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Best free email program for Windows, Mac and Linux - Komando

Google News - Mon, 07/15/2019 - 05:04
Best free email program for Windows, Mac and Linux  Komando

With the number of business and consumer emails sent and received every day expected to exceed 293 billion this year, it seems everyone's inbox is always ...

FreeBSD 12 Runs Refreshingly Easy On AMD Ryzen 9 3900X - Benchmarks Against Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 21:19
While newer Linux distributions have run into problems on the new AMD Zen 2 desktop CPUs (fixed by a systemd patch or fundamentally by a BIOS update) and DragonFlyBSD needed a separate boot fix, FreeBSD 12.0 installed out-of-the-box fine on the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X test system with ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO WiFi motherboard.

Linux 5.2.1 Released For Riding The Latest Stable Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 20:25
For those that generally wait for the first point release before upgrading to a new kernel series, Greg Kroah-Hartman released Linux 5.2.1 this Sunday morning...

AMD Ryzen 3000 Systems To Get BIOS Update To Fix Linux And Destiny 2 Issues - Ubergizmo

Google News - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 19:35
AMD Ryzen 3000 Systems To Get BIOS Update To Fix Linux And Destiny 2 Issues  Ubergizmo

AMD launched its Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs just last week and systems that run them have faced a minor problem. It was quickly noticed by Linux users...

KDE's kstart5 Now Works On Wayland, No More HiDPI Screen Flickering At Start-Up

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 18:26
There is less than two months to go until KDE's annual Akademy conference, which this year is being hosted in Milan, Italy. But even with summer activities, KDE development remains quite busy. KDE developer Nate Graham has written another one of his weekly blog posts highlighting the interesting development work going into this open-source desktop environment...

Linux 5.3 Picking Up IPMB Driver For Intelligent Platform Management Bus - Phoronix

Google News - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 18:00
Linux 5.3 Picking Up IPMB Driver For Intelligent Platform Management Bus  Phoronix

Contributed by Mellanox to the Linux 5.3 kernel is an IPMB driver for the Intelligent Platform Management Bus. IPMB initially didn't ring a bell but after checking ...

Linux 5.3 Picking Up IPMB Driver For Intelligent Platform Management Bus

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 18:00
Contributed by Mellanox to the Linux 5.3 kernel is an IPMB driver for the Intelligent Platform Management Bus...

Fedora To Stop Providing i686 Kernels, Might Also Drop 32-Bit Modular/Everything Repos

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 16:48
The proposed change to no longer build i686 Linux kernel packages beginning with the Fedora 31 release later this year has been approved. Additionally, they might also begin removing some 32-bit repositories...

Best free email program for Windows, Mac and Linux - Komando

Google News - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 15:00
Best free email program for Windows, Mac and Linux  Komando

With the number of business and consumer emails sent and received every day expected to exceed 293 billion this year, it seems everyone's inbox is always ...

Linux Operating System Market By Services,Assets Type,Solutions,End-Users,Applications,Regions Forecasts to 2023 - Spaceflight News

Google News - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 15:00
Linux Operating System Market By Services,Assets Type,Solutions,End-Users,Applications,Regions Forecasts to 2023  Spaceflight News

Linux Operating System Market By Services,Assets Type,Solutions,End-Users,Applications,Regions Forecasts to 2023 | The Premier Source of Space ...

Unreal Engine 4.23 Preview Brings Virtual Texturing, Other Enhancements

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 13:40
Epic Games released the first public preview this week of Unreal Engine 4.23...

Excellent! Ubuntu LTS Users Will Now Get the Latest Nvidia Driver Updates [No PPA Needed Anymore] - It's FOSS

Google News - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 12:19
Excellent! Ubuntu LTS Users Will Now Get the Latest Nvidia Driver Updates [No PPA Needed Anymore]  It's FOSS

To get the latest Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu LTS versions, you don't have to use PPA anymore. The latest drivers will now be available in the repositories of the ...

The Input Driver Updates For Linux 5.3 Bring New Hardware Support

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 12:04
The input and HID subsystem updates were sent in this week with various hardware support additions and improvements...

DXVK 1.3 Released With Discard Optimization, Async Presentation

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 07:23
Philip Rebohle released version 1.3 of DXVK today, the widely-used Direct3D 10/11 to Vulkan translation layer for accelerating Windows gaming on Linux under Wine and most known with Steam Play...

NVIDIA's Graphics Driver Will Run Into Problems With Linux 5.3 On IBM POWER

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 00:26
For those using the NVIDIA proprietary graphics driver on an IBM POWER system, it could be a while before seeing Linux 5.3+ kernel support. Upstream has removed code depended upon by the NVIDIA binary driver for supporting the POWER architecture and as is the case they don't care that it will break NVIDIA driver support since it's binary/out-of-tree...

In memoriam – Corby Corbató, MIT computer science pioneer, dies at 93 - Naked Security

Google News - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 00:09
In memoriam – Corby Corbató, MIT computer science pioneer, dies at 93  Naked Security

Almost everyone's heard of Linux – it's the operating system kernel that's behind a significant proportion of servers on the internet, including most of Google, ...

OpenHMD 0.3 Released With Support For More VR/AR Devices

Phoronix - Sat, 07/13/2019 - 22:00
Nearly three years after OpenHMD 0.2, the OpenHMD 0.3 release is now available for the open-source SDK and support for various AR/VR headsets...

Networking Changes For Linux 5.3 Bring New Google Driver But No WireGuard

Phoronix - Sat, 07/13/2019 - 21:13
The networking subsystem updates were sent out on Wednesday for the Linux 5.3 kernel and include a bunch of improvements to many different drivers...

KDE Frameworks 5.60 Released With Many Changes & Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 07/13/2019 - 20:41
Today marks the immediate availability of KDE Frameworks 5.60...

AMD Picasso Support For Coreboot Appears Finally Ready

Phoronix - Sat, 07/13/2019 - 20:09
Back in April I wrote about Coreboot seeing AMD Picasso APU enablement work as the first Zen/Ryzen processor target being handled by this open-source BIOS alternative. It now looks like that Picasso support is all squared away and ready for use by future AMD-powered Google Chromebooks...

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