KWin maintainer Martin Gräßlin has written a monthly status update concerning the state of KWin and KDE Plasma on Wayland…
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Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 to Bring Better Telephony and SMS Apps
The Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 update continues to receive all kinds of new packages and fixes, and it looks like the developers have had a really busy week.
The new OTA-8 update is expected to land on November 18 if nothing out of the ordinary happens until then. The previous two release cycles have been pretty calm, but we now have some pretty important upgrades for Mir and Unity, not to mention upgrades for a number of the other important components.
This is also the first up… (read more)
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Critical Requirements for HPC in the Cloud
Users in HPC environments have requirements for using a cloud provider that are different than typical enterprise applications. Learn about the key considerations for ensuring maximum performance for running HPC applications in the cloud.
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MATE 1.12 Has Arrived, Here’s What’s New
The MATE desktop environment has been updated to version 1.12, and the new iteration brings quite a few improvements, the most notable being the support for GTK 3.18.
The MATE desktop is used in a large number of Linux distributions, but the most prominent ones are Ubuntu MATE and Linux Mint. Both of these operating systems have a lot of users, and their developers are also contributors for the MATE project, which puts them in the unique position of building for the needs o… (read more)
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Idea – Modify Our Formats To Save The Undo History (GIMP, LibreOffice,Audacity,…)
The idea is simple. Why not add the possibility to save the undo history in our Linux software. For software like GIMP, LibreOffice or Audacity it would be much easier to just let the program keep the undo state for every project when saving. Size would be larger but the hassle of redoing stuff is worth it. And since one can do it like an option I don’t see a problem. There is another way but the problem with that is that you don’t know when to save. This idea solves that. // peroglyfer.se
