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Firefox Performance On Wayland Is Looking Good - Browser Benchmarks With KDE vs. GNOME

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2020 - 20:12
Earlier this month I looked at the X.Org vs. Wayland browser performance with Firefox and Chrome. Mozilla Firefox in particular was showing better performance on Wayland, so here are fresh tests of Firefox with using Fedora 32 and testing various X.Org/Wayland desktops.

LibreOffice 7.0 Will Prefer Building Its Rendering Code With LLVM's Clang Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2020 - 19:37
With the release of LibreOffice 7.0 in a few months, the open-source office suite will now prefer building at least portions of its code-base with the LLVM Clang compiler over GCC or Microsoft MSVC even if the default compiler is not Clang...

Intel SVT-AV1 0.8.2 Released With Many Significant AV1 Encoder/Decoder Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2020 - 18:51
Intel's open-source SVT-AV1 encoder/decoder for AV1 content continues becoming quite featureful while being extremely performant. Out today is SVT-AV1 0.8.2 with more significant work not only on the encoder side but also decoder...

DXVK 1.6.1 Brings Many Game Fixes For The Likes Of Crysis, Half-Life: Alyx, Battlefield 2

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2020 - 18:29
For those with more time on their hands due to social distancing, DXVK 1.6.1 is out to kick off a new week of Linux gaming. The DXVK 1.6.1 while a point release does come with a fair number of improvements to this Direct3D-over-Vulkan translation layer...

4 Git scripts I can't live without

opensource.com - Mon, 04/20/2020 - 15:03

In 2005, Linus Torvalds created Git to replace the proprietary distributed source control management solution that he had previously used to maintain the Linux kernel. Since then, Git has become a dominant version-control solution for open source and cloud-native development teams.


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New open source GIS projects for Kubernetes applications

opensource.com - Mon, 04/20/2020 - 15:02

Spatial data from geographic information systems (GIS) is all around us. From smartphones that make our lives better and more convenient to precision agriculture that is increasing the amount of food farmers can produce while reducing the cost, whether or not we realize it, almost every part of our lives is touched by spatial data.


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Why I use open source technology for web development

opensource.com - Mon, 04/20/2020 - 15:01

Every day, millions of people all over the world access the OpenStack Foundation's (OSF) web properties to learn about open infrastructure. This level of usage requires a platform and toolsets that are fast, flexible, and affordable—and this is where open source comes in. Not only that, but given that we work for an open source software foundation, we naturally incorporate open source technologies into everything we do, including web development.


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An introduction to writing your own HTML web pages

opensource.com - Mon, 04/20/2020 - 15:00

Websites are an excellent resource for open source software projects. A website provides an ideal opportunity for users to learn more about your project. Project websites can share additional information, screenshots, sample code, videos, and other resources that developers and users will find useful.

If you are interested in starting your own website, this article is for you.


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