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LibreOffice On Windows Will Now Hard Require Clang For Performance Reasons

Phoronix - Fri, 05/08/2020 - 21:28
Last month we reported on LibreOffice now preferring its new rendering code be built with LLVM Clang over alternative compilers. When falling back to CPU-based software rasterization, the Clang-generated code performs much better than alternative compilers given Google's own emphasis with Skia on being Clang-focused. LibreOffice 7.0 is now beginning a hard requirement on Clang when building for Windows...

Con Kolivas Fixes Up GUI-Related Stalls In Mesa

Phoronix - Fri, 05/08/2020 - 19:25
Con Kolivas known for his longtime work on improving Linux desktop responsiveness with largely working on the kernel and the likes of MuQSS has now seen his first Mesa patch merged for fixing unexpected GUI-related stalls...

FreeRDP 2.1 Released Due To Multiple Security Issues

Phoronix - Fri, 05/08/2020 - 18:58
Last month marked the release of FreeRDP 2.0 for implementing the Microsoft Remote Assistant Protocol v2. FreeRDP 2.0 also brought RDP proxy support, font smoothing by default, Flatpak packaging support, better scaling for Wayland, and other improvements. Today now marks the release of FreeRDP 2.1...

Software Boosting Patches Volleyed For CPPC CPUFreq Driver (Boost / Turbo Frequency)

Phoronix - Fri, 05/08/2020 - 18:46
A new set of kernel patches out this morning are for implementing software boost support within the ACPI CPPC CPUFreq driver...

How to Create a Local Self-Signed SSL Certificate on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Fri, 05/08/2020 - 16:56
SSL (Secure Socket Layer), and its improved version, TLS (Transport Socket Layer), are security protocols that are used to secure web traffic sent from a client’s web browser to a web server. An SSL...

Oracle Working On "PKRAM" For Memory That Survives After Booting Into A New Kexec Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 05/08/2020 - 15:33
Oracle's Anthony Yznaga has sent out a proposal for "PKRAM" as a new means of being able to preserve memory pages of the currently running kernel so that they can be restored after launching a new kernel via kexec...

5 ways to split your Linux terminal

opensource.com - Fri, 05/08/2020 - 15:03

Is there anything better than a warmly flickering Linux terminal?

Sure there is: two warmly flickering Linux terminals. In fact, the more, the better.


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Getting started with FreeBSD as a desktop operating system

opensource.com - Fri, 05/08/2020 - 15:02

FreeBSD is a great operating system, but, by design, it does not come with a desktop environment. Without installing additional software from FreeBSD's ports and packages collection, FreeBSD is a command-line only experience. The screenshot below shows what logging into FreeBSD 12.1 looks like when every one of the "optional system components" is selected during installation.


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