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Fedora 33 Released With Workstation Using Btrfs By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 10/27/2020 - 22:06
Fedora 33 has just been released as the last major update to this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution for 2020...

AMD To Acquire Xilinx In $35 Billion Stock Deal

Phoronix - Tue, 10/27/2020 - 19:00
Following the rumors earlier this month that AMD was in talks to acquire Xilinx, a deal has been announced this morning...

Linux 5.11 To Bring Early Bits Around DisplayPort 2.0, Orphans The Frame-Buffer Layer

Phoronix - Tue, 10/27/2020 - 18:52
While Linux 5.10-rc1 was just released two days ago, the first pull request to DRM-Next of various changes was submitted today in beginning to stage material for inclusion with next year's Linux 5.11 kernel release...

The 2020 State Of Wayland Support For Chrome/Chromium - Aiming For H2'2021 Default

Phoronix - Tue, 10/27/2020 - 18:32
At this week's virtual Embedded Linux Conference was a talk on Monday by Igalia engineer Maksim Sisov as to the state of native Wayland support for the open-source Chromium web browser and in turn Google Chrome...

LibreOffice 7.1 Alpha Is Up For Testing

Phoronix - Tue, 10/27/2020 - 15:35
While LibreOffice 7.0 was just released back in August, LibreOffice 7.1 is now in alpha as the first step towards this next open-source office suite release...

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