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Firefox 90 Released With FTP Support Removed, Better WebRender Software Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 07/13/2021 - 21:18

Mozilla has officially released Firefox 90.0 as the latest monthly update to their cross-platform web browser...

Intel Tiger Lake Performance Between Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 21.04 Linux - Phoronix

Google News - Tue, 07/13/2021 - 21:10

Intel Tiger Lake Performance Between Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 21.04 Linux Phoronix

Clear Linux* Delivers a Lucid if Limited Vision of Desktop Linux | Review - LinuxInsider.com

Google News - Tue, 07/13/2021 - 20:03

Clear Linux* Delivers a Lucid if Limited Vision of Desktop Linux | Review LinuxInsider.com

Clear Linux* Delivers a Lucid if Limited Vision of Desktop Linux - TechNewsWorld

Google News - Tue, 07/13/2021 - 20:00

Clear Linux* Delivers a Lucid if Limited Vision of Desktop Linux TechNewsWorld

The Linux Kernel 5.14 Audio Update - Hackaday

Google News - Tue, 07/13/2021 - 19:00

The Linux Kernel 5.14 Audio Update Hackaday

Memory Folios Being Sought For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Tue, 07/13/2021 - 19:00

Being worked on for quite a while now by longtime kernel developer Matthew Wilcox of Oracle is memory folios to improve Linux's memory management and allow for greater efficiency. Benchmarks with memory folios have shown for example kernel builds can be up to 7% faster. It's looking like there is a desire to see at least some of this folios code land for Linux 5.15...

Linux Mint will no longer let you procrastinate on important updates - TechRadar

Google News - Tue, 07/13/2021 - 18:20

Linux Mint will no longer let you procrastinate on important updates TechRadar

Installing fonts on your Linux system - Network World

Google News - Tue, 07/13/2021 - 18:00

Installing fonts on your Linux system Network World

AMD Leveraging VKMS Driver To Improve Its Virtual Display Support

Phoronix - Tue, 07/13/2021 - 17:57

For several years already the AMDGPU kernel driver has supported virtual display functionality for cases like headless GPUs, pre-silicon hardware bring-up, GPUs/accelerators that lack physical display outputs, and other similar use-cases. That virtual display code is now being overhauled by re-using the existing VKMS DRM driver...

GNOME Mutter Lands New Work To Reduce Input Latency

Phoronix - Tue, 07/13/2021 - 17:38

Long running work by Ivan Molodetskikh to reduce the input latency for GNOME's Mutter compositor was merged today...

You can now download Linux Mint 20.2, here is what's new - Technology Zimbabwe

Google News - Tue, 07/13/2021 - 15:56

You can now download Linux Mint 20.2, here is what's new Technology Zimbabwe

Use VS Code to develop in containers

opensource.com - Tue, 07/13/2021 - 15:02

Coding and testing inconsistencies are a risk when you have multiple developers with different development environments working on a project. Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is an integrated development environment (IDE) that can help minimize these issues. It can be combined with containers to provide separate development environments for each application alongside a consistent development environment.

Use XMLStarlet to parse XML in your the Linux terminal

opensource.com - Tue, 07/13/2021 - 15:01

Learning to parse XML is often considered a complex venture, but it doesn't have to be. XML is highly and strictly structured, so it's relatively predictable. There are also lots of tools out there to help make the job manageable.