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How to cope with virtual meeting fatigue

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

Throughout much of 2020, virtual meetings have been a major part of our lives. This is new for many of us—while we may have participated in webinars or other virtual meetings on occasion, we have never relied on our webcams for doing our day-to-day work.


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Maple Tree "RFC" Patches Sent Out As New Data Structure To Help With Linux Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 12/12/2020 - 13:00
For over the past year there has been work on the new "Maple Tree" data structure led by Oracle for the Linux kernel and this week marked the patches being sent out in "request for comments" (RFC) form with the aim still on helping the kernel performance...

Wine 6.0-RC2 Released With 40 More Bugs Fixed

Phoronix - Sat, 12/12/2020 - 05:20
Following last week's Wine 6.0-RC1 release that marked the feature freeze and start of the release process for the annual stable Wine release, Wine 6.0-RC2 is out today with the latest assortment of fixes...

CUPS' Founder Releases PAPPL 1.0 As Modern Printer Application Framework

Phoronix - Sat, 12/12/2020 - 03:42
Just one week shy of one year since CUPS founder Michael Sweet left Apple, which in turn seemingly led to the downfall of CUPS, PAPPL 1.0 has been released as his modern alternative printer application framework...

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X On Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance: Windows Looks Surprisingly Good This Time

Phoronix - Fri, 12/11/2020 - 23:30
For those curious how the AMD Zen 3 performance is looking between Windows and Linux, here are the first round of benchmarks with a Ryzen 9 5900X system.

KDE Plasma's KWin Working On Per-Screen Refresh Rates, Compositing From Multiple Threads

Phoronix - Fri, 12/11/2020 - 21:53
KDE Plasma users will hopefully be seeing the KWin Wayland compositor perform better and more reliably in 2021...

Some Of The Features You Can Expect To See With Linux 5.11: Lots From AMD, Intel

Phoronix - Fri, 12/11/2020 - 20:00
The Linux 5.10 kernel is expected to be released this Sunday that will in turn start the Linux 5.11 merge window. Based on the material queued so far into the various "-next" branches, here is a look at what should be on the table for this next major kernel release and come February will be the first major kernel release of 2021...

Classic OSMesa Retires In Mesa 21.0 As The Worst Of The Software Rendering Paths

Phoronix - Fri, 12/11/2020 - 19:24
While working on some core Mesa cleaning/improvements, Eric Anholt has retired the classic OSMesa support in next quarter's Mesa 21.0...

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