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IWD 1.1 Released For Intel's Linux Wireless Daemon

Phoronix - Sun, 11/17/2019 - 13:06
Released at the end of October was Intel's IWD 1.0 wireless daemon while hitting the web this week was version 1.1...

Debian Moves Closer To Voting On Proposals Over Init System Diversity

Phoronix - Sun, 11/17/2019 - 09:00
Following the decision by Debian Project Leader Sam Hartman to seek a general resolution over init system diversity and just how much Debian developers care about supporting systemd alternatives, the general resolution vote is moving closer...

GCC Developers Discuss New Option For Recording Compiler Flags / Details In Binaries

Phoronix - Sun, 11/17/2019 - 01:14
GCC developers recently have been discussing a new proposal over an option for preserving the command-line flags/options used when building a binary as well as the associated compiler version...

Firefox vs. Chrome Browser Performance On Intel Ice Lake + Power/Memory Usage Tests

Phoronix - Sat, 11/16/2019 - 23:05
Using Firefox 70 (including WebRender) and Google Chrome 78, here are our latest round of Linux web browser benchmarks tested on the Dell XPS Ice Lake laptop. Making this round of Linux browser benchmarking more interesting is also including power consumption and RAM usage metrics for the different browser benchmarks.

Debian 10.2 Released With The Latest Security Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 11/16/2019 - 20:29
Debian 10.2 is out this morning as the latest point release to the "Buster" series...

Wine-Staging 4.20 Adds Undocumented D3D9 Internal Function For The Sims 2

Phoronix - Sat, 11/16/2019 - 20:18
Wine 4.20 came out last night while out today is Wine-Staging 4.20 as this experimental blend of Wine with more than eight-hundred extra patches on top...

Lenovo X1 Extreme 2nd Generation To Have Better Touchpad Input On Linux 5.4

Phoronix - Sat, 11/16/2019 - 20:11
With a change merged Friday night for the nearly over Linux 5.4 cycle, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme 2nd Gen laptop should see better touchpad input support...

4 critical growth opportunities for open source

opensource.com - Sat, 11/16/2019 - 16:00

I recently served on a panel about growth opportunities in open source at the Open Source India conference in Bengaluru. As you might expect, my fellow panelists and I approached the topic from widely varying perspectives, and I came away with the feeling that we may have confused many in the audience rather than enlightening them.


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AMD OverDrive Overclocking To Finally Work For Radeon Navi GPUs With Linux 5.5 Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 11/16/2019 - 14:42
While most Linux gamers don't appear to be into GPU overclocking, one of the limitations of the Radeon RX 5000 "Navi" series support with the AMD open-source driver to date has been no overclocking support. With the upcoming Linux 5.5 kernel that is set to change...

How to Install htop on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Sat, 11/16/2019 - 13:49
If you are looking to monitor your system interactively, then the htop command should be one of your best options. An improvement of its predecessor top command, htop is an interactive process viewer and...

EXT4 On Linux 5.5 To Support Encryption On Smaller Block Sizes

Phoronix - Sat, 11/16/2019 - 13:01
For the past four years going back to Linux 5.5 has been EXT4 native file-system encryption making use of the kernel's FSCRYPT framework that is shared between several file-systems. That support has continued to improve with time and with Linux 5.5 another limitation will be dropped...

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