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KDE Apps Now Remember Their Window Positions When Closed & Re-Launched

Phoronix - Sat, 08/22/2020 - 18:42
KDE applications finally have the ability to keeping their window positions preserved when closed and then re-launched...

EXT4 Changes Land For Linux 5.9 With Block Allocator Performance Work

Phoronix - Sat, 08/22/2020 - 15:58
With all the Linux 5.9 kernel changes you may have noticed no major EXT4 file-system pull request was submitted during the kernel merge window the prior two weeks. Fortunately, the EXT4 work has now been sent out and Linus Torvalds honored the late changes for this widely-used Linux file-system...

3 reasons small businesses choose open source tools for remote employees

opensource.com - Sat, 08/22/2020 - 15:00

The last decade or so has seen some significant changes in how businesses operate. The expansion of accessible, affordable, connected technology has removed barriers to many resources, enabling collaboration and execution of work by nearly anyone, from nearly anywhere. Though COVID-19 has made remote operations a necessity for a lot of industries, many businesses had already begun to embrace it as a more cost-effective, agile way of working.


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GStreamer 1.18 RC1 Released For This Leading Open-Source Multimedia Framework

Phoronix - Sat, 08/22/2020 - 12:02
GStreamer 1.18 is gearing up for release in the very near future while for right now a release candidate is available for testing this widely-used open-source multimedia framework...

Intel Xeon Ice Lake, Gen2 Optane + Linux's IO_uring Yielding Up To 2.58M IOPS Per Core

Phoronix - Sat, 08/22/2020 - 08:37
The Linux IO_uring interface for driving some major efficiency improvements in the Linux I/O stack is really screaming when paired with Intel's next-gen Ice Lake Xeon server platforms and the Intel Gen2 "Alder Stream" Optane solid-state drives...

Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler 2020-08 Released With Explicit SIMD Extension

Phoronix - Sat, 08/22/2020 - 04:09
Along with this week marking the release of oneAPI Level Zero 1.0, the oneAPI Data Parallel C++ compiler has seen its newest tagged release...

Paragon Sends Out Updated NTFS Driver They Want To Mainline For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 08/22/2020 - 00:53
Coming as a surprise last week was word of Paragon Software wanting to mainline their NTFS read-write driver as a significant improvement over the existing NTFS Linux kernel driver. An updated patch series for that much improved NTFS Linux kernel driver is now available...

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