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Libaom, SVT-AV1 Mark New Open-Source AV1 Encoder Releases This Week

Phoronix - Sun, 05/09/2021 - 12:00
This week happened to see new releases of two prominent open-source AV1 video encoders...

Loongson 2K1000 Support Merged For Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 23:56
Support for the Loongson 2K1000 is finally mainline with the forthcoming Linux 5.13 kernel...

Linux 5.13 Merges Support For Intel DG1 Graphics Platform Monitoring / Telemetry

Phoronix - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 21:14
Outside of the i915 kernel graphics driver one of the areas Linux 5.13 is seeing more discrete graphics card bring-up work is within their PMT driver for enabling platform monitoring / telemetry support with this inaugural Intel PCIe graphics card...

PowerPC Pull Brings 32-Bit Improvements For Linux 5.13 - eBPF + KFENCE

Phoronix - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 19:12
The PowerPC architecture pull request for the Linux 5.13 cycle brings some improvements to its 32-bit support and other enhancements...

GIMP 2.99.6 Released But Still No Idea When GIMP 3.0 Will Be Ready

Phoronix - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 18:13
GIMP 2.99.6 is out today as the latest development release of this popular open-source image manipulation program...

KDE Developers Polish The Desktop Ahead Of Next Month's Plasma 5.22

Phoronix - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 17:55
KDE developers remain very active polishing up the KDE desktop and addressing various bugs ahead of next month's Plasma 5.22 feature release...

My weird jobs before tech

opensource.com - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 15:00

I had a few weird jobs before I hit tech.

I was a junior assistant in an aircraft repair shop, which meant tasks like cleaning dirty metal parts in solvent (wow, things were different back in the '70s). My most fun task there was ironing Dacron aircraft fabric onto the wooden ailerons and horizontal stabilizer on a beautiful old Beechcraft Staggerwing that was in the shop for a rebuild.


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The Top 5 Open-Source Microsoft 365 Alternatives for Linux

Tecmint - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 13:02
The post The Top 5 Open-Source Microsoft 365 Alternatives for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

It’s a well-known fact that Microsoft 365 is the default productivity solution for many companies and its range of features is truly impressive. It includes such functionalities as document editing, real-time collaboration, file sharing,

The post The Top 5 Open-Source Microsoft 365 Alternatives for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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