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Sailfish OS 3.4 Released With Experimental Rust Support, Finally Eyeing 64-bit ARM

Phoronix - Tue, 10/13/2020 - 21:26
It's been a while since having any major news to report on the once promising mobile Linux software platform Sailfish OS from Finnish vendor Jolla, but today they issued a big update in the form of "Pallas-Yllästunturi" or more easily known as Sailfish OS 3.4...

KDE Plasma 5.20 Released With Better Wayland Support, Many New Features

Phoronix - Tue, 10/13/2020 - 20:46
KDE's Plasma 5.20 is now available as a seriously great update to this open-source desktop environment...

Krita 4.4 Released With Multi-Threading For Fill Layers

Phoronix - Tue, 10/13/2020 - 19:41
Krita 4.4 is out today as the latest release for this flagship open-source digital painting program...

CUPS Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingly Dried Up

Phoronix - Tue, 10/13/2020 - 18:43
At the end of 2019 the lead developer of CUPS left Apple after he joined Apple and the company purchased the source code a decade prior for this long-standing open-source printing system used by not only macOS but also Linux and other Unix-like platforms. This unfortunately has not bode well for CUPS in 2020...

Hardware Monitoring Updates For Linux 5.10 Are Led By AMD Zen 3 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 10/13/2020 - 18:10
The hardware monitoring "hwmon" subsystem maintainer Guenter Roeck sent in the feature updates on Monday to Linux 5.10...

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