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KDE Ending Out June With Many Bug Fixes, Finally Supporting Btrfs Copy-On-Write

Phoronix - Sat, 06/27/2020 - 18:46
KDE developers remain as busy as ever, especially when it comes to fixing bugs...

An open source browser extension to zoom in on images

opensource.com - Sat, 06/27/2020 - 15:00

Have you ever visited a website and wanted to see the images displayed larger? That happens to me all the time, and it isn't always easy to make that happen.

On occasion, I sift through the source code, use Ctrl + F to search for the image, copy the image source address and paste it into a new window in order to see the image at its full-size glory. Or, the other option is to right-click, copy the image address, and paste into a new tab.


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AMD Queues Its First Batch Of AMDGPU Changes For Linux 5.9: Sienna Cichlid + More

Phoronix - Sat, 06/27/2020 - 12:00
On Friday the initial batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes were submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.9 merge window happening in August...

RHEL Deprecating The Virt-Manager UI In Favor Of The Cockpit Web Console

Phoronix - Sat, 06/27/2020 - 04:19
The upstream virt-manager project including the virt-manager user-interface is still being maintained, but Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 has decided to deprecate the virt-manager UI moving forward...

There's A Proposal To Switch Fedora 33 On The Desktop To Using Btrfs

Phoronix - Sat, 06/27/2020 - 00:39
More than a decade ago Fedora was routinely trying to pursue the Btrfs file-system by default but those hopes were abandoned long ago. Heck, Red Hat Enterprise Linux no longer even supports Btrfs. While all Red Hat / Fedora interests in Btrfs seemed abandoned years ago especially with Red Hat developing their Stratis storage technology, there is a new (and serious) proposal about moving to Btrfs for Fedora 33 desktop variants...

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