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Chrome 88 Released With Security Fixes, Adobe Flash Removed

Phoronix - Wed, 01/20/2021 - 04:05
Google has released Chrome 88 as the latest stable version of their cross-platform web browser...

Fedora 34 Cleared For Btrfs Zstd Compression By Default, DNF/RPM Copy-On-Write

Phoronix - Wed, 01/20/2021 - 03:33
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee has unanimously approved several high profile features for the upcoming Fedora 34...

XanMod's Linux 5.10 Kernel Helping Tap Extra Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

Phoronix - Wed, 01/20/2021 - 00:57
For those wondering how the likes of the XanMod and Liquorix kernel spins are competing these days with the mainline Linux kernel, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at these popular derivatives of the Linux kernel. XanMod in particular atop Ubuntu can easily help squeeze extra performance out of the system as shown by these benchmarks on an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X desktop.

GNOME 40 Will Now Handle XWayland On-Demand By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 01/19/2021 - 22:36
Back in 2019 support was added to GNOME 3.34 to allow starting XWayland on-demand. With this opt-in feature, XWayland support would only be started up when needed (on-demand) for running X11 clients. That support has now matured enough where for the upcoming GNOME 40 it will be enabled by default...

Pioneer DJM-750 DJ Mixer Handling For Linux Is En Route

Phoronix - Tue, 01/19/2021 - 20:28
With Linux 5.11 came Pioneer DDJ-RR DJ controller support while for Linux 5.12 additional Pioneer DJ equipment will be supported...

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