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PowerPC Pull Brings 32-Bit Improvements For Linux 5.13 - eBPF + KFENCE

Phoronix - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 19:12
The PowerPC architecture pull request for the Linux 5.13 cycle brings some improvements to its 32-bit support and other enhancements...

GIMP 2.99.6 Released But Still No Idea When GIMP 3.0 Will Be Ready

Phoronix - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 18:13
GIMP 2.99.6 is out today as the latest development release of this popular open-source image manipulation program...

KDE Developers Polish The Desktop Ahead Of Next Month's Plasma 5.22

Phoronix - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 17:55
KDE developers remain very active polishing up the KDE desktop and addressing various bugs ahead of next month's Plasma 5.22 feature release...

My weird jobs before tech

opensource.com - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 15:00

I had a few weird jobs before I hit tech.

I was a junior assistant in an aircraft repair shop, which meant tasks like cleaning dirty metal parts in solvent (wow, things were different back in the '70s). My most fun task there was ironing Dacron aircraft fabric onto the wooden ailerons and horizontal stabilizer on a beautiful old Beechcraft Staggerwing that was in the shop for a rebuild.


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The Top 5 Open-Source Microsoft 365 Alternatives for Linux

Tecmint - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 13:02
The post The Top 5 Open-Source Microsoft 365 Alternatives for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

It’s a well-known fact that Microsoft 365 is the default productivity solution for many companies and its range of features is truly impressive. It includes such functionalities as document editing, real-time collaboration, file sharing,

The post The Top 5 Open-Source Microsoft 365 Alternatives for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Wine 6.8 Released With Support For Loading Libraries From Arch-Specific Subdirectories

Phoronix - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 04:55
Wine 6.8 was just released as the newest bi-weekly development snapshot providing the latest support for running the latest Windows games and applications under Linux, macOS, and BSD systems...

Windows 10 Build 21370 vs. Ubuntu 21.04 Linux On AMD Ryzen 5900X

Phoronix - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 01:52
Last month when carrying out tests of Windows 10 vs. Linux on the Intel Core i9 11900K "Rocket Lake" processor we were very surprised to see Windows 10 frankly performing so well compared to Ubuntu and picking up more wins than usual. That unexpectedly strong showing for Windows 10 might be due to Intel's P-State behavior with Rocket Lake or other power management tuning or there the lack of on Linux at this time. But it led me to wondering if the latest Windows 10 updates spelled out anything different on the AMD Ryzen side... So here are some benchmarks of the latest Microsoft Windows 10 against Ubuntu 21.04 on the same AMD Ryzen 9 5900X system.

eBPF - Linux Journal

Google News - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 00:28
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