Jeremy From System76 Working on Porting Coreboot to AMD CPUs
System76 principal engineer Jeremy Soller has initiated the effort on porting Coreboot to AMD Matisse and Renoir platforms.
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Sweet Home 3D Interior Design Application Released Version 6.4
Sweet Home 3D is a Java-based application and it is a great entry-level program for people who want to design their own home.
XEN Project Hypervisor 4.14 Brings Support for Azure and Raspberry Pi 4
Now is possible to manage Xen VMs in Azure with the tools you use to manage Xen VMs elsewhere. Raspberry Pi 4 and AMD EPYC support added.
With Proton, Many Windows Games Now Work on Linux
Proton is a compatibility layer that allows games designed for Windows to run in Linux.
Thunderbird 78 is Here with Major Changes and Dark Mode
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source, cross-platform email client, news client, RSS, and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The new version 78 released with major improvements, bug fixes, and dark mode support.
Microsoft Brings Its Own Open-Source Procmon For Linux
Microsoft has released a Linux version of the popular Procmon utility that Linux users can monitor running processes.
Laptop Mode Tools 1.74 – Power Saving Tools For Linux
Laptop Mode Tools can control the power-saving modes of the hard disk and screen, bluetooth and set the display standby time.
CopyQ – Advanced Clipboard Manager 3.12 Released
CopyQ monitors system clipboard and saves its content in customized tabs. It has some powerful features for every Linux user out there.
Ubuntu MATE 20.04 Beta 1 is Available for Raspberry Pi 2, 3, 3+ and 4
Ubuntu MATE 20.04 beta 1 is available for Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4 with separate images for ARMv7 32-bit and ARMv8 64-bit.
Microsoft will drop official support of PHP 8 on Windows
With the release of PHP 8.0, Microsoft was not going to be supporting PHP for Windows in any capacity for version 8.0 and beyond.