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Intel Media Driver Q2-2020 Ships With Better Tiger Lake Support

Phoronix - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 19:17
Intel has shipped its second quarter open-source Media Driver release that provides accelerated video encoding/decoding capabilities on Linux systems...

More Accurate Load Tracking Being Worked On For the ACPI CPPC CPUFreq Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 19:04
The ACPI CPPC (Collaborative Processor Performance Control) Linux CPUFreq driver continues to be improved upon...

Wayland-Info Spun From Weston Code For Offering Wayland Helper Tool

Phoronix - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 15:12
Wayland's Weston compositor has provided a weston-info utility to display information on supported Wayland extensions and versioning along with other details of the Wayland compositor environment. That utility is now being spun out as wayland-info as a Wayland compositor-agnostic utility for displaying this information...

Add videos as wallpaper on your Linux desktop

opensource.com - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 15:02

The Linux desktop is a beautiful thing, but if you're tired of boring wallpaper, then you should try wallset, a command-line utility allowing you to set a video as your wallpaper. Wallset can also help you manage your wallpaper collection so you can conveniently make changes as often as you want.

Installation

First, you must have the following software installed on your system:


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How open source will affect the future of our energy use

opensource.com - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 15:00

Humanity depends upon the energy furnished by our environment. Without powerful energy sources, we would not be able to digitally communicate with people from anywhere and feel as if we're in the same room.


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Direnv – Manage Project-Specific Environment Variables in Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 14:19
direnv is a nifty open-source extension for your shell on a UNIX operating system such as Linux and macOS. It is compiled into a single static executable and supports shells such as bash, zsh,

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