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New report finds automation paves the way for business and technical benefits alike

Red Hat News - Tue, 09/08/2020 - 12:00

Today’s businesses are challenged with moving faster than ever before and often with less resources, both in terms of budget and personnel. The tumultuous landscape and shifting global dynamics that organizations currently face with more workforces moving remote is leading many IT departments to evaluate how they can continue to support their customers and grow their business in uncertain times. 

GNOME Power-Profiles-Daemon Taking Shape For Better System/Laptop Power Controls

Phoronix - Tue, 09/08/2020 - 12:00
The GNOME Power Profiles Daemon (power-profiles-daemon) has begun taking shape over the past few weeks for ultimately allowing better controls over system power preferences with different profiles...

Inkscape 1.0.1 Released With Many Fixes, Experimental Scribus PDF Export

Phoronix - Tue, 09/08/2020 - 08:30
Following the major Inkscape 1.0 release happening back in May for this very popular, cross-platform vector graphics program there is the first point release now available...

KDevelop 5.6 IDE Brings Better Stability, Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 09/08/2020 - 05:21
Version 5.6 of KDevelop as the KDE-focused integrated development environment is now available...

Ubuntu 20.10 Adding Active Directory Support To The Installer

Phoronix - Tue, 09/08/2020 - 00:32
The "Ubiquity" installer used by the Ubuntu desktop is set to feature Active Directory (AD) integration with the upcoming Ubuntu 20.10 release...

V3DV Driver For Raspberry Pi Closing In On Vulkan 1.0

Phoronix - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 23:26
The V3DV open-source Vulkan driver being developed by consulting firm Igalia for the Raspberry Pi Foundation is nearing official support for Vulkan 1.0...

Dynamic Triple Buffering For GNOME Still Being Worked On To Ramp Up The GPU When Needed

Phoronix - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 22:10
Proposed earlier this summer for GNOME's Mutter was the idea of triple buffering the desktop when the GPU is running behind in order to ideally cause that extra load to ramp up the GPU clock frequencies in order to in turn get back on track with rendering the desktop on-time. A third version of that work is now brewing albeit too late to see with the imminent GNOME 3.38.0 release...

AV2 Is In R&D As The Eventual Successor To The AV1 Video Codec

Phoronix - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 21:36
While AV1 adoption is still taking off and finally seeing desktop hardware with AV1 decode, given the time it takes to develop a new high-end video codec it shouldn't come as too much surprise that "AV2" is already being explored...

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