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Setting Up Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) on RHEL/CentOS 7/8

Tecmint - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 14:31
Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is an Open Source, collaborative platform for email servers, developed in two editions, Open Source edition (Free) and Network Edition (Paid), which provides services such as LDAP, SMTP, POP and

The Beautiful + Linux-Friendly Unigine 2.12 Engine Released

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 12:08
The Unigine Engine appears to be having great success in the engineering and simulation space more so than for the competitive game engine space, but in any case Unigine 2.12 is now out with this visually stunning engine delivering even more life-like visuals while continuing to be Linux-friendly...

MoltenVK Update Brings Vulkan To Apple's tvOS

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 08:47
The open-source MoltenVK portability layer has already been providing Vulkan support on Apple iOS and macOS by re-mapping the Vulkan API to Apple's Metal graphics framework. With today's upate, Vulkan has now come to tvOS as well...

Intel Brings IBM POWER CPU Support To Their Deep Neural Network Library

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 07:08
Besides the code itself to Intel's oneAPI being open-source, the company is being surprisingly open about its support even for areas of usage outside of x86_64 CPUs...

Linux's exFAT File-System Driver Can Now "FSCK" As Fast As Windows

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 06:52
Samsung engineers responsible for the modern exFAT file-system driver for Linux have updated the adjoining "exfatprogs" user-space programs around this file-system. Notable to exfatprogs-1.0.4 is much faster "fsck" file-system checking support...

Eight Great Features Of Linux 5.8

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 01:00
If all goes well the Linux 5.8 kernel will be released as stable this weekend. Linus Torvalds last weekend expressed some uncertainty whether an extra release candidate would be required, but so far this week the kernel Git activity is light, thus for the moment at least is looking like 5.8 will be christened on Sunday...

"Speakup" Promoted Out Of Staging For Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Fri, 07/31/2020 - 23:34
The Speakup screen reader that is built into the kernel and allows for speaking all text printed to the text console from boot-up to shutdown for assisting blind individuals is now being promoted out of staging with Linux 5.9...

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