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KDE Plasma 5.21 Released With Better Wayland Support, Desktop Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 22:20
The KDE community today released Plasma 5.21 as the latest major release of this open-source desktop...

Qt 6.1 Alpha Released

Phoronix - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 21:37
Just two months after the release of Qt 6.0, given the quicker release cycle this year, Qt 6.1 Alpha is already available that follows the feature freeze that began earlier this month...

Slackware 15.0 On Approach With An Early Alpha Build Available

Phoronix - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 20:33
While Slackware carries the badge of being the oldest still maintained Linux distribution, it doesn't see new releases too often and doesn't carry the popularity it once did. In any case, Slackware 15.0 is being prepared as the next release...

Linux 5.12 Crypto Brings AES-NI Acceleration For CTS, Faster XTS With Retpolines

Phoronix - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 20:22
On Monday the crypto subsystem updates were sent in to the Linux 5.12 kernel by crypto maintainer Herbert Xu...

How to install Linux in 3 steps

opensource.com - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 16:02

In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. Here's how to install Linux. 


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How Ansible got started and grew

opensource.com - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 16:02

Recently, Flagsmith founder Ben Rometsch spoke to Michael DeHaan, founder of open source IT automation software Ansible (now part of IBM/Red Hat), on The Craft of Open Source podcast about how he developed Ansible and what he's been doing since.


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What does being 'technical' mean?

opensource.com - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 16:00

The word "technical" describes many subjects and disciplines: technical knock-out, technical foul, technical courses for rock-climbing competitions, and technical scores for figure skating in sports. The popular cooking show The Great British Bake-Off includes a technical baking challenge. Anybody who has participated in the theatre may be familiar with technical week, the week before the opening night of play or musical.


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Zink With Mesa 21.1 Now Advertises OpenGL 4.6

Phoronix - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 15:49
Mike Blumenkrantz continues to be on a mad roll when it comes to getting all of the Zink patches upstreamed into mainline Mesa... This Gallium3D-based OpenGL over Vulkan translation layer now has OpenGL 4.6 turned on for Mesa 21.1!..

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