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Btrfs With Linux 5.16 Seeing More Performance Optimizations, NVMe ZNS

Phoronix - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 19:23
The Btrfs file-system continues seeing new performance optimizations and other work, thanks in part to the renewed interest around the file-system with Fedora Workstation continuing to use it by default along with openSUSE and other Linux distributions...

Vulkan 1.2.197 Released With Dynamic Rendering Extension

Phoronix - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 19:02
Vulkan 1.2.197 is out with a variety of documentation updates, clarifications to the specification, and other work. Plus there is one new extension this time around...

Linux 5.16 Networking Changes Are Quite Busy From New Drivers To Intel 100G Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 18:00
Given the wide range of hardware running Linux and especially Linux being dominant in the data center, the networking changes each kernel cycle remain quite vibrant. Linux 5.16 is no exception with the main feature pull sent in on Monday for all the networking updates...

4 ways to edit photos on the Linux command line

opensource.com - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 15:01

Linux is useful to photographers and graphic artists. It provides many tools for editing different types of image files and formats, including photographs. This roundup shows that you do not even need a graphical interface to work with your photos. Here are four ways that you can edit images at the command line.


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