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Linus Torvalds Calls On Paragon To Send In The New NTFS Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 07/18/2021 - 00:06
One year ago was the surprise of Paragon Software wanting to mainline their NTFS Linux kernel driver. The Paragon "NTFS3" kernel driver provides much better read/write support for Microsoft's NTFS file-system than what is available with other kernel or FUSE options for this file-system support on Linux. It looks like this driver might finally be mainlined soon...

AMD Pushes Improvements To Help Debug S0ix Power States On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 07/17/2021 - 19:13
AMD's PMC Linux driver with Linux 5.15 is expected to offer more debugging information for diagnosing S0ix power states behavior to analyze if an AMD SoC is hitting or not the desired low-power states...

KDE's KWin Reworks Its DRM Code, Many Other Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 07/17/2021 - 18:03
In between celebrating the fact that Valve's newly announced Steam Deck runs KDE Plasma when exiting the Steam confines, KDE developers had a very busy week with a number of different improvements to their open-source desktop...

How to avoid waste when writing code

opensource.com - Sat, 07/17/2021 - 15:00

The long road toward quality is filled with diversions, false starts, and detours. The enemy of quality is waste, because waste is never desirable. No one pays anyone to deliver waste. We sometimes tolerate waste as part of the process of making something useful and desirable, but the more we can reduce waste while making something, the better.

In software engineering, waste can be expressed in a few ways:


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O3DE Game Engine Seeing Progress On Linux Editor

Phoronix - Sat, 07/17/2021 - 02:39
The Open 3D Engine spun out of Amazon's Lumberyard game engine has been seeing progress on Vulkan 1.2 API work as well as Linux porting at large, including the bringing up of the game engine's editor on Linux...

KWinFT Lands Code To Now Use WLROOTS For Wayland

Phoronix - Sat, 07/17/2021 - 02:24
The KWinFT fork of KDE's KWin compositor has landed its support for using the WLROOTS Wayland library...

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