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KDE Sees New Features, Bug Fixes Ahead Of Christmas

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 19:13
Winter holidays haven't yet slowed down the pace of improvements for the KDE desktop stack. It was another busy week enhancing KDE Plasma and related desktop components with new functionality and fixes...

Debian Working To Modernize Its Website, Rolls Out New Homepage

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 16:49
The Debian project's current website has arguably a rather dated look and feel but work is underway on modernizing the website to give it a fresh look. This week the project rolled out a redesigned homepage...

Learn a new old language by programming a game in Algol 68

opensource.com - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 16:01

In this article series, Opensource.com Correspondents and others have been writing the same "guess the number" game in various programming languages. This exercise shows how the basic concepts you'll find in most programming languages—variables, expressions, and statements—can be applied to learn new languages.


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6 ways this fullscreen text editor improves focus

opensource.com - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 16:00

The great thing about computers is that they’re really good at multi-tasking.

The bad thing about computers is that they’re really good at multi-tasking.

Whether you consider yourself, as a human, good or bad at multi-tasking, sometimes you need a little help focusing. One of those times is when you’re trying to compose clear and concise communication. And that’s exactly why Focuswriter was developed.


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F2FS Continues Furthering Its Encryption, Per-File Data Compression Capabilities

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 13:22
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) continues seeing new work around its transparent data compression, optional case insensitive behavior, and native encryption support with the new code queued for Linux 5.11...

Radeon ROCm 4.0 Released With CDNA GPU Support (Instinct MI100)

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 07:18
Announced just over one month ago to the day was the AMD Instinct MI100 and as part of that the ROCM 4.0 software stack. ROCm 4.0 didn't end up actually shipping then but today its sources were uploaded and release builds made available...

Ubuntu Developers Get it Up And Running On Apple's M1 With Early Parallels Desktop Build

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 05:52
There has been some early success geting Ubuntu up and running on Apple's M1 ARM hardware with using the Apple Hypervisor Framework but it looks like a much better experience is on the way with the forthcoming Parallels Desktop for Apple Silicon...

Linux 5.10 As An LTS Kernel Comes Just In Time For AMD EPYC "Milan"

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 04:30
AMD noted that EPYC Milan "Zen 3" server processors would be shipping to select customers this quarter ahead of the formal launch in Q1. That's accurate with at least one enterprise now making public inquiries over Linux kernel versions for the EPYC 7003 series. The recent Linux 5.10 kernel debut being a Long-Term Support (LTS) release is coming just in time for those users...

Wine 6.0-RC3 Released With Another 19 Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 03:02
The third weekly release candidate of Wine 6.0 ahead of the stable release expected in January...

XWayland 21.1 Proposed In Splitting Off Releases From The X.Org Server

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 02:00
With no new X.Org Server releases on the horizon but Red Hat / Fedora wanting to ship updated XWayland support that is developed as part of the X.Org Server code-base, Red Hat engineers are now stepping up to carry out such XWayland-only releases derived from the same source tree but stripping out the code not relevant to XWayland support...

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