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Qt 6.6 Nears Release With RC Offered Up For Testing

Phoronix - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 18:10
Qt 6.6 is nearing release for this open-source and cross-platform toolkit while out this morning is the release candidate...

OCRmyPDF 15.0 Released For Optical Character Recognition Of PDF Files

Phoronix - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 17:52
A major update to OCRmyPDF is now available, the open-source project that can work on scanned PDFs and other PDF documents to add an optical character recognition (OCR) text layer to files for allowing them to be searched or copy-pasted. OCRmyPDF makes it a breeze in dealing with scanned PDF text files and now with OCRmyPDF v15 is even better...

4 Best Twitter Clients for Linux in 2023 (Updated)

Tecmint - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 12:31
The post 4 Best Twitter Clients for Linux in 2023 (Updated) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Twitter is one of the most popular and massively used blogging services on the Internet today, with the ever-increasing use of this amazing social media

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Linux 6.7 Adding New Feature To Btrfs For The Steam Deck

Phoronix - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 03:08
Queued up into the Btrfs file-system driver's "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.7 cycle is the Temp-FSID (Same-FSID) feature that is being pursued for use by Valve's Steam Deck game console. The functionality is to overcome a limitation of allowing Btrfs to mount two different devices holding the same file-system image and therefore the same file-system ID...

Intel Continues GCC Compiler Preparations For AVX10 & APX

Phoronix - Mon, 09/25/2023 - 23:28
Since announcing the Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and AVX10 back in July, Intel's open-source compiler engineers have been busy preparing the GCC and LLVM/Clang compiler toolchains for these major CPU extensions to be found with future Intel processors...

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