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GNOME 40 Will Now Handle XWayland On-Demand By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 01/19/2021 - 22:36
Back in 2019 support was added to GNOME 3.34 to allow starting XWayland on-demand. With this opt-in feature, XWayland support would only be started up when needed (on-demand) for running X11 clients. That support has now matured enough where for the upcoming GNOME 40 it will be enabled by default...

Pioneer DJM-750 DJ Mixer Handling For Linux Is En Route

Phoronix - Tue, 01/19/2021 - 20:28
With Linux 5.11 came Pioneer DDJ-RR DJ controller support while for Linux 5.12 additional Pioneer DJ equipment will be supported...

Linux 5.12 To Add Atomics Support To The Promising eBPF

Phoronix - Tue, 01/19/2021 - 18:52
The eBPF in-kernel virtual machine that allows for handling sandboxed "programs" within the Linux kernel continues on its stellar upward trajectory...

Set up a Linux cloud on bare metal

opensource.com - Tue, 01/19/2021 - 16:00

Virtualization is one of the most used technologies. Fedora Linux uses Cloud Base images to create general-purpose virtual machines (VM), but there are many ways to set up Cloud Base images. Recently, the virt-install command-line tool for provisioning VMs added support for cloud-init, so it can now be used to configure and run a cloud image locally.


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