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NVIDIA 450.57 Linux Driver Released With Image Sharpening Option, NGX Library

Phoronix - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 21:45
Following a NVIDIA 450 Linux beta with the CUDA 11.0-rc in early June and the more formal NVIDIA 450.51 Linux beta later in June, NVIDIA has now promoted the 450 Linux driver series to stable with today's release of the 450.57 driver build...

systemd 246-RC1 Released

Phoronix - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 21:29
The first release candidate of the forthcoming systemd 246 is now available for testing...

KDE Seeing Fresh Improvements For HiDPI Support

Phoronix - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 21:18
It took the GNOME/Ubuntu side until Canonical developer Daniel van Vugt picked up a 4K display with Intel graphics for various 4K/Intel graphics optimizations to be discovered and continue to be addressed for the GNOME desktop. Now on the KDE side, well known contributor Nate Graham recently picked up a new laptop with HiDPI display and there he has been working to resolve a number of lingering high DPI issues on the KDE front...

LibreOffice Might Delay Its "Personal Edition" Branding Or Change To "Community Edition"

Phoronix - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 19:06
In response to the largely critical feedback of LibreOffice 7.0-RC1's branding as "Personal Edition" for the standard version of this open-source office suite, the branding is being reconsidered to either delay it until LibreOffice 7.1 or potentially relabel it as the "Community Edition" version...

GCC Compiler Lands Mitigation For Arm's Straight Line Speculation Vulnerability

Phoronix - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 18:38
It took a month after Arm disclosed the CPU "SLS" vulnerability and when the LLVM compiler landed their initial mitigation, but the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) now has mitigations as well for this Straight Line Speculation vulnerability...

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Hops Onto The Microsoft Store For WSL/WSL2

Phoronix - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 18:12
Following last week's release of openSUSE Leap 15.2, this latest community, SUSE-backed Linux distribution release is now available via the Microsoft Store...

A Microsoft Addition For systemd 246 Exposes Host OS Information To Containers

Phoronix - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 15:02
There is a last minute change from a Microsoft engineer to the upcoming systemd 246 that is now undergoing release preparations...

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