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GNOME Shell + Mutter 3.36 Released Following Last Minute Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2020 - 08:49
In preparing for the GNOME 3.36 stable release due out on 11 March, GNOME Shell and Mutter issued their final v3.36.0 releases on Saturday...

APT 2.0 Released For Debian Package Management

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2020 - 05:34
Over the past year Debian developers have been working towards APT 2.0 while now it is officially released for the advanced package tool on Debian, Ubuntu, and other DEB-based platforms...

The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Is Set To Land With Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2020 - 00:30
Linux 5.4 brought a preliminary Microsoft exFAT file-system driver after Microsoft made the exFAT specification public and encouraged the support for Linux. But with the Linux 5.7 kernel this spring, a new exFAT file-system driver is going to land that is a much improved version of the earlier code...

Thermal Pressure On Tap For Linux 5.7 So The Scheduler Can Be Aware Of Overheating CPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2020 - 00:07
Going back about two years has been work by Linaro on "thermal pressure" support for the scheduler so that it can make better task placement decisions among CPU cores when any of the core(s) are being restricted by running too hot. That work is now set to finally land this spring with the Linux 5.7 kernel...

Ubuntu 20.04 Atop ZFS+Zsys Will Take Snapshots On APT Operations

Phoronix - Sat, 03/07/2020 - 23:30
Ubuntu 20.04 is coming out next month and will be the first LTS release with Ubuntu desktop ZFS support available for the root file-system after it was made easy-to-deploy the Ubuntu desktop on ZFS last cycle. One of the areas being expanded upon with the ZFS support has been Ubuntu's Zsys daemon for offering extra functionality for ZFS-based setups...

Qt Creator 4.12 Reaches Beta

Phoronix - Sat, 03/07/2020 - 20:30
The Qt Company has put out the first public beta of the Qt Creator 4.12 integrated development environment focused on Qt/C++ development...

Vulkan 1.2.134 Released With Many Fixes/Clarifications, New Qualcomm Extension

Phoronix - Sat, 03/07/2020 - 20:16
The Khronos Group has released Vulkan 1.2.134 as their newest revision to this high-performance graphics/compute API...

Compose music as code using Sonic Pi

opensource.com - Sat, 03/07/2020 - 16:00

Maybe you're like me, and you learned a musical instrument when you were in school. For me, it was the piano, and later, the viola. However, I've always held that, as my childhood interests shifted towards computers and coding, I subsequently neglected my music practice. I do wonder what I would have done if I'd had something like Sonic Pi when I was younger. Sonic Pi is an open source program that lets you compose and perform music through code itself. It's the perfect marriage of those two worlds.


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