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Linux 5.10 As An LTS Kernel Comes Just In Time For AMD EPYC "Milan"

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 04:30
AMD noted that EPYC Milan "Zen 3" server processors would be shipping to select customers this quarter ahead of the formal launch in Q1. That's accurate with at least one enterprise now making public inquiries over Linux kernel versions for the EPYC 7003 series. The recent Linux 5.10 kernel debut being a Long-Term Support (LTS) release is coming just in time for those users...

Wine 6.0-RC3 Released With Another 19 Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 03:02
The third weekly release candidate of Wine 6.0 ahead of the stable release expected in January...

XWayland 21.1 Proposed In Splitting Off Releases From The X.Org Server

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 02:00
With no new X.Org Server releases on the horizon but Red Hat / Fedora wanting to ship updated XWayland support that is developed as part of the X.Org Server code-base, Red Hat engineers are now stepping up to carry out such XWayland-only releases derived from the same source tree but stripping out the code not relevant to XWayland support...

Better WebRTC Support Is Coming To Chrome/Chromium For Benefiting Wayland Screen Sharing

Phoronix - Sat, 12/19/2020 - 00:19
In recent years Red Hat engineers have been contributing to WebRTC in Chromium and related projects as part of Wayland screen sharing support that also works with the likes of PipeWire and XDG-Desktop-Portal. Looking forward to 2021, more WebRTC improvements in Chromium/Chrome are on the way...

OpenRISC + RISC-V Improvements Come For Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Fri, 12/18/2020 - 22:41
The OpenRISC and RISC-V processor architecture updates have both been submitted for the ongoing Linux 5.11 merge window...

Qt Design Studio 2.0, Qt Creator 4.14 Released

Phoronix - Fri, 12/18/2020 - 20:50
Following last week's release of Qt 6.0, The Qt Company has now released Qt Creator 4.14 and Qt Design Studio 2.0 as accompanying assets...

Intel Workload Hints, Zen RAPL PowerCap + Other Power/Thermal Changes For Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Fri, 12/18/2020 - 19:43
The ACPI / power management and thermal pull requests were all sent out and merged this week for the ongoing Linux 5.11 development...

The xf86-video-intel Zombie Driver Finally Flips On TearFree To Avoid Tearing

Phoronix - Fri, 12/18/2020 - 16:33
It's been seven years since Intel last provided a stable release of their "xf86-video-intel" X.Org driver and nearly six years to the day since they even provided their last development snapshot of what was to be xf86-video-intel 3.0. But there still are the occasional commits to this Intel DDX driver such as this week enabling the "TearFree" functionality by default...

The role of empathy in DevOps

opensource.com - Fri, 12/18/2020 - 16:01

DevOps teams dig in their heels for strength as they face stress and challenges at work and home. It’s not something covered in the DevOps manifesto. There’s also no software you can integrate into your toolchain to help either. What needs to happen is your DevOps teams need to put empathy before tools.


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Find out how your text will be read with Norka

opensource.com - Fri, 12/18/2020 - 16:00

Some text editors are designed for programming, others for specialized text formats, others for document design. The Norka text editor is designed for reading. It might seem strange to create a text editor designed for reading, but actually, it makes a lot of sense if you think about it. Your text is written once or thrice, depending on your personal tolerance for iteration, but it’s meant to be read for years to come. Norka makes it easy for you to focus on how your writing is going to get read.


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