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KDE Lands More Crash Fixes, Activities Feature Working On Wayland

Phoronix - Sat, 04/10/2021 - 18:00
It's been another week of fixes and feature work for the KDE desktop as the march continues toward the Plasma 5.22 release this summer...

5 signs you're a groff programmer

opensource.com - Sat, 04/10/2021 - 15:00

I first discovered Unix systems in the early 1990s, when I was an undergraduate at university. I liked it so much that I replaced the MS-DOS system on my home computer with the Linux operating system.


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Radeon Vulkan Driver Adds Option Of Rendering Less For ~30% Greater Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 04/10/2021 - 12:00
If your current Vulkan-based Radeon Linux gaming performance isn't cutting it and a new GPU is out of your budget or you have been unable to find a desired GPU upgrade in stock, the Mesa RADV driver has added an option likely of interest to you... Well, at least moving forward with this feature being limited to RDNA2 GPUs for now...

Wine 6.6 Released With Better Plug & Play Driver Support

Phoronix - Sat, 04/10/2021 - 05:05
Wine 6.6 is out as the open-source project's first release of April for running Windows games and applications primarily on Linux and macOS platforms. With Wine 6.6 comes more feature work that will ultimately be incorporated into the Wine 7.0 release due out in early 2022...

X.Org Server Git Lands Support For Hardware-Accelerated XWayland With NVIDIA

Phoronix - Fri, 04/09/2021 - 23:24
The NVIDIA-led work to allow XWayland OpenGL and Vulkan acceleration with their proprietary driver has just been merged into X.Org Server Git...

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