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Wayland's Weston 8.0 Reaches Alpha With EGL Partial Updates, Headless OpenGL

Phoronix - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 19:36
Weston release manager Simon Ser on Friday released the Wayland's Weston 8.0 reference compositor in alpha form...

Linux 5.5 KVM Adds POWER Support For Secure Guests/VMs

Phoronix - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 18:25
IBM's work from over a year ago in working towards secure virtual machines on POWER hardware is finally coming to fruition with Linux 5.5 due out early next year...

Mesa 20.0 Now Includes Intel's Gallium3D Driver To Build By Default

Phoronix - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 16:13
As part of the ongoing effort for Intel's plans to use their new Gallium3D OpenGL Linux driver by default on next quarter's Mesa 20.0 for Broadwell "Gen8" graphics and newer, another step in that direction was achieved on Friday...

Getting started with the GNOME Linux desktop

opensource.com - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 16:02

The GNOME project is the Linux desktop's darling, and deservedly so. It began as the free and open desktop alternative to proprietary options (including KDE at the time), and it's been going strong ever since. GNOME took GTK+, developed by the GIMP project, and ran with it, developing it into a robust, all-purpose GTK framework.


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New machine learning from Alibaba and Netflix, mimicking animal vision, and more open source news

opensource.com - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 16:00

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look an open source election auditing tool, new open source from Alibaba and Netflix, mimicking animal vision, and more!


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Linux 5.5 Adds NFS Client Support For Cross-Device Offloaded Copies (Server To Server)

Phoronix - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 13:59
With NFSv4.2 is the server-side copy (SSC) functionality with the Linux 5.5 kernel's NFS client-side support for that support in allowing "inter" copy offloads between different NFS servers...

GRUB Now Supports Btrfs 3/4-Copy RAID1 Profiles (RAID1C3 / RAID1C4 On Linux 5.5+)

Phoronix - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 13:02
When it comes to the storage/file-system changes with the in-development Linux 5.5 kernel one of the most prominent end-user-facing changes is more robust RAID1 for Btrfs with the ability to have three or four copies of the data rather than just two copies, should data safety be of utmost importance and concerned over the possibility of two disks in an array failing...

Debian Developers Take To Voting Over Init System Diversity

Phoronix - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 07:32
It's been five years already since the vote to transition to systemd in Debian over Upstart while now there is the new vote that has just commenced for judging the interest in "init system diversity" and just how much Debian developers care (or not) in supporting alternatives to systemd...

Wine 5.0 Code Freeze To Begin Next Week

Phoronix - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 04:16
As expected by Wine's annual release cadence, next week Wine 5.0 will enter its code freeze followed by release candidates until this next stable Wine release is ready to ship around early 2020...

Google Reaffirms Commitment To Kotlin Programming Language For Android

Phoronix - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 03:50
The Kotlin programming language on Android has become very popular and Google announced today nearly 60% of the top 1,000 Android applications are using Kotlin code in some capacity. Beyond their announcement earlier this year of Android development being Kotlin-first, as they look forward to 2020 will be more Kotlin + Android action...

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