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Mir 2.5 Released With Wayland Extension Updates For Better Handling On-Screen Keyboards

Phoronix - Tue, 10/05/2021 - 20:30
Canonical continues advancing their Wayland-based Mir stack for embedded and IoT use-cases. Out today is Mir 2.5 with the latest features as they work to provide better support for on-screen keyboards...

Vulkan 1.2.195 Introduced With Three New Extensions

Phoronix - Tue, 10/05/2021 - 20:19
Vulkan 1.2.195 is out today as the latest weekly update to this high performance, industry standard API for graphics and compute...

Microsoft Releases September Update To CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution

Phoronix - Tue, 10/05/2021 - 18:16
Not only did Microsoft release Windows 11 on Monday but they also released the latest monthly update to CBL-Mariner as the company's in-house Linux distribution...

Micron's HSE Storage Engine 2.0 Debuts - No Longer Relies On Linux Kernel Modifications

Phoronix - Tue, 10/05/2021 - 16:00
In April 2020 there was the somewhat surprising announcement of Micron announcing their own open-source storage engine designed for SSDs and persistent memory. The Heterogeneous-Memory Storage Engine (HSE) has been redesigned and on Monday debuted in v2.0 form with some fundamental changes...

Get podman up and running on Windows using Linux

opensource.com - Tue, 10/05/2021 - 15:02

WSL 2, the second iteration of the Windows Subsystem for Linux, allows you to run a Linux environment natively on Windows, without the overhead of a virtual machine (VM). It integrates nicely with Windows, too, and provides you access to most of the command-line tools, utilities, and applications you're used to on Linux.


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