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Wine 5.14 Brings Initial Version Of The Webdings Font

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 19:03
Wine 5.14 debuted late on Friday night as the newest bi-weekly development release with being less than a half-year to go now until the debut of Wine 6.0 stable...

Wayland-Utils 1.0 Relased As New Utility Package For Wayland Tools

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 15:03
In addition to the Weston 9.0 Alpha compositor, this week also brought Wayland-Utils 1.0 as the inaugural release for this collection of Wayland utilities/tools...

8 tips for running a virtual hackathon

opensource.com - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 15:00

Hackathons are events where developers, product managers, designers, and others come together to tackle problems over a short time period. They have become increasingly popular over the last 15 years after OpenBSD ran the first hackathon in June 1999.

These events provide several benefits—greater engagement across the community, innovation and new ideas, awareness for the organizers, and networking opportunities for participants.


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Setting Up Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) on RHEL/CentOS 7/8

Tecmint - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 14:31
Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is an Open Source, collaborative platform for email servers, developed in two editions, Open Source edition (Free) and Network Edition (Paid), which provides services such as LDAP, SMTP, POP and

The Beautiful + Linux-Friendly Unigine 2.12 Engine Released

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 12:08
The Unigine Engine appears to be having great success in the engineering and simulation space more so than for the competitive game engine space, but in any case Unigine 2.12 is now out with this visually stunning engine delivering even more life-like visuals while continuing to be Linux-friendly...

MoltenVK Update Brings Vulkan To Apple's tvOS

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 08:47
The open-source MoltenVK portability layer has already been providing Vulkan support on Apple iOS and macOS by re-mapping the Vulkan API to Apple's Metal graphics framework. With today's upate, Vulkan has now come to tvOS as well...

Intel Brings IBM POWER CPU Support To Their Deep Neural Network Library

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 07:08
Besides the code itself to Intel's oneAPI being open-source, the company is being surprisingly open about its support even for areas of usage outside of x86_64 CPUs...

Linux's exFAT File-System Driver Can Now "FSCK" As Fast As Windows

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 06:52
Samsung engineers responsible for the modern exFAT file-system driver for Linux have updated the adjoining "exfatprogs" user-space programs around this file-system. Notable to exfatprogs-1.0.4 is much faster "fsck" file-system checking support...

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