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Fwupd 1.8.15 Released With Support For Updating More Device Firmware Under Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 05/12/2023 - 20:49
LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today released Fwupd 1.8.15 with fixes and allowing some additional devices to now enjoy firmware updating under Linux...

Intel oneAPI's Embree 4.1 Brings Its Ray-Tracing Library To 64-bit ARM

Phoronix - Fri, 05/12/2023 - 20:26
One of the fascinating elements of Intel's oneAPI software effort is how open they have been not to just supporting GPUs from multiple vendors or AMD CPUs too, but cross-CPU architecture support. Many Intel oneAPI components end up working on 64-bit ARM (AArch64) and even IBM POWER. The latest Intel software package seeing 64-bit ARM Linux support is their Embree ray-tracing kernels...

KDE Plasma Wayland Session Sees More Fixes Ahead Of Plasma 6.0

Phoronix - Fri, 05/12/2023 - 20:10
While the past week saw many KDE developers get together for a Plasma 6.0 development sprint in Bavaria, the development pace for code changes during this time period didn't lighten up. There still was a lot of code being committed for continuing to advance this open-source desktop environment...

DXVK 2.2 Released With D3D11On12 Support, Many Game Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 05/12/2023 - 18:27
DXVK 2.2 is now available as a big update to this open-source software for mapping the Direct3D 9/10/11 APIs to Vulkan and the first major release since DXVK 2.1 shipped back in January...

NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.2 Released + Remix Runtime Bridge Open-Sourced

Phoronix - Fri, 05/12/2023 - 18:19
Last month NVIDIA published RTX-Remix v0.1 for bringing path tracing to classic games. Out today is RTX-Remix v0.2 with more improvements to this tech plus they have now open-sourced the RTX Runtime Bridge as well...

LibreOffice 7.6 Alpha 1 Available For This Leading Open-Source Office Suite

Phoronix - Fri, 05/12/2023 - 18:02
The LibreOffice 7.6 Alpha build is now available for testing this next major feature release for this open-source, cross-platform free software office suite...

5 Ways to Fix “E: Unable to locate package” Error on Ubuntu

Tecmint - Fri, 05/12/2023 - 14:03
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Sometimes, when installing a package on Ubuntu using the APT package manager, you might bump into the error “E: Unable to locate package“. This

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How to Fix SSH Permission Denied (Public key) Error in Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 05/12/2023 - 12:52
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SSH, an acronym for Secure Shell, is a remote protocol that is widely used to make remote connections to servers, network devices, and other

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