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GNOME Shell UX Continues Improving For GNOME 40

Phoronix - Sun, 12/20/2020 - 04:16
The pandemic isn't slowing down work on GNOME 40... In addition to this week's release of GTK 4.0, GNOME Shell developers continue progressing on some visible improvements slated for this 2021 desktop update...

Intel ISPC 1.15 Released With Support For Sapphire Rapids, Alder Lake

Phoronix - Sun, 12/20/2020 - 03:13
Intel released a new version of their SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) this weekend that brings new improvements for this compiler that supports a variant of C focused on single-program, multiple-data programming for Intel's CPU and GPU targets...

MIPI I3C Host Controller Interface Driver Comes To Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Sun, 12/20/2020 - 00:11
Announced back in 2018 by the MIPI Alliance was the I3C Host Controller Interface (HCI) 1.0 specification whereby a common I3C HCI driver could support a range of multi-vendor sensors and other components relying on I3C...

Red Hat Continues Pleading The Case For Its CentOS Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 22:47
Taking many by surprise was the news last week of CentOS 8 being EOL'ed next year as what has been a popular downstream of Red Hat Entrprise Linux that is free of charge and often adapted for use within large organizations. Instead, IBM-owned Red Hat is looking to position CentOS "Stream" in front of RHEL as its upstream. That still isn't sitting over well for many and today is a new post on the CentOS Blog...

FUSE, OverlayFS, Ceph Ready With Improvements For Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 21:09
This first week of the Linux 5.11 merge window continues to be very active with many of the kernel maintainers looking to land their changes ahead of the Christmas week where they are often taking time off work...

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...

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