Capable For Gaming

Phoronix - Wed, 04/07/2021 - 12:00
For many years it's been possible to run Linux games on FreeBSD along with other Linux applications thanks to FreeBSD's "Linuxulator" Linux binary compatibility layer. With that more recently it's becoming possible to run even more recent games thanks to improvements to FreeBSD's graphics drivers, the Linux binary compatibility code, and other FreeBSD improvements -- Steam is even working out for more titles...

Google Posts Initial Code For Lyra Speech Codec

Phoronix - Wed, 04/07/2021 - 08:16
Back in February we covered Google's work on the Lyra voice/audio codec designed for fitting with very low bit-rate audio for speech compression in use-cases like WebRTC and video chatting even on the most limited Internet connections. Thanks to leveraging machine learning, Lyra can function at just 3kbps. The code to Lyra is now public...

AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Patches To Allow Disabling Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF)

Phoronix - Wed, 04/07/2021 - 00:43
AMD last week published a security whitepaper on Zen 3's Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF) functionality introduced with Ryzen 5000 series and EPYC 7003 series processors. In the whitepaper they mentioned Linux patches were published for allowing this feature to be disabled if concerned about the security risk, well, today those patches were made public...

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