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Ubuntu Is Looking At Offering Better WiFi Support By Using Intel's IWD

Phoronix - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 00:11
Ubuntu developers are looking at using Intel IWD as the iNET wireless daemon to potentially replace WPA_Supplicant for offering a better WiFi experience...

Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q3 Released For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 08/12/2020 - 21:55
AMD has released their Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q3 driver as their quarterly update to this enterprise-rated driver for their professional/workstation graphics offerings. In step with the new Windows driver release is also the 20.Q3 packaged Linux driver for enterprise distributions including RHEL/CentOS 8.1, RHEL/CentOS 7.8, Ubuntu 18.04.4, and SUSE SLED/SLES 15...

Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Adds Compute Kernel Support In Mesa 20.3

Phoronix - Wed, 08/12/2020 - 21:06
While Mesa 20.2 isn't even releasing for a few weeks, Mesa 20.3 is already seeing new feature work that will debut next quarter...

QEMU 5.1 Release Brings Many Improvements To This Open-Source Virtualization Component

Phoronix - Wed, 08/12/2020 - 19:05
QEMU 5.1 is now available for this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

LibreOffice 7.0 Is Already Approaching A Half-Million Downloads

Phoronix - Wed, 08/12/2020 - 18:56
It was just one week ago that LibreOffice 7.0 was released and it has already seen around a half-million downloads for this leading open-source, cross-platform office suite...

Red Hat Begins Talking Up The New RHEL Flatpak Runtime

Phoronix - Wed, 08/12/2020 - 18:48
With the recently released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2, the Flatpak sandboxing and app distribution tech is ready to shine and there is also the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux Flatpak runtime...

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