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How to Convert PDF to Image in Linux Command Line

Tecmint - Fri, 01/01/2021 - 13:53

pdftoppm converts PDF document pages to image formats like PNG, and others. It is a command-line tool that can convert an entire PDF document into separate image files. With pdftoppm, you can specify the

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Happy New Year! A Look Back At The Most Popular Phoronix Content Of 2020

Phoronix - Fri, 01/01/2021 - 09:34
After 219 Linux hardware reviews / benchmark featured articles and 3,206 original news articles on Phoronix for 2020, it's finally time to put a wrap on this year... Happy New Year and 2021 couldn't have come soon enough!..

Linux 5.12 Should See ACPI Platform Profile Support To Alter System Thermal/Power Levels

Phoronix - Fri, 01/01/2021 - 05:57
Thanks to the ongoing upstream improvements being pursued by Lenovo as part of their effort to enhance their product support, the Linux power management tree has picked up the initial ACPI Platform Profile implementation for benefiting newer devices like Lenovo laptops...

OpenBenchmarking.org Enjoyed A Major Overhaul In 2020, Significant Growth

Phoronix - Fri, 01/01/2021 - 04:03
This month marks ten years since OpenBenchmarking.org initially went online as part of Phoronix Test Suite 3.0 development (though didn't officially launch until February 2011). In 2020 alongside Phoronix Test Suite 10.0 came a major OpenBenchmarking.org upgrade as the biggest in its history. As 2020 wraps up, here is a look at the OpenBenchmarking.org growth by the numbers...

GNOME In 2020 Saw Many Optimizations, GTK 4.0 Released, GNOME 40 In Development

Phoronix - Fri, 01/01/2021 - 02:25
The GNOME desktop environment saw many enhancements in 2020 including a number of significant performance optimizations. While GNOME on Wayland has been solid for some time, there has been further enhancements there too. This year also brought the much anticipated GTK 4.0 toolkit release that will be interesting to see how its adoption goes next year. GNOME 40 is also in development for debut in the spring as the successor to this autumn's successful GNOME 3.38 release...

Rust 1.49 Released With 64-bit ARM Linux Support Rated Tier-1

Phoronix - Fri, 01/01/2021 - 00:37
Rust 1.49 was released today for ending out 2020 with this popular programming language. Most notable with Rust 1.49 is the 64-bit ARM Linux support state being promoted...

Intel Media VA-API Driver Update Adds EU Fused Dispatch For 8K Video Processing

Phoronix - Thu, 12/31/2020 - 23:15
Yesterday Intel released an updated open-source Media SDK for leveraging media acceleration on their graphics hardware. Along with that out today is the Intel Media Driver 20.4.5 release as their dedicated Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver for Linux systems...

Linux To Report MIPS Vulnerabilities But They Often Go Unreported Or Dead Vendors

Phoronix - Thu, 12/31/2020 - 22:17
The Linux kernel with the likes of ARM and x86 hardware leverage kernel infrastructure for reporting their relevant CPU security mitigations while only now the MIPS kernel code is seeing work to report such vulnerabilities. However, on the MIPS front it's more difficult with some vendors not publicly acknowledging vulnerabilities and other cases of MIPS hardware vendors no longer producing the hardware in question or even in business...

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