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Ubuntu Maker Canonical Planning To Vastly Improve Its Documentation

Phoronix - Wed, 11/17/2021 - 22:00
Back in the day Ubuntu's Wiki was a great resource for Linux documentation but less so these days while the Arch Linux Wiki is often viewed as a gold standard for open-source documentation. Canonical though is now hoping to radically improve the documentation for Ubuntu and its other software offerings...

Copper Aims To Improve Mesa's Zink Efficiency In 2022

Phoronix - Wed, 11/17/2021 - 21:32
Following the news from last week of experimental Zink code running Wayland's Weston compositor over this Mesa-based OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation, developer Mike Blumenkrantz has opened up about some of the ongoing work to improve the efficiency of Zink and making such advancements a reality...

Linux 5.17 To Support Temperature Monitoring For New AMD Zen Generation

Phoronix - Wed, 11/17/2021 - 19:07
The Linux 5.17 kernel next year will support temperature monitoring for a "new generation" of AMD Zen processors...

NVIDIA Looks To Improve Power Management For Linux VFIO PCIe Devices

Phoronix - Wed, 11/17/2021 - 18:50
NVIDIA is looking to enable run-time power management for the VFIO PCI Linux driver to allow for better power-savings...

Sound Open Firmware For AMD Audio Hardware Arrives, Initially For Renoir ACP

Phoronix - Wed, 11/17/2021 - 18:28
Back in 2018 Intel founded Sound Open Firmware as their effort to provide an open-source audio DSP firmware and software development kit. AMD has begun supporting Sound Open Firmware too now, initially for the Renoir audio co-processor (ACP)...

3 interesting ways to use the Linux cowsay command

opensource.com - Wed, 11/17/2021 - 16:00

Most of the time, a terminal is a productivity powerhouse. But there's more to the terminal than commands and configurations. Among all the outstanding open source software out there, some of it has been written just for fun. I've written about fun commands before, but this article is about just one: the venerable cowsay command.


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