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KDE Continues Pushing More Wayland Fixes Into Plasma 5.22

Phoronix - Sat, 05/15/2021 - 17:37
While the Plasma 5.22 beta was released this week, it's not game over yet for still getting more fixes into this next KDE desktop release, especially as it concerns their maturing Wayland support...

What Python 3.3 did to improve exception handling in your code

opensource.com - Sat, 05/15/2021 - 15:00

This is the fourth in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Python 3.3 was first released in 2012, and even though it has been out for a long time, many of the features it introduced are underused and pretty cool. Here are three of them.


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Intel Seeks More Comments From Developers On Key Locker Implementation For Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 05/15/2021 - 05:50
One of the features already found in new Intel "Tiger Lake" CPUs but not yet supported by the Linux kernel is Key Locker for securing AES keys on the system. Going back months there has been various patch series working toward Key Locker support while the actual patch series getting things ready for usage was just sent out again under a "request for comments" flag...

Zstd 1.5 Released With Big Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 05/15/2021 - 01:09
Zstd has already been enjoying phenomenal growth throughout the open-source software ecosystem thanks to its feature set and impressive performance, but can it get even better? Yes, with Zstd 1.5 that is out today there are some more mighty impressive performance improvements...

GCC 8.5 Released As The Last GCC 8 Compiler

Phoronix - Fri, 05/14/2021 - 23:21
For those of you still relying on a GCC 8 compiler, it's time to upgrade beyond that considering GCC 11 debuted just several weeks back, but if you are on the 2018 era compiler for enterprise/legacy reasons, GCC 8.5 is out as one last hurrah...

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