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Linux Developers Ponder Decade-Old Decision To Disable PCI Runtime Power Management By Default

Phoronix - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 16:28
Back in 2010 was a change to disable run-time power management of PCI devices by default and leaving it up to user-space to in turn override it if desired. Now as we gear up for 2021, some upstream kernel developers are wondering about that original decision and possibly changing the default behavior to yield better out-of-the-box power savings with modern systems...

9 insights from pivoting to remote work in 2020

opensource.com - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 16:00

2020 was the year remote work became the norm. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people and companies shifted to "temporary" remote work, though many have now extended it indefinitely. As remote work will be the norm for the foreseeable future, here’s a review of some of the many articles published on Opensource.com regarding remote work practices, tools, and activities to manage this new normal.


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Jot down your ideas in a digital notebook

opensource.com - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 16:00

I love a good notebook. I usually get one or two blank notebooks from technical conferences each year, and I spend the journey home deciding what I’ll fill the empty pages with. Sometimes, it’s notes about some new open source technology; other times, it’s ideas for new games, or a collection of dungeons for my D&D groups, or ideas for a fictional world or story. The ideas tend to flow freely when I have a blank notebook in front of me, because it’s empty, and nature abhors a vacuum.


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DragonFlyBSD Adds HAMMER2 Multi-Volumes Support

Phoronix - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 13:00
The HAMMER2 file-system that has been used by default on DragonFlyBSD for some time has lacked multi-volumes support compared to its former HAMMER1 file-system. But as of this weekend in the latest Git development code, HAMMER2 now has initial support for multiple volumes...

Celebrate The Christmas Season With Some Wine: Wine 6.0-RC4 Released

Phoronix - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 03:20
While being released one day late due to Christmas, Wine 6.0-RC4 is out. This is the latest weekly test candidate of the forthcoming Wine 6.0 as the annual stable release due out in January for this leading software to run Windows programs/games on Linux, macOS, and the BSDs...

Linux 5.10.3 Released - Fixes Possibility Of Duplicate Encrypted Filenames

Phoronix - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 01:53
Linux 5.10.3 is out today as a post-Christmas stable release update...

KDE Celebrated Christmas With KIO-FUSE Stable Release, NeoChat Matrix Chat App

Phoronix - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 01:12
Even with Christmas week there has been a lot of improvements still happening in the KDE world...

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