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EXT4 With Linux 5.13 Looks Like It Will Support Casefolding With Encryption Enabled

Phoronix - Sun, 04/11/2021 - 17:48
While EXT4 supports both case-folding for optional case insensitive filenames and does support file-system encryption, at the moment those features are mutually exclusive. But it looks like the upcoming Linux 5.13 kernel will allow casefolding and encryption to be active at the same time...

Why Crate.io has returned to its pure open source roots

opensource.com - Sun, 04/11/2021 - 15:00

The headline benefits of open source are widely known and well-articulated. Open source technologies provide enterprise-level scalability, performance, security, and reliability. Trust is there, and it's deserved. But what's less celebrated, other than by die-hard open source adherents, are the inner workings of the everyday community contributions building those macro benefits at the atomic level. For those offering open source technologies, it is the community's constant user-driven testing and hardening that forges those technologies into robust and proven solutions.


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LuxCoreRender 2.5 Open-Source PBR Renderer Released With NVIDIA OptiX/RTX Support

Phoronix - Sat, 04/10/2021 - 21:41
The LuxCoreRender open-source physically based rendering (PBR) software is out with its latest major feature release that now offers NVIDIA OptiX/RTX acceleration support alongside the existing CPU, NVIDIA CUDA, and OpenCL rendering paths...

KDE Lands More Crash Fixes, Activities Feature Working On Wayland

Phoronix - Sat, 04/10/2021 - 18:00
It's been another week of fixes and feature work for the KDE desktop as the march continues toward the Plasma 5.22 release this summer...

5 signs you're a groff programmer

opensource.com - Sat, 04/10/2021 - 15:00

I first discovered Unix systems in the early 1990s, when I was an undergraduate at university. I liked it so much that I replaced the MS-DOS system on my home computer with the Linux operating system.


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Radeon Vulkan Driver Adds Option Of Rendering Less For ~30% Greater Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 04/10/2021 - 12:00
If your current Vulkan-based Radeon Linux gaming performance isn't cutting it and a new GPU is out of your budget or you have been unable to find a desired GPU upgrade in stock, the Mesa RADV driver has added an option likely of interest to you... Well, at least moving forward with this feature being limited to RDNA2 GPUs for now...

Wine 6.6 Released With Better Plug & Play Driver Support

Phoronix - Sat, 04/10/2021 - 05:05
Wine 6.6 is out as the open-source project's first release of April for running Windows games and applications primarily on Linux and macOS platforms. With Wine 6.6 comes more feature work that will ultimately be incorporated into the Wine 7.0 release due out in early 2022...

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