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Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate Emerges For This Excellent Vector Graphics Editor

Phoronix - Mon, 04/13/2020 - 21:52
The release candidate to the long-awaited Inkscape 1.0 emerged at the end of last week for this popular cross-platform SVG/vector graphics editor...

ASUS Releases Graphics Card That Could Actually Be Great For Open-Source NVIDIA Fans

Phoronix - Mon, 04/13/2020 - 20:24
ASUS has released a new budget graphics card that could actually be great for those wanting to use the open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver stack on Linux...

Intel DPTF Adaptive Policy Being Reverse Engineered For Better Linux Ultrabook Support

Phoronix - Mon, 04/13/2020 - 19:45
One of the areas of Intel's Linux support that has been less than ideal is their handling of the Dynamic Platform and Thermal Framework (DPTF) for today's ultrabook. Intel has provided some support with a focus on Google's Chromium OS but it's less than complete and notably missing is support for the more advanced "adaptive policy", but that soon could change...

ZFS/Zsys Code Seeing Important Performance Fix Ahead Of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Phoronix - Mon, 04/13/2020 - 19:13
One of the new features to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for those making use of ZFS On Linux with Canonical's Zsys manager is the automated APT snapshots on package transactions to be able to carry out system rollbacks if needed. An important fix around this functionality is on the way...

Linux 5.7-rc1 Marks More Than 915k Commits, 28.4 Million Lines In Source Tree

Phoronix - Mon, 04/13/2020 - 16:42
With yesterday's release of Linux 5.7-rc1 following the two week period of Linux 5.7 tacking on many interesting improvements and new features, here is a look at the current Git development states on the Linux kernel...

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