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Intel Has A New Driver For Linux 5.12: Reporting Your Laptop's Hinge/Keyboard Angle

Phoronix - Sun, 01/24/2021 - 19:40
Intel's latest open-source Linux driver contribution is a hinge driver that is set to debut with Linux 5.12...

GTK4 Toolkit Seeing More Improvements To Its OpenGL Renderer

Phoronix - Sun, 01/24/2021 - 16:33
While GTK 4.0 has been released, there still is major work to look forward to with future GTK4 releases. One area seeing recent and ongoing improvements is with the toolkit's OpenGL renderer...

How open source is helping solve the plastic pollution problem

opensource.com - Sun, 01/24/2021 - 16:01

In my work life, I often deal with geospatial data. This data not only carries the customary sorts of attributes we see every day but also geographic attributes, like points, lines, enclosed areas, polygons, and surfaces. This data is typically projected from latitude, longitude, and sea-level-elevation data to other coordinate systems to facilitate analysis and viewing.


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3 stress-free steps to tackling your task list

opensource.com - Sun, 01/24/2021 - 16:00

In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 14 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021.


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GCC's JIT Library Is No Longer Considered "Alpha" Quality

Phoronix - Sun, 01/24/2021 - 13:15
With the upcoming GCC 11 compiler release the GNU compiler's just-in-time (JIT) library is no longer considered to be of alpha quality...

Nouveau X.Org Driver Sees First Release In Two Years

Phoronix - Sun, 01/24/2021 - 09:08
Two years and nine patches later, xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.17 is out as the latest X.Org driver update for this open-source NVIDIA driver component...

Linux 5.12 To Allow Voltage/Temperature Reporting On Some ASRock Motherboards

Phoronix - Sun, 01/24/2021 - 02:43
Voltage, temperature, and fan speed reporting among desktop motherboards under Linux remains one of the unfortunate areas even in 2021... Many SIO ICs remain publicly undocumented and the Linux driver support is often left up to the community and usually through reverse-engineering. Thus the mainline Linux kernel support is left to suffer especially among newer desktop motherboards. At least for Linux 5.12 some ASRock motherboards will begin seeing their voltage/temperature reporting now function...

The First Online Conference Is Happening Today For The Godot Game Engine

Phoronix - Sat, 01/23/2021 - 21:00
For those interested in Godot as the premiere open-source 2D/3D game engine or just looking for some interesting technical talks to enjoy this weekend, the first GodotCon Online is today...

The State of GNOME 40's Threaded Input

Phoronix - Sat, 01/23/2021 - 20:29
One of many improvements we have been looking forward to with GNOME 40 is Mutter now having a separate input thread with its native back-end for Wayland...

KDE Saw Many Fixes + Improvements On Top Of Shipping Plasma 5.21 Beta

Phoronix - Sat, 01/23/2021 - 19:14
In addition to shipping the Plasma 5.21 beta this week, KDE developers were very active in not only working out fixes for next month's Plasma 5.21 desktop but also other improvements to KDE applications...

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