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KDE Plasma 6 Aiming For Better Defaults - Including Wayland By Default

Phoronix - Thu, 05/11/2023 - 18:10
Following the recent Plasma 6 developer sprint in Bavaria is an update on the achievements from that KDE developer event. KDE developer Nate Graham published a blog post today that focuses on some of the default changes intended for Plasma 6.0, including hopes of being able to use the Wayland session by default...

AlmaLinux 9.2 Released As Free Alternative To Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2

Phoronix - Thu, 05/11/2023 - 17:55
AlmaLinux 9.2 is now available for this community-driven, freely-available alternative to upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2. The AlmaLinux crew managed to deliver this release just hours after Red Hat reached general availability on RHEL 9.2 and RHEL 8.8...

Install Google Chrome on Ubuntu, Debian and Linux Mint

Tecmint - Thu, 05/11/2023 - 12:45
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Google Chrome Browser developed by Google Inc. is a freeware web browser licensed under Google Chrome Terms of Service. As per Wikipedia (as of

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How to Install Ubuntu Restricted Extras

Tecmint - Thu, 05/11/2023 - 12:35
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Ubuntu Restricted Extras is a software bundle for the Ubuntu operating system that allows users to install software that isn’t currently included for ethical

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Mesa 23.1 Released With RadeonSI Rusticl-OpenCL, RADV GPL

Phoronix - Thu, 05/11/2023 - 07:27
Mesa 23.1 has been released as this quarter's feature release for this collection of open-source, user-space graphics components that primarily consist of OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...

Bcachefs Submitted For Review - Next-Gen CoW File-System Aims For Mainline

Phoronix - Thu, 05/11/2023 - 02:00
In development for over a half-decade already has been Bcachefs as a copy-on-write (CoW) file-system born originally out of the Linux kernel's block cache code. On Tuesday the Bcachefs patch series was sent out for review and hopeful inclusion into the kernel by lead developer Kent Overstreet...

AMD GFX941 & GFX942 GPU Targets Added To LLVM Compiler

Phoronix - Thu, 05/11/2023 - 01:39
Going back to last year there's been AMD GFX940 work within the LLVM compiler for its AMDGPU compiler back-end. That AMD GFX940 should align to the Instinct MI300 while introduced to the latest LLVM compiler code today are new GFX941 and GFX942 targets...

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