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AMD Sends In Navy Flounder Support, More Sienna Cichlid For Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2020 - 18:46
At the end of June was the first batch of AMDGPU changes queued for DRM-Next to in turn go into the Linux 5.9 kernel when that cycle opens up in August. On Friday a second batch of feature changes for this open-source AMD Radeon kernel graphics driver was submitted...

KDE Developers Beating The Summer Heat By Fixing Up Recent Regressions

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2020 - 18:35
This week KDE developers have seen a lot of bug and regression fixes materialize for Plasma and other components...

Git 2.28-rc1 Released - Continues The Transition Towards SHA256 Plus Moving Off "Master"

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2020 - 16:19
Git 2.28-rc1 was released on Friday in stepping towards the next feature release for this widely-used, distributed revision control system...

How to Install Fedora 32 Alongside With Windows 10 in Dual-Boot

Tecmint - Sat, 07/18/2020 - 15:06
This tutorial will guide you on how to install Fedora 32 Workstation in dual boot with Microsoft Windows 10 Operating System pre-installed on a BIOS firmware machine. If your computer has no pre-installed operating

LibreOffice 7.0 RC2 Released For This Vulkan-Supported Open-Source Office Suite

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2020 - 13:58
Ahead of the official release expected in early August, the second release candidate of LibreOffice 7.0 is now available for testing...

Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Enables Working FP16 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2020 - 12:02
The Panfrost Gallium3D driver providing open-source OpenGL driver support for Arm Mali Midgard and Bifrost hardware has another feature tacked on as of Friday night...

Wine 5.13 Released - Fixes 15 Year Old Bug To Support Windows NT INI Files To Registry Re-Mapping

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2020 - 06:03
Wine is out with its latest bi-weekly development summer blend for running Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms...

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