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KDE's Konsole Continues Seeing New Features

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 01:37
In recent months KDE's Konsole terminal emulator has been seeing a lot of new features while even more are in the works...

WirePlumber Ready For The Linux Desktop As Replacement To PipeWire's Session Manager

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 23:02
Announced earlier this year was WirePlumber as a new session manager for PipeWire with its role in managing of audio/video streams to/from hardware/software components as well as handling security/permissions, device monitoring, and other session management functionality...

QEMU 5.1 Bringing Many CPU Improvements From Loongson To RISC-V To s390

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 19:54
QEMU 5.1-rc0 is available as the first step towards this next feature release of this important component to the Linux virtualization stack...

Intel Gen12 Graphics Bring EU Fusion - EUs Fused In Pairs

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 19:01
While we remain eager to find out more about (and benchmark) Intel Gen12 graphics in Tiger Lake and Xe discrete graphics with this generation bringing the biggest changes to the ISA since i965, Linux patches and bug reports do continue offering new tid-bits of information on Gen12...

"Navy Flounder" Is The Newest AMD Navi 2 GPU Being Added To The Linux Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 18:10
In addition to the "Sienna Cichlid" support recently published for the open-source AMD Radeon Linux kernel graphics driver, there is another new graphics processor being added to their driver: Navy Flounder...

How to Restrict Network Access Using FirewallD

Tecmint - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 17:14
As a Linux user, you can opt either to allow or restrict network access to some services or IP addresses using the firewalld firewall which is native to CentOS/RHEL 8 and most RHEL based

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