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Libzip 1.8 Released With Support For Zstd Compressed ZIP Files

Phoronix - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 19:19
Libzip as the widely-used C library for accessing. creating, and modifying Zip archives is out with a new feature release...

KDE Gets Expandable Tooltips, Larger Clipboard, More Wayland Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 18:00
Even with the warm summer weather and many municipalities loosening pandemic lockdown restrictions, KDE developers remain quite busy this summer with a variety of improvements to this open-source desktop...

Nearly A Decade Later, UPower Still Working Towards 1.0 Release

Phoronix - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 15:00
For nearly one decade there has been talk of UPower 1.0 while in 2021 that still has yet to materialize for this former "DeviceKit-Power" project but at least now there is UPower v0.99.12 as the first release in two years...

Try quantum computing with this open source software development kit

opensource.com - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 15:00

Classical computing is based on bits. Zeros and ones. This isn't because there's some inherent advantage to a binary logic system over logic systems with more states—or even over analog computers. But on-off switches are easy to make and, with modern semiconductor technology, we can make them very small and very cheap.


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Oracle Sends Out Latest Linux Patches So Trenchboot Can Securely Launch The Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 12:00
Trenchboot continues to be worked on for providing boot integrity technologies that allow for multiple roots of trust around boot security and integrity. Oracle engineers on Friday sent out their latest Linux kernel patches so it can enjoy a "Secure Launch" by the project's x86 dynamic launch measurements code...

RADV Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Begins Landing Ray-Tracing Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 07:05
In recent months RADV lead developer Bas Nieuwenhuizen began working on Vulkan ray-tracing support for this Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver that isn't officially supported by AMD but as an alternative to the company's open-source AMDVLK driver or their cross-platform proprietary Vulkan driver. Hitting the Mesa 21.2-devel code a few minutes ago is the initial Vulkan ray-tracing bits for RADV!..

Wine 6.11 Released With Theming Support For All Built-In Programs

Phoronix - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 04:10
Wine 6.11 is out as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot for running an increasing number of Windows applications and games on Linux...

Proton 6.3-5 RC Allows More Windows Games To Run On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 03:00
Just in time for the weekend Linux gamers is a new release candidate of the upcoming Proton 6.3-5 that powers Valve's Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

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