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Canonical Is Using Mir To Bring Flutter To Wayland

Phoronix - Sun, 07/12/2020 - 18:48
This week Canonical and Google announced they were working together to bring the Flutter application toolkit to Ubuntu/Linux. Flutter is the cross-platform, open-source UI toolkit developed by Google for use from Android to Linux and iOS and Fuschia as well as for web interfaces...

Linux 5.9 Will Finally Offer Proper Support For The ThinkPad 10 Ultrabook Keyboard

Phoronix - Sun, 07/12/2020 - 18:01
While Lenovo recently committed to certifying more systems for Linux use and upstreaming drivers / hardware support for Linux moving forward, there remains a backlog of existing Lenovo devices that still have less than desire Linux support. But thanks to Red Hat and others, the hardware support does continue advancing...

Recovering audio from a lost format with open source

opensource.com - Sun, 07/12/2020 - 15:00

Back in the early 2000s, we made a family decision to upgrade the living room stereo. The equipment in place at the time was based on a collection of gear that I had purchased some 20 years earlier when I first had a steady post-university income.


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Linus Torvalds: "I Hope AVX512 Dies A Painful Death"

Phoronix - Sun, 07/12/2020 - 08:39
Linux creator Linus Torvalds had some choice words today on Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) found on select Intel processors...

Synopsys DesignWare ARC HS CPUs Now Supported By GNU C Library

Phoronix - Sat, 07/11/2020 - 23:34
The toolchain support for the Synopsys DesignWare ARC HS processors is now ironed out with the GNU C Library (glibc) finally mainlining the ARC port...

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