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KDE Plasma 5.20 To Bring Working Screen Recording / Screencasting On Wayland

Phoronix - Sat, 07/25/2020 - 18:21
KDE Plasma 5.20 is bringing an important feature in further closing the gap between Wayland and X11 feature parity... Finally there will be working screen recording and screencasting on Wayland for compatible applications...

GitHub stores open source code in an Arctic Code Vault, Linux Foundation launches public health initiative, and more open source news

opensource.com - Sat, 07/25/2020 - 15:00

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, Power BI releases a new React component, GitHub completes its Arctic Code Vault project, and more open source news.


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Sony Provides Patch To Linux 5.9 For Allowing Further Access Restrictions On DebugFS

Phoronix - Sat, 07/25/2020 - 12:00
A patch queued up into the driver core tree ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.9 kernel will allow further restricting access to DebugFS...

The Linux Kernel Begins Preparing Support For SD Express Cards

Phoronix - Sat, 07/25/2020 - 08:20
Announced earlier this year was the SD Express specification offering around 4x the speed of existing SD cards thanks to leveraging PCI Express 4.0 (or otherwise PCI Express 3.0 fallback) and the NVMe 1.4 protocol. The Linux kernel has begun preparing for SD Express compatibility...

Nouveau Changes For Linux 5.9 Bring Fixes, Prep For Future Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 07/25/2020 - 03:51
With basically at the cut-off for new feature material wanting to get into DRM-Next for Linux 5.9, Nouveau DRM maintainer Ben Skeggs of Red Hat today sent in the primary feature pull...

Intel Core i5 10600K Comet Lake vs. Core i5 Skylake / Haswell / Sandy Bridge

Phoronix - Sat, 07/25/2020 - 02:15
As some additional Core i5 10600K Linux benchmarks for historical perspective, here is a look at how the Core i5 10600K looks in comparison to the Core i5 7600K Skylake, Core i5 4670 Haswell, and Core i5 2500K Sandy Bridge processors on Ubuntu Linux. There were 250 benchmarks ran on each of the CPUs under test.

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