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Wine-Staging 6.3 Should Fix Some Half-Decade Old Bugs For Some Installers

Phoronix - Sat, 02/27/2021 - 20:13
Two weeks ago Wine-Staging 6.2 came in at 669 patches while now with the Wine-Staging 6.3 point release has climbed to just under 700 patches atop the upstream Wine code-base...

KDE Rolling Out New CLI Tools, Many Crash Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 02/27/2021 - 19:02
KDE developers have been wrapping up February with a number of new command line tools being worked on for applying various cosmetic changes to the desktop. There have also been many crash fixes addressed in recent days...

Build your own technology on Linux

opensource.com - Sat, 02/27/2021 - 16:01

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. Linux empowers its users to build their own tools.


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10 Useful Websites for Learning PostgreSQL Database System

Tecmint - Sat, 02/27/2021 - 14:25
The post 10 Useful Websites for Learning PostgreSQL Database System first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

PostgreSQL (also known as Postgres ) is the world’s most popular and advanced open-source enterprise-grade object-relational database management system (ORDMS). PostgreSQL has a broad variety of community and commercial support choices accessible for users.

The post 10 Useful Websites for Learning PostgreSQL Database System first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Google's New Lyra Voice Codec + AV1 Aim For Video Chats Over 56kbps Modems In 2021

Phoronix - Sat, 02/27/2021 - 14:00
Google's AI team has announced "Lyra" as a very low bit-rate codec for speech compression designed for use-cses like WebRTC and other video chats... With a bit rate so low that when combined with the likes of the AV1 video codec could potentially allow video chats over 56kbps Internet connections...

Mageia 8 Released - Flips On AMDGPU For Older GCN GPUs, Better ARM Support

Phoronix - Sat, 02/27/2021 - 09:16
Mageia 8 is out today as a significant and long overdue update to this Linux distribution long ago derived from Mandriva/Mandrake lineage...

Wine 6.3 Released With Several Low-Level Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 02/27/2021 - 05:04
Wine 6.3 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development snapshot of this free software solution for running Windows games and applications under Linux and macOS...

Kernel Electric-Fence: Linux 5.12 Merges KFence For Low-Overhead Memory Safety Feature

Phoronix - Sat, 02/27/2021 - 02:52
Linus Torvalds just merged a set of patches that includes KFence. Short for the Kernel Electric Fence, KFence is a low-overhead memory safety error detector/validator that is suitable for use in production kernel builds...

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