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DRM Lease Protocol Support Merged For Wayland For VR Headsets

Phoronix - Sat, 08/07/2021 - 20:51
The months-long effort for adding DRM lease support to Wayland via a new protocol has now been merged into Wayland Protocols as a new staging addition. The "drm_lease_v1" is principally motivated for improving the virtual reality head-mounted dispkay support under Wayland...

Latte Dock 0.10 Released

Phoronix - Sat, 08/07/2021 - 18:30
It's been two years already since Latte Dock 0.9 was released while finally Latte Dock 0.10 is ready to officially meet the world this weekend...

KDE Kicks Off August With Many Bug Fixes To Benefit Steam Deck & More

Phoronix - Sat, 08/07/2021 - 17:53
The first week of August saw many fixes land in the KDE camp as they prepare for their software to be used on more third-party products, with Steam Deck being just the latest notable product leveraging KDE...

AMD Prepares More Graphics Driver Code For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Sat, 08/07/2021 - 15:00
Last week's AMDGPU pull request to DRM-Next for Linux 5.15 added support for the "Cyan Skillfish" APU and other early work while an additional pull request was submitted on Friday...

Remove files and folders in the Linux terminal

opensource.com - Sat, 08/07/2021 - 15:00

To remove a file on a computer using a graphical interface, you usually drag a file or a folder to a "trash" or "recycle" bin. Alternately, you might be able to select the file or folder you want to remove, right-click, and select Delete.


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16 Useful Bandwidth Monitoring Tools to Analyze Network Usage in Linux

Tecmint - Sat, 08/07/2021 - 13:36
The post 16 Useful Bandwidth Monitoring Tools to Analyze Network Usage in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Are you having problems monitoring your Linux network bandwidth usage? Do you need help? It’s important that you are able to visualize what is happening in your network in order to understand and resolve

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22 Linux Networking Commands for Sysadmin

Tecmint - Sat, 08/07/2021 - 12:58
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A system administrator’s routine tasks include configuring, maintaining, troubleshooting, and managing servers and networks within data centers. There are numerous tools and utilities in Linux designed for administrative purposes. In this article, we will

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Gallium Nine Lands Threaded Context Support, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 08/07/2021 - 12:00
Several improvements were merged on Friday to Mesa's Gallium3D Nine state tracker that allows for an alternative means of Direct3D 9 support within Wine...

GNOME's New Human Interface Guidelines Now Official

Phoronix - Sat, 08/07/2021 - 02:06
In recent months there has been an effort to update GNOME's Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) to reflect the GTK4 toolkit and recommendations around new widgets, utility panes, and more for enhancing the accessibility of GNOME applications, arguably looking better, and just otherwise modernizing aspects of the HIG that haven't been touched in months. That updated GNOME HIG is now official...

AMDVLK 2021.Q3.3 Released With Performance Tuning For Rage 2 On Navi 2

Phoronix - Sat, 08/07/2021 - 01:08
AMD has published their newest open-source Vulkan driver snapshot from their official sources that comprise this "AMDVLK" offering for Linux users...

Hands On With The AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

Phoronix - Fri, 08/06/2021 - 21:00
After the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT was announced last week and ahead of the retail availability next week, today AMD's "unboxing embargo" has expired for this new RDN2 graphics card focused on delivering high 1080p frame rates. The card we have been testing out under Linux is the ASRock Phantom Gaming RX 6600 XT.

Firefox 92 To Try Again With AVIF Image Support By Default

Phoronix - Fri, 08/06/2021 - 20:50
Mozilla is trying once again to enable AVIF image decoding support by default within the Firefox web browser. AVIF is the promising image file format based on using AV1 in the HEIF file format...

Amazon's DAMON Landing For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Fri, 08/06/2021 - 20:06
Amazon's Data Access Monitor "DAMON" code is now set for introduction in Linux 5.15...

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