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Zaloha.sh – A Simple Local Directory Synchronizer Script for Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 14:59
Zaloha.sh is a tiny and simple shell script used to synchronize two local directories: a source directory and a backup directory. It employs standard Linux/Unix tools such as find, sort, awk, mkdir, rmdir, cp...

Mesa 20.0.1 Released With First Batch Of OpenGL/Vulkan Driver Fixes For The Quarter

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 13:00
Following the release of Mesa 20.0 in mid-February, the first point release to this quarter's Mesa 3D feature series is now available...

GNOME's Genius Math Tool Finally Ported To GTK3

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 08:52
GNOME Genius, one of the oldest GNOME programs and what served as the desktop's original calculator, has finally been ported to GTK3 and seen a new release in 2020...

Samba 4.12 Released With Performance Improvements, IO_uring Support

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 05:14
Samba 4.12 is out this week as a big update to this prominent SMB/CIFS implementation for file exchange and printer sharing predominantly with Microsoft Windows systems...

Wine's Vulkan Code Seeing Performance Improvements, Further Enhancing DXVK

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 02:00
D9VK (now part of DXVK) developer Joshua Ashton has proposed a set of patches to Wine's Vulkan library (Winevulkan) that should help with performance...

Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Seeing New "BIR" Compiler

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 01:34
The Panfrost open-source, reverse-engineered Arm Mali Gallium3D driver is seeing work on a new driver-specific IR and compiler back-end...

FreeNAS + TrueNAS Unifying Into TrueNAS 12.0 CORE/Enterprise

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 00:40
BSD-focused vendor iXsystems has developed FreeNAS as their community-oriented NAS operating system while TrueNAS is what they ship on their storage solutions. FreeNAS and TrueNAS have been derived largely from the same code-base. Moving forward to TrueNAS 12.0 later this year, iXsystems is unifying FreeNAS and TrueNAS...

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