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Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 20th of March 2005 10:09:16 PM

This began as a list of original articles found on tuxmachines.org, either by me or someone else, but it has since morphed into a list of original articles found on tuxmachines.org and the articles I've had published elsewhere.

Linux Tycoon: Design and Manage Your Own Distribution - March 31, 2012
Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 Arrives for Testing - March 29, 2012
GNOME 3.4 Released with Lots of Improvement - March 28, 2012
Greg K-H Updates Tumbleweed Status - March 27, 2012
LibreOffice 3.4.6 Released - March 22, 2012
openSUSE 12.2 M2, Better Late than Never - March 21, 2012
Mitchell Baker Says H.264 is About User Experience - March 19, 2012
LibreOffice 3.5.1 Released with Fixes - March 18, 2012
Mageia 2 Beta 2, Still No Live Images - March 16, 2012
KDE Spark Tablet Renamed to Honor Classical Composer - March 15, 2012
Final Debian 5 Update Released - March 13, 2012
Arch Turns Ten - Mar 12, 2012
Raspberry Pi Orders Now Being Accepted - Feb 29, 2012
Upcoming GNOME 3.4 Previewed - Feb 28, 2012
Fedora's Beefy Miracle Sizzling with Alpha 1 - Feb 28, 2012
Amnesia, Scariest Game Ever, to Get Sequel - Feb 24, 2012
Intel Joins TDF, Adds LibreOffice to AppUp Center - Feb 23, 2012
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 to 5.8 Risk Report - Feb 21, 2012
The Document Foundation Incorporated in Germany - Feb 20, 2012
KDE Spark Tablet Pre-Order Registration Open - Feb 16, 2012
LibreOffice 3.5 Released - Feb 14, 2012
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Reaches End of Life - Feb 10, 2012
Pardus Future Uncertain, Fork Probable - Feb 07, 2012
PCLinuxOS 2012.2 Released - Feb 02, 2012
openSUSE has a Dream - Jan 31, 2012
Mandriva Bankruptcy Crisis Averted, For Now - Jan 30, 2012
GhostBSD 2.5 - Now with an Easy Graphic Installer - Jan 26, 2012
Gentoo-based Toorox Releases 01.2012 GNOME Edition - Jan 25, 2012
Mandriva Decision Delayed Again - Jan 23, 2012
Xfce's Early April Fool's Joke - Jan 20, 2012
KDE 4.9 to get a New Widgets Explorer - Jan 19, 2012
Meet Bodhi's Bulky Brother: Bloathi - Jan 18, 2012
Mandriva Delays Bankruptcy Decision - Jan 17, 2012
LibreOffice 3.4.5 Released - Jan 16, 2012
Fedora Running Beefy Contest - Jan 13, 2012
Mageia 2 Inches Along with Another Alpha - Jan 12, 2012
Linux Mint 12 KDE Almost Ready - Jan 11, 2012
Greg KH Posts Status of Kernel Tree - Jan 10, 2012
Unused LibreOffice Code Expunged - Jan 9, 2012
Is Mandriva Finished This Time? - Jan 5, 2012
New aptosid Fork, siduction 11.1 Released - Jan 4, 2012
Lefebvre Introduces GNOME 3 Fork - Jan 3, 2012
Gentoo Gets New Year's Release - Jan 2, 2012

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The Performance & Power Efficiency Of The Core i7 990X vs. Core i9 9900K

With my initial Core i9 9900K benchmarks out there following Friday's embargo expiration, for some weekend benchmarking fun I decided to pull out the old Core i7 990X to see how it compares to the new 9900K... The Gulftown and Coffeelake processors were compared not only on raw performance but also overall power consumption and performance-per-Watt. The Core i7 990X was the Extreme Edition processor back from 2011 codenamed "Gulftown" (Westmere microarchitecture), the 32nm generation before Sandy Bridge. Granted the announced but not yet released Core i9 9900X X-Series CPU will be more akin for comparison to the 990X, and I will at such time that it is available, but just for some extra benchmark runs over the weekend I was curious to see how the 990X and 9900K compare...

Linux and systemd updates, with Plasma 5.13.5, Applications 18.08.1 and Frameworks 5.50 by KDE now available to all Chakra users

This time we have been a bit late, as many of our contributors were busy over the last couple of months, but we hope we can soon get back to normal delivery times. :blush: Better late than never though, so we are happy to inform you that on your next system upgrade you will receive newer versions of KDE’s Plasma, Applications and Frameworks, in addition to updates to important packages such as the linux kernel and systemd. The latest Plasma 5.14 2 series should follow soon.

Can You Build An Open Source Pocket Operator?

Toys are now musical instruments. Or we’ll just say musical instruments are now toys. You can probably ascribe this recent phenomenon to Frooty Loops or whatever software the kids are using these days, but the truth is that it’s never been easier to lay down a beat. Just press the buttons on a pocket-sized computer. One of the best examples of the playification of musical instruments is Pocket Operators from Teenage Engineering. They’re remarkable pieces of hardware, and really just a custom segment LCD and a few buttons. They also sound great and you can play real music with them. It’s a game changer when it comes to enabling musicianship. Of course, with any popular platform, there’s a need for an Open Source copy. That’s where [Chris]’ Teensy Beats Shield comes in. It’s a ‘shield’ of sorts for a Teensy microcontroller that adds buttons, knobs, and a display, turning this into a platform that uses the Teensy’s incredible audio system designer.

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MIT licensed KSyntaxHighlighting usage

With the KDE Frameworks 5.50 release, the KSyntaxHighlighting framework was re-licensed to the MIT license. This re-licensing only covers the actual code in the library and the bundled themes but not all of the syntax highlighting definition data files. One of the main motivation points was to get QtCreator to use this, if possible, instead of their own implementation of the Kate highlighting they needed to create in the past due to the incompatible licensing of KatePart at that time (and the impossibility to do a quick split/re-licensing of the parts in question).
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KDE Will Now Set Scale Factor For GTK Apps, Plasma Gets Other Scaling & UI Polishing Too

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap of interesting development activities impacting Plasma, Frameworks, and the Applications stack. When the display scaling factor for KDE is set to an integer, KDE will now export that as well to the GNOME/GTK environment variables of GDK_SCALE/GDK_DPI_SCALE, for helping out GTK applications running on the KDE desktop so they should still scale appropriately. The Wayland behavior was already correct while this should help out GTK X11 applications. The GNOME/GTK scaling though only supports scaling by integer numbers.

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NVIDIA Developers Express Interest In Helping Out libc++/libstdc++ Parallel Algorithms

NVIDIA developers have expressed interest in helping the open-source GCC libstdc++ and LLVM Clang libc++ standard libraries in bringing up support for the standardized parallel algorithms. C++17 brings parallelized versions for some of the algorithms exposed by the C++ standard library, but sadly GCC's libstdc++ and LLVM's libc++ do not yet support these parallel algorithms while the rest of their C++17 support is in great shape. Going back over a year Intel has been interested in contributing parallel support code to these C++ standard libraries that could be shared by both projects. The Intel path builds in abstractions for supporting different underlying thread/parallelism APIs.
The Rust-Written Kazan Vulkan Driver Lights Up Its Shader Compiler

This week the Kazan project (formerly known as "Vulkan-CPU") celebrated a small but important milestone in its trek to having a CPU-based Vulkan software implementation. As a refresher, Kazan is the project born as Vulkan-CPU during the 2017 Google Summer of Code. The work was started by student developer Jacob Lifshay and he made good progress last summer on the foundation of the project and continued contributing past the conclusion of that Google-funded program. By the end of the summer he was able to run some simple Vulkan compute tests. He also renamed Vulkan-CPU to Kazan (Japanese for "volcano").
Sway 1.0 Beta Released - Offers 100% Compatibility With i3 Window Manager

The Sway Wayland compositor inspired by X11's i3 window manager is now up to its beta ahead of the big 1.0 release. Sway 1.0 Beta offers "100%" compatibility with the i3 window manager. The Sway 1.0 release has also been working on many other changes including improved window handling, multi-GPU support, virtual keyboard protocol, real-time video capture, tablet support, and many other changes.
Panfrost Open-Source GPU Driver Continues Advancing For Mali GPUs

The Panfrost open-source, community-driven, reverse-engineered graphics driver for ARM Mali graphics processors continues panning out pretty well. Alyssa Rosenzweig has provided an update this weekend on the state of Panfrost for open-source Mali 3D support. The developers involved have been working out some texture issues, various OpenGL / GLES issues around GLMark2, and support now for running Wayland's Weston reference compositor.