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8 must-have WordPress plugins for virtual classrooms

opensource.com - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 15:00

Once you have WordPress installed, you may be eager to see how you can use it in your school or classroom. As more schools switch to online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic, WordPress is a go-to content management system.


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Linux 5.7-rc6 Released - Torvalds Is Not Entirely Happy Over Its Size

Phoronix - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 08:46
While the past few weeks have seen relatively smaller than usual weekly release candidates, Linux 5.7-rc6 is out this evening and it's bigger than normal...

Enlightenment 0.24 Released

Phoronix - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 05:54
Carsten Haitzler has released Enlightenment 0.24 as the latest significant update to this X11 window manager and Wayland compositor...

Rav1e Sees New Pre-Release With More Speed-Ups, Monochrome Support

Phoronix - Sun, 05/17/2020 - 22:48
Since the release of Rav1e v0.3.1 back in February the "weekly pre-releases" dropped off until this week with there finally being a new tagged milestone...

X-Plane's Vulkan Renderer Maturing, More Performance Optimizations Still Coming

Phoronix - Sun, 05/17/2020 - 20:39
The folks at Laminar Research published a new blog post this week detailing their latest development work on their Vulkan (and Apple Metal) renderers for the realistic X-Plane flight simulator...

Intel CET Support Still Getting Squared Away For Linux In 2020

Phoronix - Sun, 05/17/2020 - 19:55
Various open-source patches have gone back to at least 2017 for enabling Intel's Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) for the Linux kernel and related components. This is the Intel feature for helping prevent ROP and COP/JOP style attacks via indirect branch tracking and a shadow stack. Recently there has been a fair amount of CET improvements to the various open-source components...

Linux Thunderbolt Support Can Work On Arm Systems

Phoronix - Sun, 05/17/2020 - 18:55
While there aren't yet any Arm SoCs we are aware of at least offering Thunderbolt connectivity, that will eventually change with at least USB4 being based on Thunderbolt. But in any case Thunderbolt software support can work on Arm today if using a Thunderbolt add-in PCIe card...

Zstd Compression Under Review For OpenZFS

Phoronix - Sun, 05/17/2020 - 18:38
The ZFS file-system has long offered transparent file-system compression via the likes of LZ4 and Gzip and while now Zstd compression is under review for OpenZFS and seeking testing from the community...

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