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How to Resolve “Temporary failure in name resolution” Issue

Tecmint - Fri, 10/16/2020 - 13:00

Sometimes when you try to ping a website, update a system or perform any task that requires an active internet connection, you may get the error message ‘temporary failure in name resolution’ on your

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JACK2 Audio Server Rolls Out Better Windows + macOS Support

Phoronix - Fri, 10/16/2020 - 12:02
JACK2 1.9.15 released on Thursday as the newest version of this professional-minded sound server focused on real-time, low-latency connections...

F2FS With Linux 5.10 Brings Many Improvements And A Few More Features

Phoronix - Fri, 10/16/2020 - 08:35
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) that is of growing prominence on Android-powered mobile phones and other flash-storage-only Linux systems has some promising improvements with Linux 5.10...

Valve/CodeWeavers Releases Proton 5.13-1 With More Windows Games Running On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 10/16/2020 - 04:46
The Wine-based Proton development has been disappointingly quiet in recent weeks but fortunately it's alive and ticking with today's Proton 5.13-1 release for powering Valve's Steam Play to run many modern Windows games gracefully on Linux...

Chrome 87 Beta Brings Further FTP Deprecation, Cookie Store API

Phoronix - Fri, 10/16/2020 - 02:51
Following last week's release of Chrome 86, Google has promoted its Chrome 87 web browser to beta...

Intel Finally Kills Gen10/Cannonlake-Specific Graphics Code From Their Linux Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 10/16/2020 - 01:22
Given that Intel never shipped a production "Cannon Lake" CPU with its Gen10 graphics enabled, Intel's open-source driver developers have finally removed all Gen10-specific code from their Linux OpenGL/Vulkan drivers in Mesa...

KWinFT 5.20 With Aims For Better Wayland/X11 Experience Than KDE Plasma 5.20's KWin

Phoronix - Thu, 10/15/2020 - 23:24
Following this week's KDE Plasma 5.20 release, KWinFT 5.20 has been released as the fork of KWin and other select components in aiming to offer a better experience...

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