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Inkscape 1.3 Released As Latest Open-Source Software To Compete With Adobe Illustrator

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 12:00
Inkscape 1.3 is now available as the newest feature release ot this open-source software focused on being a vector graphics editor that can rival the likes of Adobe Illustrator...

10 Best File Comparison and Difference (Diff) Tools for Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 11:31
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While writing program files or normal text files, programmers and writers sometimes want to know the difference between two files or two versions of the

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Linux 6.5-rc3 Released - Looking "Pretty Normal"

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 06:51
Linus Torvalds just published Linux 6.5-rc3 as the newest weekly test release of the forthcoming Linux 6.5 kernel...

OpenBSD Finally Lands Support For Updating AMD CPU Microcode

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 05:06
Within the very latest OpenBSD "current" code is now support for being able to apply AMD CPU microcode updates...

MPV Player 0.36 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling, Vulkan Video Decode

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 01:30
MPV 0.36 is out today as the newest version of this open-source media player that was originally forked from the MPlayer/mplayer2 code and leveraging the FFmpeg library...

RISC-V Is Now An Official Debian Architecture

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 00:34
Debian 13 "Trixie" has been aiming for official RISC-V support and indeed it will happen: RISC-V has now been promoted to an official Debian CPU architecture...

It Turns Out Linux Is Supposed To Enable STIBP When Enabling AMD Zen 4's Auto IBRS

Phoronix - Sun, 07/23/2023 - 19:20
Automatic IBRS is a new feature with AMD Zen 4 processors akin to Intel's Enhanced IBRS functionality. Linux 6.3 added Auto IBRS support but it turns out when that was being enabled an oversight was made...

EEVDF Scheduler May Be Ready For Landing With Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Sun, 07/23/2023 - 19:00
Intel Linux engineer Peter Zijlstra's EEVDF CPU scheduler code to replace the existing Completely Fair Scheduler "CFS" code looks like it will attempt to land with the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window...

Wine-Staging 8.13 Released With D3D12GetInterface Stub

Phoronix - Sun, 07/23/2023 - 18:44
Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.13, Wine-Staging 8.13 is out today with 504 patches atop that upstream code-base...

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