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  11. <title>Monero P2Pool V1.0 Is Released</title>
  12. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/Monero_P2Pool_V1.0_Is_Released</link>
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  14. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Monero-icon.png&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/7/71/Monero-icon.png/32px-Monero-icon.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/7/71/Monero-icon.png/48px-Monero-icon.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/7/71/Monero-icon.png/64px-Monero-icon.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; The latest version of P2Pool, a decentralized &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Monero&quot; title=&quot;Monero&quot;&gt;Monero&lt;/a&gt; mining pool has released. This is the first official release, signaling an invitation for more users to try out the new software.
  15. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:Danseobang&quot; title=&quot;User:Danseobang&quot;&gt;단서방 (Danseobang)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#160;2021-09-20 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-09-21.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  16. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/1/10/XMRig-mining-monero.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;XMRig-mining-monero.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/1/10/XMRig-mining-monero.jpg/900px-XMRig-mining-monero.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;461&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/1/10/XMRig-mining-monero.jpg/1350px-XMRig-mining-monero.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/1/10/XMRig-mining-monero.jpg/1800px-XMRig-mining-monero.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/XMRig&quot; title=&quot;XMRig&quot;&gt;XMRig&lt;/a&gt;, a P2Pool compatible mining tool, mining &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Monero&quot; title=&quot;Monero&quot;&gt;Monero&lt;/a&gt; XMR currency on a CPU.&lt;/i&gt;
  17. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://sethforprivacy.com/guides/run-a-p2pool-node/&quot;&gt;Instructions&lt;/a&gt; for using P2Pool remain more complex than traditional mining software. Adding decentralization to things tends to produce that result.
  18. &lt;/p&gt;
  19. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;A_Closer_Look&quot;&gt;A Closer Look&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Monero_P2Pool_V1.0_Is_Released&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=1&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: A Closer Look&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  20. &lt;p&gt;P2Pool works by running a separate blockchain that's merged mined with Monero. This blockchain finds blocks quicker than Monero, but whose work put in can also be used on the regular Monero blockchain. When a block on P2Pool is also valid on Monero, every miner who found a block on P2Pool since the last Monero P2Pool mined block gets a portion of the Monero reward.
  21. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;P2Pool is able to run blocktimes as low as 1 second using &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/34/what-is-an-uncle-ommer-block&quot;&gt;uncle blocks&lt;/a&gt;, as seen in Ethereum.
  22. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To a regular miner, P2Pool's only advantage as listed in the &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool#readme&quot;&gt;README&lt;/a&gt; is lack of fees:
  23. &lt;/p&gt;
  24. &lt;table class=&quot;wikitable&quot;&gt;
  25. &lt;caption&gt;Pool mining vs Solo mining vs P2Pool mining Comparison
  26. &lt;/caption&gt;
  27. &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
  28. &lt;th&gt;Pool type&lt;/th&gt;
  29. &lt;th&gt;Payouts&lt;/th&gt;
  30. &lt;th&gt;Fee&lt;/th&gt;
  31. &lt;th&gt;Centralized?&lt;/th&gt;
  32. &lt;th&gt;Stability&lt;/th&gt;
  33. &lt;th&gt;Required Setup
  34. &lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  35. &lt;tr&gt;
  36. &lt;td&gt;Mining Pool&lt;/td&gt;
  37. &lt;td&gt;Regular&lt;/td&gt;
  38. &lt;td&gt;0-3%&lt;/td&gt;
  39. &lt;td&gt;Yes&lt;/td&gt;
  40. &lt;td&gt;Dependent on pool server&lt;/td&gt;
  41. &lt;td&gt;Mining Software
  42. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  43. &lt;tr&gt;
  44. &lt;td&gt;Solo&lt;/td&gt;
  45. &lt;td&gt;Rare&lt;/td&gt;
  46. &lt;td&gt;0%&lt;/td&gt;
  47. &lt;td&gt;No&lt;/td&gt;
  48. &lt;td&gt;Stable as your Monero node&lt;/td&gt;
  49. &lt;td&gt;Monero Node
  50. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  51. &lt;tr&gt;
  52. &lt;td&gt;P2Pool&lt;/td&gt;
  53. &lt;td&gt;regular&lt;/td&gt;
  54. &lt;td&gt;0%&lt;/td&gt;
  55. &lt;td&gt;No&lt;/td&gt;
  56. &lt;td&gt;Stable as your Monero node&lt;/td&gt;
  57. &lt;td&gt;Monero Node + P2Pool Node + Mining Software
  58. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  59. &lt;p&gt;However, reducing attack vectors on the Monero network may ensure the longevity of their profits.
  60. &lt;/p&gt;
  61. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;Monero's_Search_For_Decentralized_Mining&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Monero.27s_Search_For_Decentralized_Mining&quot;&gt;Monero's Search For Decentralized Mining&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Monero_P2Pool_V1.0_Is_Released&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=2&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Monero&amp;#039;s Search For Decentralized Mining&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  62. &lt;p&gt;Cryptocurrencies like &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Bitcoin&quot; title=&quot;Bitcoin&quot;&gt;Bitcoin&lt;/a&gt; have specialized hardware (ASICs) for validating transactions and minting new rewards. With expensive costs leading to a high barrier of entry, Bitcoin mining is more difficult for regular hobbiests and ASIC production companies are able to mine on next-generation equipment before the average consumer.
  63. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the contrary, Monero's &quot;hashing&quot; algorithm &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/tevador/RandomX&quot;&gt;RandomX&lt;/a&gt; uses random code execution alongside anti-ASIC techniques to stunt advantages of specialized hardware over traditional CPUs. The idea is if an ASIC company needs to develop something close to an Intel chip just to mine faster, their initial downpayments on R&amp;amp;D and production are astronomical for a short lived burst of mining that would be rendered ineffective after a hardfork.
  64. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, Monero's mining wasn't always a success. Before RandomX in 2018, Monero's much simpler &quot;memory hard&quot; hashing algorithm was mined by ASICs &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://medium.com/@MoneroCrusher/analysis-more-than-85-of-the-current-monero-hashrate-is-asics-and-each-machine-is-doing-128-kh-s-f39e3dca7d78&quot;&gt;in secret&lt;/a&gt;, leading to massive centralization and a large opportunity for network attacks. &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://web.getmonero.org/2019/03/24/logs-for-the-dev-meeting-held-on-2019-03-24.html&quot;&gt;Meeting logs&lt;/a&gt; in 2019 show the Monero team considered moving to SHA3 if RandomX posed risk to becoming ASIC mineable again.
  65. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  101. <pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 22:47:24 GMT</pubDate>
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  106. <title>Mousepad 0.5.5 Is Released With Client Side Decorations And Spellchecking</title>
  107. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/Mousepad_0.5.5_Is_Released_With_Client_Side_Decorations_And_Spellchecking</link>
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  109. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Xfce4-whiskermenu.svg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/39/Xfce4-whiskermenu.svg/32px-Xfce4-whiskermenu.svg.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/39/Xfce4-whiskermenu.svg/48px-Xfce4-whiskermenu.svg.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/39/Xfce4-whiskermenu.svg/64px-Xfce4-whiskermenu.svg.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; The latest Mousepad text editor for Xfce brings client side decorations, plugin support with a new spell check plugin that uses gspell to provide long-missing spell check functionality to mousepad and integration with the Xfce settings manager. There's also some code refactoring and minor changes beneath the hood.
  110. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:Yuri&quot; title=&quot;User:Yuri&quot;&gt;권유리 (Kwon Yu-ri)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#160;2021-05-12 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-10-07.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  111. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/6/66/Mousepad-0.5.5-csd.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Mousepad-0.5.5-csd.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/6/66/Mousepad-0.5.5-csd.jpg/900px-Mousepad-0.5.5-csd.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;508&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/6/66/Mousepad-0.5.5-csd.jpg/1350px-Mousepad-0.5.5-csd.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/6/66/Mousepad-0.5.5-csd.jpg/1800px-Mousepad-0.5.5-csd.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mousepad 0.5.5 with client side decorations editing the Makefile from linus.git. Mousepad does support syntax highlighting and it's shown as long as you set the &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Color scheme&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Preferences&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;▸ &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;View&lt;/span&gt; to anything other than &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;None&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;
  112. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mousepad is a really simple and light-weight text editor made primarily with the Xfce desktop environment in mind. The latest version comes with client side decoration support and it is enabled by default. That's bad news if you want a light-weight text editor you can use to copy some text from an e-mail client on one virtual desktop into a web browser on another virtual desktop then mousepad is no longer for you since there is no button for making it sticky between virtual desktops anymore. You can also forget about maximizing it vertically or horizontally by clicking the maximize button with the middle or right mouse buttons; that's also gone since those &quot;client side decorations&quot; on the &quot;header bar&quot; don't support those.
  113. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only good news about this new client side decoration &quot;feature&quot; is that it &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; be turned off. There is a setting in the &lt;b&gt;&lt;code&gt;xfce4-settings-editor&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/b&gt; under &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;xsettings&lt;/span&gt; titled &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;DialogsUseHeader&lt;/span&gt;. Mousepad 0.5.5 does, of course, not care if you disable that setting. And there is, of course, now way to turn it off from in &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Edit&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;▸ &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Preferences&lt;/span&gt; from within &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Mousepad&quot; title=&quot;Mousepad&quot;&gt;Mousepad&lt;/a&gt;. However, our close-up inspection of &lt;code&gt;mousepad/mousepad-settings.h&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;mousepad/mousepad-util.c&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;mousepad/org.xfce.mousepad.gschema.xml&lt;/code&gt; reveals that Mousepad developer Gaël Bonithon put a secret &lt;code&gt;client-side-decorations&lt;/code&gt; switch into the setting schema. No, it can't be changed by opening some text file in &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Mousepad&quot; title=&quot;Mousepad&quot;&gt;mousepad&lt;/a&gt;, the actual settings are stored in the binary blob file &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.config/dconf/user&lt;/code&gt;. The trick to adding a setting to that file so &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Mousepad&quot; title=&quot;Mousepad&quot;&gt;mousepad&lt;/a&gt; understands it is to open a terminal and run:
  114. &lt;/p&gt;
  115. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-bash mw-content-ltr&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;dconf write /org/xfce/mousepad/preferences/window/client-side-decorations &lt;span class=&quot;nb&quot;&gt;false&lt;/span&gt;
  116. &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  117. &lt;p&gt;The header bar on other GTK &quot;apps&quot; can be somewhat fixed by installing &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/PCMan/gtk3-nocsd&quot;&gt;gtk3-nocsd&lt;/a&gt;, but that's not a elegant solution: It leave you with the window manager title bar &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; the header bar. Setting that configuration key using &lt;b&gt;&lt;code&gt;dconf&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/b&gt; makes &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Mousepad&quot; title=&quot;Mousepad&quot;&gt;mousepad&lt;/a&gt; look as it should with all the window manager functionality intact.
  118. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/e/ea/Mousepad-0.5.5-nocsd.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Mousepad-0.5.5-nocsd.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/e/ea/Mousepad-0.5.5-nocsd.jpg/900px-Mousepad-0.5.5-nocsd.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;443&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/e/ea/Mousepad-0.5.5-nocsd.jpg/1350px-Mousepad-0.5.5-nocsd.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/e/ea/Mousepad-0.5.5-nocsd.jpg/1800px-Mousepad-0.5.5-nocsd.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Resistance is not futile: You can disable the client side decorations. You can also enable spell checking with &lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;k&lt;/kbd&gt; and get red lines, indicating that there is cause for concern, when &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/China&quot; title=&quot;China&quot;&gt;Chinese&lt;/a&gt; involvement with Linux driver files is indicated.&lt;/i&gt;
  119. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Spell-check support is the other big highlight in Mousepad 0.5.5.&lt;/b&gt; The latest version has gained support for plugins and the first available plugin is a spell checker based on gspell (It's built if you have the development files for gspell). It's pretty clumsily implemented; you can press &lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;k&lt;/kbd&gt; to enable or disable it and that's &lt;i&gt;your options&lt;/i&gt;. There is no way to configure minor details like &lt;i&gt;what language the document you are writing is in&lt;/i&gt; so it's basically useless if you speak more than one language. This is the first version with &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; spell check support, so it is principle an improvement that could evolve into something useful over time.
  120. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's also new integration with Xfce's settings manager where mousepad now shows up as &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Text Editor Settings&lt;/span&gt; thanks to a .desktop file that makes it appear as a settings manager icon that launches &lt;b&gt;&lt;code&gt;mousepad --preferences&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.
  121. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are, additionally, a quite a few non-visible changes to the underlying code and one small sometimes visible change: The recent items menu is now disabled if there are no recent items.
  122. &lt;/p&gt;
  123. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Bugs&quot;&gt;Bugs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Mousepad_0.5.5_Is_Released_With_Client_Side_Decorations_And_Spellchecking&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=1&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Bugs&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  124. &lt;p&gt;The editor areas context menu (&lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;≣ Menu&lt;/kbd&gt; or right-click) in Mousepad 0.5.5 uses the same font as the text editor area, which looks really odd and unlike all other Xfce applications and text editors in general. It's been like that for a long time, it's not new to this release.
  125. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Mousepad 0.5.5 source code can be acquired from &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/mousepad/0.5/mousepad-0.5.5.tar.bz2&quot;&gt;archive.xfce.org/src/apps/mousepad/0.5/mousepad-0.5.5.tar.bz2&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;b&gt;&lt;code&gt;sha256sum&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/b&gt; should, as &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/mousepad/0.5/mousepad-0.5.5.tar.bz2?sha256&quot;&gt;https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/mousepad/0.5/mousepad-0.5.5.tar.bz2?sha256&lt;/a&gt; indicates, be &lt;code&gt;40c35f00e0e10df50a59bd0dbba9007d2fb5574ed8a2aa73b0fc5ef40e64abe1&lt;/code&gt;.
  126. &lt;/p&gt;
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  168. <pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2021 22:38:02 GMT</pubDate>
  169. <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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  173. <title>Macs &amp; MacOS: Greener Grass?</title>
  174. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/Macs_%26_MacOS:_Greener_Grass%3F</link>
  175. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://linuxreviews.org/Macs_%26_MacOS:_Greener_Grass%3F</guid>
  176. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Benchmark icon.png&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/c/c9/Benchmark_icon.png/32px-Benchmark_icon.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/c/c9/Benchmark_icon.png/48px-Benchmark_icon.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/c/c9/Benchmark_icon.png/64px-Benchmark_icon.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; Linux and Windows can be installed interchangeably on PCs, leading consumers to find what works best for them. The constant unknown about &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/MacOS&quot; title=&quot;MacOS&quot;&gt;MacOS&lt;/a&gt; brings a certain appeal to it - like standing outside an exclusive club, wondering what’s inside.
  177. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:Danseobang&quot; title=&quot;User:Danseobang&quot;&gt;단서방 (Danseobang)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#160;2021-05-15 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-12-13.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  178. &lt;/p&gt;
  179. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  180. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  181. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;Articles comparing Linux, Mac and Windows are all over the internet - They assert high level details - but lack detail and grit. This article attempts to cover some of that&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  182. &lt;/p&gt;
  183. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:right;border-top:1px dotted black;&quot;&gt;Danseobang&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  184. &lt;/div&gt;
  185. &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Steve Jobs on Darwin is Linux-like.png&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/0/0d/Steve_Jobs_on_Darwin_is_Linux-like.png/800px-Steve_Jobs_on_Darwin_is_Linux-like.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;598&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/0/0d/Steve_Jobs_on_Darwin_is_Linux-like.png 1.5x&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Steve Jobs describing the MacOS Kernel &quot;Darwin&quot; as &quot;Linux-like&quot;, Macworld San Francisco 2000-The Mac OS X Introduction.&lt;/i&gt;
  186. &lt;/p&gt;
  187. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;Mac_advantages_over_Linux_&amp;amp;_Windows&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Mac_advantages_over_Linux_.26_Windows&quot;&gt;Mac advantages over Linux &amp;amp; Windows&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Macs_%26_MacOS:_Greener_Grass%3F&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=1&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Mac advantages over Linux &amp;amp; Windows&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  188. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mac doesn’t use the (very old) and insecure X11, and instead has its own fork called XQuartz*&lt;/li&gt;
  189. &lt;li&gt;MacOS mostly works out of the box&lt;/li&gt;
  190. &lt;li&gt;Near perfect hardware integration&lt;/li&gt;
  191. &lt;li&gt;Apple ecosystem support (Xcode, iOS app integration)&lt;/li&gt;
  192. &lt;li&gt;Lightning fast &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://i.imgur.com/xotx2rm.png&quot;&gt;swap space&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  193. &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt; * Most Linux desktops are moving towards &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://wayland.freedesktop.org/&quot;&gt;Wayland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;
  194. &lt;/p&gt;
  195. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Mac_Issues&quot;&gt;Mac Issues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Macs_%26_MacOS:_Greener_Grass%3F&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=2&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Mac Issues&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  196. &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;This article is by no means exclusive.&lt;/i&gt;
  197. &lt;/p&gt;
  198. &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Customization&quot;&gt;Customization&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Macs_%26_MacOS:_Greener_Grass%3F&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=3&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Customization&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  199. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;No proper integration for alternative desktop environments
  200. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The best you can do is run them in a (buggy) full screen application&lt;/li&gt;
  201. &lt;li&gt;Aqua (default MacOS DE) has extremely limited scripting&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  202. &lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;No Hardware accelerated virtualization on ARM chips&lt;/s&gt; This has since been added in a software update&lt;/li&gt;
  203. &lt;li&gt;Limited third party hardware support (spotty support for headsets with extra buttons, custom mice)&lt;/li&gt;
  204. &lt;li&gt;No Keyboard-only navigation of the desktop
  205. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Handles can also be slow and prevent usage of other apps&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  206. &lt;li&gt;No Clear focus on which apps are controlling input&lt;/li&gt;
  207. &lt;li&gt;Cannot &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/73529/how-to-change-the-default-file-manager-for-osx&quot;&gt;change&lt;/a&gt; default File Manager&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  208. &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Quality&quot;&gt;Quality&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Macs_%26_MacOS:_Greener_Grass%3F&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=4&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Quality&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  209. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;No baked in volume mixer&lt;/li&gt;
  210. &lt;li&gt;Cursor is &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://i.imgur.com/caYo2od.mp4&quot;&gt;jittery&lt;/a&gt; or can have miniature spazzes when computer lags&lt;/li&gt;
  211. &lt;li&gt;Inconsistent DPI in UI elements (notice the &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://i.imgur.com/7Sfr5Pi.png&quot;&gt;middle button&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
  212. &lt;li&gt;Buffered input on laggy programs doesn’t enter when lag clears&lt;/li&gt;
  213. &lt;li&gt;Not all MacOS &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://i.imgur.com/s3PF6xf.png&quot;&gt;text input popup fields&lt;/a&gt; support arrow keys/modifier keys/delete key for navigating text&lt;/li&gt;
  214. &lt;li&gt;Fullscreen apps and integrated popup windows &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://gyazo.com/36634c6be3c763c4698a59db740cc1a8&quot;&gt;work horribly&lt;/a&gt; together&lt;/li&gt;
  215. &lt;li&gt;Resizing panels in official apps does not rebuild &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://gyazo.com/f10d4199c31123b68e133df906874005&quot;&gt;hidden text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  216. &lt;li&gt;&quot;Force Quit Applications&quot; (similar to a Task Manager on Windows) does not list all applications&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  217. &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Anecdotally, this author’s new Macbook Pro came with a broken caps lock key. Apple wanted $150 and 3 weeks to fix it.&lt;/i&gt;
  218. &lt;/p&gt;
  219. &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Efficiency&quot;&gt;Efficiency&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Macs_%26_MacOS:_Greener_Grass%3F&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=5&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Efficiency&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  220. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  221. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  222. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;While KDE is &quot;Simple by default, powerful when needed&quot;, MacOS is &quot;Simple by default&quot; and stops there.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  223. &lt;/p&gt;
  224. &lt;/div&gt;
  225. &lt;/div&gt;
  226. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;There’s no way to consistently bring a running, Ctrl^W’ed app into focus based on its minimized state
  227. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alt tab shows it, but won’t bring it to front&lt;/li&gt;
  228. &lt;li&gt;Clicking it in tray creates a new instance&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  229. &lt;li&gt;No way to minimize a single instance of a program with the keyboard&lt;/li&gt;
  230. &lt;li&gt;Global hotkeys can't be customized in a way that is consistent across different apps&lt;/li&gt;
  231. &lt;li&gt;Global hotkeys have low priority, giving slow Macs different order of operations than new ones&lt;/li&gt;
  232. &lt;li&gt;Updates require reboot&lt;/li&gt;
  233. &lt;li&gt;No way to give apps special permissions without quitting and reopening&lt;/li&gt;
  234. &lt;li&gt;Virtual desktops can't be on top of each other (only side to side)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  235. &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Developer_Experience&quot;&gt;Developer Experience&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Macs_%26_MacOS:_Greener_Grass%3F&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=6&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Developer Experience&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  236. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;MacOS only has basic GNU versions of common commands - &lt;code&gt;find&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt; have different default arguments, and &lt;code&gt;cp&lt;/code&gt; is missing arguments like &lt;code&gt;—parents&lt;/code&gt; altogether
  237. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Part of this has to do with Apple’s &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge/&quot;&gt;hatred&lt;/a&gt; of free software licenses&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  238. &lt;li&gt;Apps deployed on MacOS require paying Apple a yearly license unless you want users to jump through &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/ther0n/UnnaturalScrollWheels/tree/8cedd22f80260e904582e84145a7da9afc4e0757&quot;&gt;hoops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  239. &lt;li&gt;Scrolling through &lt;code&gt;git diff&lt;/code&gt; and other CLI apps can trigger an irritating, non cancelable backlog of MacOS’ &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPDsDn7Terw&quot;&gt;boop&lt;/a&gt; sounds&lt;/li&gt;
  240. &lt;li&gt;The Mac store does not allow Free &amp;amp; Open Source &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/6109/is-it-possible-to-have-gpl-software-in-the-mac-app-store&quot;&gt;GPL&lt;/a&gt; software&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  241. &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Apps&quot;&gt;Apps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Macs_%26_MacOS:_Greener_Grass%3F&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=7&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Apps&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  242. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;No decent screenshot tool that supports uploading to Imgur
  243. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;There are defunct ones and paid versions of free Linux ones&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  244. &lt;li&gt;Toxic software backwards compatibility
  245. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;So bad Windows got the nerve to say theirs was good&lt;/li&gt;
  246. &lt;li&gt;Abandoned 32-bit library support and stopped Wine from running&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  247. &lt;li&gt;Apps tend to be more &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://getgreenshot.org/downloads/&quot;&gt;expensive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  248. &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;If you're using MacOS, see our &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/MacOS#MacOS_Essential_Apps&quot; title=&quot;MacOS&quot;&gt;Essential Apps&lt;/a&gt; list&lt;/i&gt;
  249. &lt;/p&gt;
  250. &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Consistency&quot;&gt;Consistency&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Macs_%26_MacOS:_Greener_Grass%3F&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=8&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Consistency&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  251. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;No way to open the Emoji picker from Launchpad or Spotlight&lt;/li&gt;
  252. &lt;li&gt;App specific whether dragging files between apps on different monitors will work&lt;/li&gt;
  253. &lt;li&gt;No way to have consistent audio output when on high CPU usage&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  254. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;What_does_this_mean_for_developers_using_Mac?&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;What_does_this_mean_for_developers_using_Mac.3F&quot;&gt;What does this mean for developers using Mac?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Macs_%26_MacOS:_Greener_Grass%3F&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=9&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: What does this mean for developers using Mac?&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  255. &lt;p&gt;By using a Mac, your efficiency is capped by your wallet and what Apple allows. If you like forced microbreaks and workflow (or audio) stutters, &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/MacOS&quot; title=&quot;MacOS&quot;&gt;MacOS&lt;/a&gt; just might be for you. MacOS blocks &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://h2x.sh/apple/&quot;&gt;power&lt;/a&gt; users, and while some people claim otherwise, they don't seem to prove it.
  256. &lt;/p&gt;
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  292. <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2021 01:50:04 GMT</pubDate>
  293. <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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  296. <item>
  297. <title>Privacy vs &quot;I have nothing to hide&quot;</title>
  298. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/Privacy_vs_%22I_have_nothing_to_hide%22</link>
  299. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://linuxreviews.org/Privacy_vs_%22I_have_nothing_to_hide%22</guid>
  300. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Liberty-512.png&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/0/0c/Liberty-512.png/32px-Liberty-512.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/0/0c/Liberty-512.png/48px-Liberty-512.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/0/0c/Liberty-512.png/64px-Liberty-512.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; Freedom means “the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint” and liberty means “the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views.” As a Middle Eastern, I understand how much my freedom is valuable and important. Us Middle Easterners are very much familiar with struggles one can have to gain freedom.
  301. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  302. &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://alirezahayati.com/2021/03/25/fight-against-idiocy-support-rms/&quot;&gt;Original story&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://alirezahayati.com/&quot;&gt;Ali Reza Hayati&lt;/a&gt;. Published 2021-05-25, Originally published 2021-05-21.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;This work is available under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;Creative Commons&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution-ShareAlike_International_.28CC_BY-SA.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;Attribution-ShareAlike&lt;/a&gt; license.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  303. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Surveillance cameras with a pidgin on top.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/e/ef/Surveillance_cameras_with_a_pidgin_on_top.jpg/800px-Surveillance_cameras_with_a_pidgin_on_top.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;511&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/e/ef/Surveillance_cameras_with_a_pidgin_on_top.jpg/1200px-Surveillance_cameras_with_a_pidgin_on_top.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/e/ef/Surveillance_cameras_with_a_pidgin_on_top.jpg/1600px-Surveillance_cameras_with_a_pidgin_on_top.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;
  304. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To start this article, I should mention what those words mean. Freedom means “the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint” and liberty means “the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views.” However, from now on, when I use any of those words, I mean both of them. So whether I write freedom or liberty, I mean “freedom and liberty”.
  305. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I value my liberty. I think liberty is what makes humans, humans. As a Middle Eastern, I understand how much my freedom is valuable and important. Us Middle Easterners are very much familiar with struggles one can have to gain freedom.
  306. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We fight for freedom in Middle East. If you’ve followed Middle East news in past 10 years, you surely understand what I’m talking about. Part of our fight for liberty needs us to be anonymous. In Middle East, you may get arrested or executed for simply talking against the dictator, so many of people take anonymity very serious when they talk politics, or anything else.
  307. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anonymity is part of privacy. Anonymity is a choice when someone has privacy. I should explain this too. Being anonymous is a choice while privacy is a right. Someone with privacy can or may be anonymous but one can be identified and known while one still has privacy. I for example am active in a social network with my real name but I still take my privacy seriously, and am careful about my computing and acts.
  308. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now back to what I was saying. In a situation like Middle East, privacy is so essential for living that almost everybody takes it seriously. I don’t mean all people are avoiding Google or Facebook, etc. but I mean they try their best to not give their data to the government.
  309. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;People in Middle East basically understand the value and importance of privacy. However, even in Middle East, many people give me the argument of “I have nothing to hide” and refuse to take their privacy and rights seriously. Many don’t understand with not taking their privacy seriously, what they’re giving away.
  310. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To live as a free human being, and not be controlled or conquered by any person or power, you need privacy.
  311. &lt;/p&gt;
  312. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  313. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  314. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  315. &lt;/p&gt;
  316. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:right;border-top:1px dotted black;&quot;&gt;Edward Snowden&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  317. &lt;/div&gt;
  318. &lt;p&gt;Let’s start arguing against the “I have nothing to hide.”
  319. &lt;/p&gt;
  320. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Privacy_and_protection&quot;&gt;Privacy and protection&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Privacy_vs_%22I_have_nothing_to_hide%22&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=1&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Privacy and protection&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  321. &lt;p&gt;Imagine yourself with your nice family. You and your wife with a beautiful child living in a nice home with peace and happiness, only thing is that all the walls are made by glass and are see-through. Suddenly some day someone knocks on your door and gives you information about anything personal you’ve ever had with your family.
  322. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe someone knowing your bathroom habits or sexual activity or even what you’ve had for breakfast in past 30 days is not a big deal for you, you probably shared that information online with some apps knowingly or unknowingly but aren’t you uncomfortable right now?
  323. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or imagine every time you go to bathroom someone texts you “you’re in bathroom, check this bathroom app or supply” or every time you open the fridge someone calls you, and you can’t refuse to answer, and tells you there’s this great meal or food you should buy. How do you feel?
  324. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or once in while someone publishes some papers about you explaining every single private or public thing you do in your life. I bet you’ll you crazy.
  325. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Without privacy, everything I said will happen or is happening. All advertisements, all products you suggested to you, all stuff you read online, all data breaches, etc. are basically stuff I explained in different forms and the forms I mentioned will eventually happen to you some day if we don’t fight against surveillance and privacy violation.
  326. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You need privacy to avoid unfortunately common threats like identity theft, manipulation through advertisements, discrimination based on your personal information or identity, harassment, and many other real harms that arise from invasions of privacy.
  327. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;http://news.mit.edu/2015/identify-from-credit-card-metadata-0129&quot;&gt;An analysis conducted by MIT researchers&lt;/a&gt; found that “just four fairly vague pieces of information — the dates and locations of four purchases — are enough to identify 90 percent of the people in a data set recording three months of credit-card transactions by 1.1 million users.”
  328. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now let me give you an example. Imagine some basic user of basic Google &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://alirezahayati.com/glossary/#dis-service&quot;&gt;dis-services&lt;/a&gt;, search, drive, calendar, tasks, communications, maps and locations, email, and media (video, photos, music, etc). All these dis-services perse uses are completely under the control of Google and Google is constantly collecting personal information about perse.
  329. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, with analysis of data Google collects about you, it can easily manipulate perse. Controlling what emails perse receives, what news perse reads, checking perse’s behavior, showing ads for that behavior, manipulate perse’s actions with step-by-step impacting perse’s mind, and finally make a new slave for its digital and real-life dominance and modern slavery.
  330. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With all location data Google can even tell when and where you went to toilet, that precise. It can check what did you do and with all data you gave away to it, it even can guess pretty much what you’ve thought about.
  331. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now imagine Google selling or giving away those information and analysis to every person or power or customer it wants and those sell or give away your information to another person or customer or power and this happens again and again and again. Are you really comfortable with this?
  332. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It’s critical to remember that privacy isn’t just about protecting a single and seemingly insignificant piece of personal data, which is often what people think about when they say, “I have nothing to hide.” For example, some may say they don’t mind if a company knows their email address while others might say they don’t care if a company knows where they shop online.
  333. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, these small pieces of personal data are increasingly aggregated by advertising platforms like Google and Facebook to form a more complete picture of who you are, what you do, where you go, and with whom you spend time. And those large data profiles can then lead much more easily to significant privacy harms. If that feels creepy, it’s because it is.
  334. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Back to Middle East. You may live somewhere other than Middle East, somewhere nice like Switzerland or Sweden or Finland etc. and I’m sure you’re always thankful you’re not fighting for your life every single day or you’re not afraid of talking about your prime minister doing some crap works against the public benefit, and I’m happy for you.
  335. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, do you think your politicians or even normal people in the streets would respect you and your rights or even treat you right if your very being wasn’t protected? What would happen if you lose your rights step by step? Are you planning to lose your life and every right you have?
  336. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The “I have nothing to hide” argument means giving away your right for privacy which basically means surveillance and as the next step, violating every other right you have is acceptable no matter how and when and by who it’s being done.
  337. &lt;/p&gt;
  338. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Privacy_is_a_right&quot;&gt;Privacy is a right&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Privacy_vs_%22I_have_nothing_to_hide%22&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=2&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Privacy is a right&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  339. &lt;p&gt;History proves that if you don’t protect your right in something, it will be taken away. Any fundamental right anybody has is gained with fight and war and blood. There was no basic right if in some period in history some people weren’t fighting for that basic right. There was no freedom if some people weren’t fighting for freedom, or weren’t fighting for protecting it, and this applies to other rights as well.
  340. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even in (relatively) free societies and countries, people are constantly fighting to protect their rights even if they’re not threatened. You should have the right to free speech even if you feel you have nothing important to say right now. You should have the fight for going outside even if the weather is not well for you right now.
  341. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even if you don’t want to use a right right now, you should protect it because some day you may want it or you may need to use it. Privacy is one of the basic rights you should protect even if you have nothing private right now, which I think is impossible (to have nothing to hide).
  342. &lt;/p&gt;
  343. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;Privacy_(and_your_data)_is_valuable&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Privacy_.28and_your_data.29_is_valuable&quot;&gt;Privacy (and your data) is valuable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Privacy_vs_%22I_have_nothing_to_hide%22&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=3&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Privacy (and your data) is valuable&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  344. &lt;p&gt;Your privacy and data is valuable much that corporations and governments are willing to pay for it. A simple web search about corporations and governments asking and buying for people’s data gives you enough articles and news reports that you can’t read in lifetime.
  345. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If corporations and governments find value in your data and personal information, why don’t you? Corporations and governments build very detailed and surprisingly accurate profiles of us that are very frightening. With that data, they can control every aspect of our lives by manipulating our minds and behaviors and they are doing it easily because they know or can know everything about us.
  346. &lt;/p&gt;
  347. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;What_should_we_do?&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;What_should_we_do.3F&quot;&gt;What should we do?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Privacy_vs_%22I_have_nothing_to_hide%22&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=4&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: What should we do?&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  348. &lt;p&gt;I know it’s hard to switch but we got to. Stop using dis-services that impose surveillance on you and start using services that respect your right of privacy. Some of them may not be free (as they may cost money) but it’s surely better to pay with money than paying with your data and life.
  349. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Start replacing every software that violates your privacy with &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Free_software&quot; title=&quot;Free software&quot;&gt;free software&lt;/a&gt; that respects your freedom and rights.
  350. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In your offline life, start using stuff that doesn’t require you to identify yourself and avoid stuff that impose surveillance on you or collect your data. There are many things to do or avoid which can be done step by step and I don’t want to mention them one by one but I can give you an example: try to pay cash instead of using debit/credit cards.
  351. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can’t be completely anonymous or private online or offline but that’s not a great argument is it? It’s like arguing that you can’t prevent being shot in a war so why resisting it and get shot only one time and going to get shot seventy bullets.
  352. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course there’s a difference. And much more important than that difference, it is a start for being able to protect ourselves against surveillance completely. It may not happen tomorrow or the day after that, but if we do right, we can expect it in our lifetime.
  353. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Privacy is important. It is essential for human beings. Take it seriously and never think about “I have nothing to hide”, you have everything to hide from those who misuse your trust or mistreat you and they are everywhere.
  354. &lt;/p&gt;
  355. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Some_arguments_by_other_people&quot;&gt;Some arguments by other people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Privacy_vs_%22I_have_nothing_to_hide%22&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=5&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Some arguments by other people&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  356. &lt;p&gt;Edward Snowden remarked “Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” He considered claiming nothing to hide as giving up the right of privacy which the government has to protect. (&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/36ru89/just_days_left_to_kill_mass_surveillance_under/crglgh2/&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;)
  357. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Daniel J. Solove stated in an article for &lt;i&gt;The Chronicle of Higher Education&lt;/i&gt; that he opposes the argument. He believed that a government can leak information about a person and cause damage to that person, or use information about a person to deny access to services, even if a person did not actually engage in wrongdoing. A government can cause damage to one’s personal life through making errors. Solove wrote “When engaged directly, the nothing-to-hide argument can ensnare, for it forces the debate to focus on its narrow understanding of privacy. But when confronted with the plurality of privacy problems implicated by government data collection and use beyond surveillance and disclosure, the nothing-to-hide argument, in the end, has nothing to say.” (&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;)
  358. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Adam D. Moore, author of &lt;i&gt;Privacy Rights: Moral and Legal Foundations&lt;/i&gt;, argued, “it is the view that rights are resistant to cost/benefit or consequentialist sort of arguments. Here we are rejecting the view that privacy interests are the sorts of things that can be traded for security.” He also stated that surveillance can disproportionately affect certain groups in society based on appearance, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion. (Source: page 204 of the book)
  359. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bruce Schneier, a computer security expert and cryptographer, expressed opposition, citing Cardinal Richelieu’s statement “If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged”, referring to how a state government can find aspects in a person’s life in order to prosecute or blackmail that individual. Schneier also argued that the actual choice is between “liberty versus control” instead of “security versus privacy”. (&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.schneier.com/essay-114.html&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;)
  360. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Harvey A. Silverglate estimated that the common person, on average, unknowingly commits three felonies a day in the US. (Source: &lt;i&gt;Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent.&lt;/i&gt; Encounter Books. 2011. ISBN9781594032554.)
  361. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Emilio Mordini, philosopher and psychoanalyst, argued that the “nothing to hide” argument is inherently paradoxical. People do not need to have “something to hide” in order to hide “something”. What is hidden is not necessarily relevant, claims Mordini. Instead, he argues an intimate area which can be both hidden and access-restricted is necessary since, psychologically speaking, we become individuals through the discovery that we could hide something to others. (Source: Mordini “Nothing to Hide — Biometrics, Privacy and Private Sphere.” pp.257-260)
  362. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Julian Assange agreed with Jacob Appelbaum and stated that “Mass surveillance is a mass structural change. When society goes bad, it’s going to take you with it, even if you are the blandest person on earth.” (&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20150410013700/http://wikileaksetc.blogspot.nl/2015/04/courage-foundation-reddit-ama.html&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;)
  363. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ignacio Cofone, a law professor, argued that the argument is mistaken in its own terms because, whenever people disclose relevant information to others, they also disclose irrelevant information. This irrelevant information has privacy costs and can lead to other harms, such as discrimination. (&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://muse.jhu.edu/article/743215&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;)
  364. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Glenn Greenwald did a great TED Talk named &lt;i&gt;why privacy matters&lt;/i&gt; and explains how the argument “only bad people hide their activities and good people have nothing to hide is wrong”. (&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;)
  365. &lt;/p&gt;
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  405. <title>GIMP 2.99.6 Is Released</title>
  406. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/GIMP_2.99.6_Is_Released</link>
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  408. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Gimp-icon.png&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/c/c0/Gimp-icon.png/32px-Gimp-icon.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/c/c0/Gimp-icon.png/48px-Gimp-icon.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/c/c0/Gimp-icon.png/64px-Gimp-icon.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; GIMP 2.99.6 is another development release on the road to a big GIMP 3.0 release with a graphical interface based on GTK 3, a brand new API, a new extension format, Wayland support, year 2038+ compatibility, multi-layer selection and much more. It may be worth a try if you want to know what GIMP 3.0 will be like, but it is nowhere near ready to replace the stable GIMP 2.10.xx branch.
  409. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:Chaekyung&quot; title=&quot;User:Chaekyung&quot;&gt;윤채경 (Yoon Chae-kyung)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#160;2021-05-15 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-05-15.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  410. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/2/2b/GIMP-2.99.6-featuring_Nancy_Mushroom_Kim.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;GIMP-2.99.6-featuring Nancy Mushroom Kim.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/2/2b/GIMP-2.99.6-featuring_Nancy_Mushroom_Kim.jpg/900px-GIMP-2.99.6-featuring_Nancy_Mushroom_Kim.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;477&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/2/2b/GIMP-2.99.6-featuring_Nancy_Mushroom_Kim.jpg/1350px-GIMP-2.99.6-featuring_Nancy_Mushroom_Kim.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/2/2b/GIMP-2.99.6-featuring_Nancy_Mushroom_Kim.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNU_Image_Manipulation_Program&quot; title=&quot;GNU Image Manipulation Program&quot;&gt;GIMP&lt;/a&gt; 2.99.6 featuring &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://twitter.com/NEXT1101&quot;&gt;Nancy Mushroom Kim&lt;/a&gt; tending her garden.&lt;/i&gt;
  411. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The GIMP 2.99.6 release announcement starts off with a big warning about the currently rapidly changing state of GIMP's new plug-in API:
  412. &lt;/p&gt;
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  417. &lt;/td&gt;
  418. &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Warning:&lt;/b&gt;  Many of the third-party plug-ins already ported for GIMP 2.99.2 or 2.99.4 will end up broken, and &lt;b&gt;there is a high chance they will break again in further development releases until we stabilize the API.&lt;/b&gt; We apologize for this, though this is the price of making plug-ins for a program in-development. We figured it’s better to do this now rather than ending up stuck with a bad interface for the years to come (as stability will be ensured once GIMP 3 will be out).
  419. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  420. &lt;p&gt;Reading between the lines in that warning should tell you the most important thing you should know about the latest GIMP 2.99.6 development release: &lt;i&gt;GIMP 3.0 is nowhere near finished, and there is a long way to go before it is.&lt;/i&gt; There will likely be many more 2.99.x releases before GIMP 3.0 is ready for prime time. That doesn't mean you can't try it and play around with it, you can. You will find that it is to a very large degree the exact same GIMP as the current stable 2.10.xx series if you try it, there are no gigantic immediately noticeable differences between the stable branch and the development branch in terms of how the GIMP image editor looks, acts and feels if you ignore the interface scaling issues. That doesn't mean they are the same program, there's plenty of smaller and more subtle differences. Some are enjoyable, others may be deal-breakers.
  421. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The big highlights in GIMP 2.99.6 are pinch gesture support for touch-screens, off-canvas painting guides, a new template selector in the canvas size selector, better handling of the gAMA and cHRM parts of PNG images anda improved paint select tool. Those are just the features that are new to 2.99.6, there is &lt;i&gt;a lot more&lt;/i&gt; in the 2.99.x development branch than the few features introduced in the latest development release.
  422. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wayland support, multi-layer selection support, automatic layer boundary management, support for hot-plugging devices and a brand new Extension Manager available in &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Edit&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;▸ &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Manage Extensions&lt;/span&gt; are a few of the things introduced in earlier 2.99.x development releases.
  423. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The new template selector for re-sizing the image canvas using templates&lt;/b&gt; in GIMP 2.99.6 is described in the GIMP 2.99.6 release-announcement as:
  424. &lt;/p&gt;
  425. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  426. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  427. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;It is common usage to resize your canvas to a standard format, for instance paper formats. For this reason, our recent and quite prolific contributor Stanislav Grinkov implemented a template selector in the Canvas Size dialog.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  428. &lt;/p&gt;
  429. &lt;/div&gt;
  430. &lt;/div&gt;
  431. &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/e/ea/GIMP-2.99.6-canvas-resize-templates.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;GIMP-2.99.6-canvas-resize-templates.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/e/ea/GIMP-2.99.6-canvas-resize-templates.jpg/900px-GIMP-2.99.6-canvas-resize-templates.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;447&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/e/ea/GIMP-2.99.6-canvas-resize-templates.jpg/1350px-GIMP-2.99.6-canvas-resize-templates.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/e/ea/GIMP-2.99.6-canvas-resize-templates.jpg/1800px-GIMP-2.99.6-canvas-resize-templates.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;New image canvas template support in &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNU_Image_Manipulation_Program&quot; title=&quot;GNU Image Manipulation Program&quot;&gt;GIMP&lt;/a&gt; 2.99.6. The image is a picture of &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://twitter.com/NEXT1101&quot;&gt;Nancy Mushroom Kim&lt;/a&gt;'s garden.&lt;/i&gt;
  432. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The image canvas can be re-sized using the &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Image&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;▸ &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Canvas Size&lt;/span&gt; menu. The &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Set Image Canvas Size&lt;/span&gt; dialog box you get when you choose that menu item &lt;i&gt;does have&lt;/i&gt; a new &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Template&lt;/span&gt; selector, &lt;i&gt;but there are no templates available&lt;/i&gt; in the GIMP 2.99.6 release so this new feature is, for now, utterly useless and pointless from a end-users perspective. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNU_Image_Manipulation_Program&quot; title=&quot;GNU Image Manipulation Program&quot;&gt;GIMP&lt;/a&gt; developers will hopefully make some actual templates for standard paper sizes, web banner sizes and things like that available by the time GIMP 3.0 is released.
  433. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The new pinch to zoom support&lt;/b&gt; for those who own touchpads and touch screens is, as of now, only for those using GIMP with the Wayland display server. There is &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/530&quot;&gt;a patch that will likely make it work on X11&lt;/a&gt; available. You are, for now, out of luck if you want to use touch devices with GIMP and you're not using Linux with the Wayland display server. Those using GIMP on X11, Windows and macOS will probably be able to pinch to zoom by the time GIMP 3.0 is released. It looks very much like the X11 patch will get merged in time for GIMP 2.99.7.
  434. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The new &quot;Paint Select tool&quot; does not show up&lt;/b&gt; when you start GIMP 2.99.6. That's not because they forgot to include it, it is because it is &quot;Experimental&quot;. Go to &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Edit&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;▸ &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Preferences&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;▸ &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Playground&lt;/span&gt; and click the check-box next to &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Paint Select tool&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;i&gt;restart GIMP&lt;/i&gt; and it will show up as an icon in the toolbox.
  435. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/0/09/GIMP-2.99.6-paint-select-tool.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;GIMP-2.99.6-paint-select-tool.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/0/09/GIMP-2.99.6-paint-select-tool.jpg/900px-GIMP-2.99.6-paint-select-tool.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;565&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/0/09/GIMP-2.99.6-paint-select-tool.jpg/1350px-GIMP-2.99.6-paint-select-tool.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/0/09/GIMP-2.99.6-paint-select-tool.jpg/1800px-GIMP-2.99.6-paint-select-tool.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;New Paint Select Tool GIMP 2.99.6. Drawing by &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://twitter.com/NEXT1101&quot;&gt;Nancy Mushroom Kim&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;
  436. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actually using the new &quot;Paint Select tool&quot; is slightly annoying. It should, in principle, let you draw around and select whatever you draw. One minor problem with it is that it will show a round circle, indicating that a small circle is selected, where you start drawing around. That's all the visible feedback you get when you draw, that one locked circle where you begun drawing. You can still draw around and select whatever you want, you'll just not see what you're doing until you're done. GIMP will then seemingly free for a few seconds and then it'll present what you blindly selected while drawing with no visual feedback. It &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; be used, but it's clearly not ready for prime time. That's probably why it's a &quot;experimental&quot; feature that's disabled by default.
  437. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/f/f0/Gimp-vs-gimp.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Gimp-vs-gimp.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/f/f0/Gimp-vs-gimp.jpg/900px-Gimp-vs-gimp.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;513&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/f/f0/Gimp-vs-gimp.jpg/1350px-Gimp-vs-gimp.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/f/f0/Gimp-vs-gimp.jpg/1800px-Gimp-vs-gimp.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;GIMP 2.10.24 vs 2.99.6.&lt;/i&gt;
  438. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;GIMP 2.99.6 is, all in all, a product with many clearly signs of it being a &quot;unstable development release&quot;.&lt;/b&gt; It works, and you can toy around with it if you are curious what GIMP 3.0 will look like, but it's not something you should upgrade to right now if you use the stable version of GIMP regularly or casually. The broken interface scaling in GIMP 2.99.6 is one example of something that's a deal-breaker, and that's specially true if you are using a HiDPI monitor. GIMP 2.10.24 lets you set your desired icon size in &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Edit&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;▸ &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Preferences&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;▸ &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Icon Theme&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;i&gt;all parts of the interface&lt;/i&gt; scale correctly depending on what size you set there. There is no such option in &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Edit&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;▸ &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Preferences&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;▸ &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Icon Theme&lt;/span&gt;, or anywhere else, in GIMP 2.99.6. It does detect the displays DPI correctly, and it does apply somewhat acceptable icon sizes &lt;i&gt;some of the time&lt;/i&gt; while &lt;i&gt;not scaling at all&lt;/i&gt; in other cases. The result is a user-interface that's somewhere between hard and impossible to use.
  439. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/0/07/Gimp-vs-gimp2.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Gimp-vs-gimp2.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/0/07/Gimp-vs-gimp2.jpg/900px-Gimp-vs-gimp2.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;486&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/0/07/Gimp-vs-gimp2.jpg 1.5x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;GIMP 2.10.24 (right) vs 2.99.6. (left). You can easily see the toolbox icons in GIMP 2.10.24. There's no chance of seeing what toolboxes you have open or what you select if you click in the cluster of microscopic icons in GIMP 2.99.6&lt;/i&gt;.
  440. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of different issues like this with GIMP 2.99.6 that you won't get frustrated by if you stick with the stable version. Remember that it is a &lt;i&gt;development release&lt;/i&gt; if you install it, don't expect it to be something usable you can use to replace a stable GIMP version.
  441. &lt;/p&gt;
  442. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Installation&quot;&gt;Installation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=GIMP_2.99.6_Is_Released&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=1&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Installation&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  443. &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Windows users can acquire the GIMP 2.99.6 technology from &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/&quot;&gt;www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt; There are no 2.99.6 packages available for macOS at this time.
  444. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Linux users with distributions that have &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Flatpak&quot; title=&quot;Flatpak&quot;&gt;Flatpak&lt;/a&gt; can use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNU_Image_Manipulation_Program&quot; title=&quot;GNU Image Manipulation Program&quot;&gt;GIMP&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Flatpak&quot; title=&quot;Flatpak&quot;&gt;Flatpak&lt;/a&gt; beta repository to install it with:
  445. &lt;/p&gt;
  446. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-bash mw-content-ltr&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;flatpak install https://flathub.org/beta-repo/appstream/org.gimp.GIMP.flatpakref
  447. &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  448. &lt;p&gt;You can add &lt;code&gt;--user&lt;/code&gt; to the &lt;b&gt;&lt;code&gt;flatpak&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/b&gt; command if you want to install it in your &lt;code&gt;$HOME&lt;/code&gt; folder instead of installing it system-wide:
  449. &lt;/p&gt;
  450. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-bash mw-content-ltr&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;flatpak install --user https://flathub.org/beta-repo/appstream/org.gimp.GIMP.flatpakref
  451. &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  452. &lt;p&gt;You can simply run
  453. &lt;/p&gt;
  454. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-bash mw-content-ltr&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;flatpak update
  455. &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  456. &lt;p&gt;to update all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Flatpak&quot; title=&quot;Flatpak&quot;&gt;Flatpak&lt;/a&gt; packages, including GIMP, when new beta versions are released.
  457. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Flatpak&quot; title=&quot;Flatpak&quot;&gt;Flatpak&lt;/a&gt; will install a &lt;code&gt;.desktop&lt;/code&gt; file so GIMP 2.99.6 shows up in your desktop environments menu as &quot;&lt;code&gt;(beta) GNU Image Manipulation Program&lt;/code&gt;&quot;. You can run it manually from a terminal with:
  458. &lt;/p&gt;
  459. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-bash mw-content-ltr&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;flatpak --branch&lt;span class=&quot;o&quot;&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;beta run org.gimp.GIMP
  460. &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  461. &lt;table style=&quot;margin-top:1.4em;margin-bottom:1.4em;border:1px solid black;padding:1em; width: 100%;&quot;&gt;
  462.  
  463. &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style=&quot;vertical-align:top; color:black;&quot;&gt;
  464. &lt;td width=&quot;70&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Kemonomimi rabbit.svg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/7/72/Kemonomimi_rabbit.svg/60px-Kemonomimi_rabbit.svg.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;60&quot; height=&quot;87&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/7/72/Kemonomimi_rabbit.svg/90px-Kemonomimi_rabbit.svg.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/7/72/Kemonomimi_rabbit.svg/120px-Kemonomimi_rabbit.svg.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  465. &lt;/td&gt;
  466. &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Note:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;code&gt;--branch&lt;/code&gt; must be &lt;i&gt;before&lt;/i&gt; &lt;code&gt;run&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Flatpak&quot; title=&quot;Flatpak&quot;&gt;Flatpak&lt;/a&gt; will &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; understand what &lt;code&gt;--branch=&lt;/code&gt; is about if you try &lt;code&gt;flatpak run org.gimp.GIMP --branch=beta&lt;/code&gt;. Also, you don't actually need &lt;code&gt;--branch=beta&lt;/code&gt; unless you have installed more than one &lt;code&gt;org.gimp.GIMP&lt;/code&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Flatpak&quot; title=&quot;Flatpak&quot;&gt;Flatpak&lt;/a&gt;.
  467. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  468. &lt;p&gt;Compiling the source code, which is available at &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/v2.99/&quot;&gt;download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/v2.99/&lt;/a&gt;, would be the only choice if you are using one of the few rare GNU/Linux distributions where &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Flatpak&quot; title=&quot;Flatpak&quot;&gt;Flatpak&lt;/a&gt; can't be used.
  469. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can visit &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.gimp.org/develop/&quot;&gt;www.gimp.org/develop/&lt;/a&gt; if you want to get involved with making GIMP 3.0 a great release. It's written in beautiful C, but you don't need to know C to help out. You can write documentation, improve the translation to your native language and help in many other non-programming ways if you don't know C and you'd like to help out.
  470. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is no release-date set for GIMP 3.0, so all we can say for sure is that it's a long way from being anywhere near ready to be released. Mid-2022 is probably a realistic guesstimate.
  471. &lt;/p&gt;
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  507. <pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2021 15:22:27 GMT</pubDate>
  508. <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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  512. <title>Tor 0.4.5.8 Is Released</title>
  513. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/Tor_0.4.5.8_Is_Released</link>
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  515. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Tor.png&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/1/1f/Tor.png/32px-Tor.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/1/1f/Tor.png/48px-Tor.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/1/1f/Tor.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; The latest Tor daemon has two minor fixes, one for compatibility with the Linux kernels seccomp sandbox and one for newer versions of GNU Autoconf. Tor relay operators who are still haven't upgraded from a Tor version prior to Tor 0.4.5.7 should upgrade to 0.4.5.8 since Tor &amp;lt;=0.4.5.6 has two different denial of service issues.
  516. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:Chaekyung&quot; title=&quot;User:Chaekyung&quot;&gt;윤채경 (Yoon Chae-kyung)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#160;2021-05-14 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-05-14.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  517. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/e/ee/Tor-illustration-03.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Tor-illustration-03.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/e/ee/Tor-illustration-03.jpg/900px-Tor-illustration-03.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;485&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/e/ee/Tor-illustration-03.jpg/1350px-Tor-illustration-03.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/e/ee/Tor-illustration-03.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Tor&quot; title=&quot;Tor&quot;&gt;Tor&lt;/a&gt; illustration by &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://twitter.com/NEXT1101&quot;&gt;Nancy Mushroom Kim&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;
  518. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tor is the actual network software for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Tor&quot; title=&quot;Tor&quot;&gt;Tor&lt;/a&gt; network. It is not the same as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Tor_Browser&quot; title=&quot;Tor Browser&quot;&gt;Tor Browser&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;bundle&lt;/i&gt; end-users use to access the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Tor&quot; title=&quot;Tor&quot;&gt;Tor&lt;/a&gt; network, &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Tor&quot; title=&quot;Tor&quot;&gt;Tor&lt;/a&gt; is just a daemon you run to create a small part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Tor&quot; title=&quot;Tor&quot;&gt;Tor&lt;/a&gt; network. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Tor_Browser&quot; title=&quot;Tor Browser&quot;&gt;Tor Browser&lt;/a&gt; bundle is a &lt;i&gt;bundle&lt;/i&gt; with web browser based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Mozilla_Firefox&quot; title=&quot;Mozilla Firefox&quot;&gt;Mozilla  Firefox&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Tor&quot; title=&quot;Tor&quot;&gt;Tor&lt;/a&gt; daemon configured to run in client mode.
  519. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The latest Tor release is a bit of a yawn. It has a tweak in Tor's support for the Linux kernels seccomp sandbox that lets Tor use seccomp correctly with Glibc 2.33 (&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://bugs.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/40382&quot;&gt;bug 40382&lt;/a&gt;) and a tweak that makes &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html&quot;&gt;GNU Authconf&lt;/a&gt; 2.70+ create the build script correctly (&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://bugs.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/40335&quot;&gt;bug 40335&lt;/a&gt;)
  520. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Tor 0.4.5.7 release two months ago was, unlike this release, &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/The_TorProject_Urges_All_Relay_Operators_To_Upgrade_To_0.4.5.7%2B_Due_To_Denial-Of-Service_Issues&quot; title=&quot;The TorProject Urges All Relay Operators To Upgrade To 0.4.5.7+ Due To Denial-Of-Service Issues&quot;&gt;a important release that fixed two denial of service issues&lt;/a&gt; in prior versions. You should upgrade to 0.4.5.7+ if you are running a Tor relay using Tor &amp;lt;=0.4.5.6.
  521. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Tor project is in the process of deprecating the older v2 format for location hidden services.&lt;/b&gt; You can quickly tell what version of the &lt;code&gt;.onion&lt;/code&gt; service format a location hidden Tor service is using by looking at the address length:
  522. &lt;/p&gt;
  523. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion&lt;/code&gt; would be a v2 address (that's &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/&quot;&gt;DuckDuckGo&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
  524. &lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;cfida4nbhkwohqnm3egmkkco2ey3tqrukt7axssuhovwfnwd6pghcyid.onion&lt;/code&gt; would be a v3 address (it goes nowhere, we just made one to illustrate what it looks like)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  525. &lt;p&gt;You should make sure you are providing services in the newer v3 format if you are providing Tor hidden services, and you should look around for a v3 address if you use some location hidden service by accessing a v2 address. Tor old v2 address format &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/The_Older_v2_Tor_Onion_Domain_Name_Format_Is_Axed_In_The_Latest_Tor_Alpha_Release&quot; title=&quot;The Older v2 Tor Onion Domain Name Format Is Axed In The Latest Tor Alpha Release&quot;&gt;has already been removed from the Tor 0.4.6.x branch&lt;/a&gt; and the other Tor branches, like the stable 0.4.5.x branch, will stop supporting it on October 15th, 2021.
  526. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The source code for Tor 0.4.5.8 can be acquired from &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/&quot;&gt;www.torproject.org/download/tor/&lt;/a&gt;. You may want to skip that link in favor of &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.torproject.org/download/&quot;&gt;www.torproject.org/download/&lt;/a&gt;, where the full &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Tor_Browser&quot; title=&quot;Tor Browser&quot;&gt;Tor Browser&lt;/a&gt; bundle can be acquired, if you want to &lt;i&gt;use&lt;/i&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Tor&quot; title=&quot;Tor&quot;&gt;Tor&lt;/a&gt; network &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/United_Nations_Whisteblower_Says_The_Tor_Anonymity_Network_Is_Great_For_Human_Rights_Work&quot; title=&quot;United Nations Whisteblower Says The Tor Anonymity Network Is Great For Human Rights Work&quot;&gt;for human rights work&lt;/a&gt; or something like that.
  527. &lt;/p&gt;
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  531. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Monero_P2Pool_V1.0_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;Monero P2Pool V1.0 Is Released&quot;&gt;Monero P2Pool V1.0 Is Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Macs_%26_MacOS:_Greener_Grass%3F&quot; title=&quot;Macs &amp;amp; MacOS: Greener Grass?&quot;&gt;Macs &amp;amp; MacOS: Greener Grass?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Privacy_vs_%22I_have_nothing_to_hide%22&quot; title=&quot;Privacy vs &amp;quot;I have nothing to hide&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;Privacy vs &amp;quot;I have nothing to hide&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GIMP_2.99.6_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;GIMP 2.99.6 Is Released&quot;&gt;GIMP 2.99.6 Is Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/New_Versions_Of_The_GNUstep_Base_Library,_GUI_library,_GUI_Backend_And_GNUstep_Gorm_Are_Released&quot; title=&quot;New Versions Of The GNUstep Base Library, GUI library, GUI Backend And GNUstep Gorm Are Released&quot;&gt;New Versions Of The GNUstep Base Library, GUI library, GUI Backend And GNUstep Gorm Are Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/AMDVLK_2021.Q2.2_Driver_Is_Re-Compiled_And_Re-Released&quot; title=&quot;AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 Driver Is Re-Compiled And Re-Released&quot;&gt;AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 Driver Is Re-Compiled And Re-Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;i&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/News&quot; title=&quot;News&quot;&gt;more archive for news stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  561. <pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2021 12:13:54 GMT</pubDate>
  562. <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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  566. <title>New Versions Of The GNUstep Base Library, GUI library, GUI Backend And GNUstep Gorm Are Released</title>
  567. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/New_Versions_Of_The_GNUstep_Base_Library,_GUI_library,_GUI_Backend_And_GNUstep_Gorm_Are_Released</link>
  568. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://linuxreviews.org/New_Versions_Of_The_GNUstep_Base_Library,_GUI_library,_GUI_Backend_And_GNUstep_Gorm_Are_Released</guid>
  569. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Black-and-white-gnu-head.png&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/b/b8/Black-and-white-gnu-head.png/32px-Black-and-white-gnu-head.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/b/b8/Black-and-white-gnu-head.png/48px-Black-and-white-gnu-head.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/b/b8/Black-and-white-gnu-head.png/64px-Black-and-white-gnu-head.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; The GNU project has released several new versions of libraries that are a part of a mysterious project of theirs called &quot;GNUstep&quot;. The &quot;GNUstep&quot; is not a desktop environment or a window manager or an application suite, it is, apparently, just a collection libraries you could use to make those things. The latest GNUstep libraries may be worth exploring if you are a developer who wants to use a graphical toolkit that's not Qt or GTK to create applications that are suitable for those square computer monitors with a 800x600 pixel resolution that were trendy in the early 1990s.
  570. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:Yuri&quot; title=&quot;User:Yuri&quot;&gt;권유리 (Kwon Yu-ri)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#160;2021-05-13 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-05-13.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  571. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/d/db/Gorm-1.2.26_-_on_Gentoo.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Gorm-1.2.26 - on Gentoo.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/d/db/Gorm-1.2.26_-_on_Gentoo.jpg/900px-Gorm-1.2.26_-_on_Gentoo.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;494&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/d/db/Gorm-1.2.26_-_on_Gentoo.jpg/1350px-Gorm-1.2.26_-_on_Gentoo.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/d/db/Gorm-1.2.26_-_on_Gentoo.jpg/1800px-Gorm-1.2.26_-_on_Gentoo.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gorm version 1.2.26 on &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Gentoo_Linux&quot; title=&quot;Gentoo Linux&quot;&gt;Gentoo Linux&lt;/a&gt;. It's hard to tell, but it's the tiny thing circled in red.&lt;/i&gt;
  572. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNU_Project&quot; title=&quot;GNU Project&quot;&gt;GNU Project&lt;/a&gt; released five new packages you've probably never heard of for something called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNUstep&quot; title=&quot;GNUstep&quot;&gt;GNUstep&lt;/a&gt;&quot; last week. Those are:
  573. &lt;/p&gt;
  574. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;GNUstep Base Library 1.28.0&lt;/li&gt;
  575. &lt;li&gt;GNUstep GUI Backend 0.29&lt;/li&gt;
  576. &lt;li&gt;GNUstep GUI Library 0.29&lt;/li&gt;
  577. &lt;li&gt;GNUstep Gorm 1.2.28&lt;/li&gt;
  578. &lt;li&gt;GNUstep Makefile Package 2.9.0&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  579. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;So_What's_A_GNUstep?&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;So_What.27s_A_GNUstep.3F&quot;&gt;So What's A GNUstep?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=New_Versions_Of_The_GNUstep_Base_Library,_GUI_library,_GUI_Backend_And_GNUstep_Gorm_Are_Released&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=1&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: So What&amp;#039;s A GNUstep?&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  580. &lt;p&gt;The first thing that came to mind when &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNUstep&quot; title=&quot;GNUstep&quot;&gt;GNUstep&lt;/a&gt; developer Ivan Vučica sent us a series of release announcements about it was &lt;i&gt;Let's compile this GNUstep desktop environment and give it a try.&lt;/i&gt;. That's not possible because &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNUstep&quot; title=&quot;GNUstep&quot;&gt;GNUstep&lt;/a&gt; it is not a desktop environment or a window manager, it is a application framework somewhat similar to GTK, Qt and wxWidgets.
  581. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There does not appear to be any interesting functional and usable software for casual computer users based on it even though this &quot;GNUstep&quot; thing has been in development for &lt;i&gt;30 years.&lt;/i&gt; There &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNUstep&quot; title=&quot;GNUstep&quot;&gt;GNUstep&lt;/a&gt; programs you can compile and try, and the new &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Gorm&quot; title=&quot;Gorm&quot;&gt;Gorm&lt;/a&gt; release is one of them.
  582. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Gorm&quot; title=&quot;Gorm&quot;&gt;Gorm&lt;/a&gt;, short for &quot;Graphical Object Relationship Modeller&quot;, is a program that lets you make graphical &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNUstep&quot; title=&quot;GNUstep&quot;&gt;GNUstep&lt;/a&gt; programs that are, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Gorm&quot; title=&quot;Gorm&quot;&gt;Gorm&lt;/a&gt;, only suitable for those huge square computers monitors that were common in the 1990s. The reason seems to be that &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Gorm&quot; title=&quot;Gorm&quot;&gt;Gorm&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNUstep&quot; title=&quot;GNUstep&quot;&gt;GNUstep&lt;/a&gt; in general, is modeled after some obscure piece of software called the &quot;NeXTstep Interface Builder&quot; that was released by some equally obscure American &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Corporation&quot; title=&quot;Corporation&quot;&gt;corporation&lt;/a&gt; called NeXT Computer&quot; in the early 1990s. They've re-created the &quot;NeXTstep Interface Builder&quot; with what pixel perfect accuracy, and it doesn't scale, so it's impossible to see what the text in the menus say or what the GUI is about on a modern computer monitor.
  583. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/b/bc/Gorm-1.2.26_-_on_Gentoo_2.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Gorm-1.2.26 - on Gentoo 2.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/b/bc/Gorm-1.2.26_-_on_Gentoo_2.jpg/900px-Gorm-1.2.26_-_on_Gentoo_2.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;505&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/b/bc/Gorm-1.2.26_-_on_Gentoo_2.jpg/1350px-Gorm-1.2.26_-_on_Gentoo_2.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/b/bc/Gorm-1.2.26_-_on_Gentoo_2.jpg/1800px-Gorm-1.2.26_-_on_Gentoo_2.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Gorm&quot; title=&quot;Gorm&quot;&gt;Gorm&lt;/a&gt; and some other tiny &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNUstep&quot; title=&quot;GNUstep&quot;&gt;GNUstep&lt;/a&gt; applications like GMines and GShisen on &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Gentoo_Linux&quot; title=&quot;Gentoo Linux&quot;&gt;Gentoo Linux&lt;/a&gt;. You can kind of tell what the GNUstep applications are all about if you use a magnifying glass or a computer monitor from the 1990s.&lt;/i&gt;
  584. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the new GNUstep releases, &lt;i&gt;&quot;Base Library 1.28.0&quot;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&quot;GUI Backend 0.29&quot;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&quot;GNUstep GUI Library 0.29&quot;&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;&quot;GNUstep Makefile Package 2.9.0&quot;&lt;/i&gt;, are all libraries that can be leveraged to make GNUstep software using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Gorm&quot; title=&quot;Gorm&quot;&gt;Gorm&lt;/a&gt; interface builder.
  585. &lt;/p&gt;
  586. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;A_Brave_New_Desktop_Environment&quot;&gt;A Brave New Desktop Environment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=New_Versions_Of_The_GNUstep_Base_Library,_GUI_library,_GUI_Backend_And_GNUstep_Gorm_Are_Released&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=2&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: A Brave New Desktop Environment&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  587. &lt;p&gt;There are those who are trying to make some serious software based on those &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNUstep&quot; title=&quot;GNUstep&quot;&gt;GNUstep&lt;/a&gt; libraries. The Étoilé project is one of them, their story is that:
  588. &lt;/p&gt;
  589. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  590. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  591. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;Étoilé intends to be an innovative GNUstep based user environment built from the ground up on highly modular and light components with project and document orientation in mind, in order to allow users to create their own workflow by reshaping or recombining provided Services (aka Applications), Components etc. Flexibility and modularity on both User Interface and code level should allow us to scale from PDA to computer environment.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  592. &lt;/p&gt;
  593. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:right;border-top:1px dotted black;&quot;&gt;etoileos.com, quoted May 13th, 2021&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  594. &lt;/div&gt;
  595. &lt;p&gt;The Étoilé Project's website's footer says &lt;code&gt;Copyright © 2010 Étoilé Project.&lt;/code&gt; and it does not appear to have been updated since. You can visit &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;http://etoileos.com/etoile/&quot;&gt;http://etoileos.com/etoile/&lt;/a&gt; if you want to learn more about this endeavor. That website is, of course, not available over HTTPS since they didn't have HTTPS in the early 1990s.
  596. &lt;/p&gt;
  597. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;Get_Involved!&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Get_Involved.21&quot;&gt;Get Involved!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=New_Versions_Of_The_GNUstep_Base_Library,_GUI_library,_GUI_Backend_And_GNUstep_Gorm_Are_Released&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=3&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Get Involved!&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  598. &lt;p&gt;You can head over to &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;http://www.gnustep.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.gnustep.org/&lt;/a&gt; (also only available using HTTP, since, again, they didn't have HTTPS in the early 1990s) if you want to contribute to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNUstep&quot; title=&quot;GNUstep&quot;&gt;GNUstep&lt;/a&gt; project or just give the GNUstep developers a few pointers like the current date and the current state of computer hardware. It's not the 1990s anymore, Michael Jackson is dead and Madonna's become an old unattractive lady, and no amount of botox and plastic surgery is going to make her relevant once again. Trying to re-create the 1990s is pointless. The 1990s were not particularly interesting, and there's nobody alive today who wants to go back to using PDAs and pagers. There are some young misguided people who write long forums posts about their love for CRT computer monitors, but the truth is that they were horrible compared to today's technology and nobody who every used one daily would even remotely consider going back to using a CRT monitor with a 800x600 pixel resolution so they can use applications based on this ancient-looking and long-outdated &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNUstep&quot; title=&quot;GNUstep&quot;&gt;GNUstep&lt;/a&gt; framework that a handful of developers have spent 30 years developing without realizing that &lt;i&gt;computer hardware evolved&lt;/i&gt; during that time.
  599. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Basic display scaling support would, at least, make it possibile &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNUstep&quot; title=&quot;GNUstep&quot;&gt;GNUstep&lt;/a&gt; applications on modern computer displays. Not that it would help all that much, you can't really fix that horrible 1980s/early 1990s look and feel all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GNUstep&quot; title=&quot;GNUstep&quot;&gt;GNUstep&lt;/a&gt; applications share without throwing it all away and starting over.
  600. &lt;/p&gt;
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  641. <title>AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 Driver Is Re-Compiled And Re-Released</title>
  642. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/AMDVLK_2021.Q2.2_Driver_Is_Re-Compiled_And_Re-Released</link>
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  644. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Amdlogo.png&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/5f/Amdlogo.png/32px-Amdlogo.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/5f/Amdlogo.png/48px-Amdlogo.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/5f/Amdlogo.png/64px-Amdlogo.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; AMD has released new binary versions their AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 driver that was originally released on April 28th. We have no idea what, if anything, is different in the new re-release, We can only speculate that the only change in the re-release is that the &quot;new&quot; version is compiled with an updated version of AMD's LLVM compiler fork.
  645. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:Yuri&quot; title=&quot;User:Yuri&quot;&gt;권유리 (Kwon Yu-ri)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#160;2021-05-13 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-05-13.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  646. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/7/72/AMD_fan_d_girls.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;AMD fan d girls.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/7/72/AMD_fan_d_girls.jpg/900px-AMD_fan_d_girls.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;598&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/7/72/AMD_fan_d_girls.jpg/1350px-AMD_fan_d_girls.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/7/72/AMD_fan_d_girls.jpg/1800px-AMD_fan_d_girls.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;AMD driver developers at a trade show.&lt;/i&gt;
  647. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;AMD has made new, updated binary Debian and RedHat RPM packages for version 2021.Q2.2 of their &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/AMDVLK&quot; title=&quot;AMDVLK&quot;&gt;AMDVLK&lt;/a&gt; Vulkan driver for &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/AMD_graphics&quot; title=&quot;AMD graphics&quot;&gt;AMD graphics&lt;/a&gt; cards available at &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/releases/tag/v-2021.Q2.2&quot;&gt;github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/releases/tag/v-2021.Q2.2&lt;/a&gt;.
  648. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Both the new and the new AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 releases have &lt;i&gt;the exact same package names&lt;/i&gt;, and both produce the exact same &lt;b&gt;&lt;code&gt;vulkaninfo&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/b&gt; output (apiVersion 4202670/1.2.174 and driverVersion 8388792/0x8000b8). They sha256sum differs, and so do the binary libraries within them.
  649. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;release notes&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20210428204104/https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/releases/tag/v-2021.Q2.2&quot;&gt;remain the same as they were when 2021.Q2.2 was first released&lt;/a&gt; on April 28th. The old release notes mention that the Vulkan apiVersion (from the Vulkan headers) was bumbed to 1.2.17, that color writes can be enabled dynamically and that there were three minor bug-fixes relating to DCC color compression, the AMD switchable graphics layer being ignored in some cases and out of memory errors if AMDVLK is installed on a machine with no AMD GPU.
  650. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We can only make an educated guess as to why version 2021.Q2.2 was re-released since there is no mention of it what so ever on the release page. AMD &lt;i&gt;replaced the release packages&lt;/i&gt; and called it a day. Our educated guess is that AMD re-compiled it with an updated version of their LLVM compiler fork due to some bug in it that made it produce unfortunate binary code that negatively impacted AMDVLK drivers behavior.
  651. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The binary AMDVLK releases are built from &lt;i&gt;four&lt;/i&gt; different repositories:
  652. &lt;/p&gt;
  653. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/llvm-project/&quot;&gt;github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/llvm-project/&lt;/a&gt; - A special AMD LLVM fork&lt;/li&gt;
  654. &lt;li&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/llpc/&quot;&gt;github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/llpc/&lt;/a&gt; - LLPC, a LLVM-Based Pipeline Compiler maintained by AMD&lt;/li&gt;
  655. &lt;li&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/pal&quot;&gt;github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/pal&lt;/a&gt; - PAL, AMD's Platform Abstraction Library&lt;/li&gt;
  656. &lt;li&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/xgl&quot;&gt;github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/xgl&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;b&gt;XGL, the &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Vulkan&quot; title=&quot;Vulkan&quot;&gt;Vulkan&lt;/a&gt; API layer&lt;/b&gt; that translates Vulkan API commands into platform-independent PAL commands.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  657. &lt;p&gt;There has not been any commits to the XGL and PAL repositories since 2021.Q2.2 was first released on April 28th. Those would be the AMDVLK API layer (XGL) and the platform abstraction layer XGL passes the Vulkan API calls on to (as PAL calls). There have, on the other hand, &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/llpc/commits/dev&quot;&gt;been many changes to the LLPC pipeline compiler&lt;/a&gt; and quite a few to &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/llvm-project/commits/amd-gfx-gpuopen-dev&quot;&gt;AMD's LLVM fork&lt;/a&gt;, including some upstream ones that are specific to the LLVM AMDGPU support. This is why we are guessing that AMD re-compiled and re-released AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 due to some unfortunate bi-effect of a bug in their LLVM fork and/or their LLPC pipeline compiler that's now been fixed.
  658. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can acquire the new binary blob packages for Ubuntu (.deb) and RedHat/Fedora (.rpm) from &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/releases/tag/v-2021.Q2.2&quot;&gt;github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/releases/tag/v-2021.Q2.2&lt;/a&gt;.
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  701. <pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2021 14:56:14 GMT</pubDate>
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  706. <title>AMD Radeon Open Compute 4.2 Is Released</title>
  707. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/AMD_Radeon_Open_Compute_4.2_Is_Released</link>
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  709. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Amdlogo.png&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/5f/Amdlogo.png/32px-Amdlogo.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/5f/Amdlogo.png/48px-Amdlogo.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/5f/Amdlogo.png/64px-Amdlogo.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; The latest AMD ROCm compute stack has nothing new for Linux desktop users, and there is no mention of OpenCL in the release notes. It is still incapable of providing compute capabilities to desktop applications like Blender. Data center customers can enjoy new platform macros and several other improvements to the ROCm tools and libraries.
  710. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:Yuri&quot; title=&quot;User:Yuri&quot;&gt;권유리 (Kwon Yu-ri)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#160;2021-05-13 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-05-13.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  711. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/0/0a/Ethminer-benchmarking-with-rocm-4.2.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Ethminer-benchmarking-with-rocm-4.2.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Ethminer-benchmarking-with-rocm-4.2.jpg/900px-Ethminer-benchmarking-with-rocm-4.2.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;433&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Ethminer-benchmarking-with-rocm-4.2.jpg/1350px-Ethminer-benchmarking-with-rocm-4.2.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Ethminer-benchmarking-with-rocm-4.2.jpg/1800px-Ethminer-benchmarking-with-rocm-4.2.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;ethminer benchmarking with &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Radeon_Open_Compute&quot; title=&quot;Radeon Open Compute&quot;&gt;Radeon Open Compute&lt;/a&gt; 4.2.&lt;/i&gt;
  712. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;AMDs &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Radeon_Open_Compute&quot; title=&quot;Radeon Open Compute&quot;&gt;Radeon Open Compute&lt;/a&gt; (ROCm) is currently the best way to get &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/OpenCL&quot; title=&quot;OpenCL&quot;&gt;OpenCL&lt;/a&gt; 2.0 support on GNU/Linux. That's a bit sad since it is severely lacking in some areas. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/AMD_Radeon_Software_For_Linux_21.10_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;AMD Radeon Software For Linux 21.10 Is Released&quot;&gt;latest AMD Radeon Software For Linux&lt;/a&gt; provides ROCm as the default OpenCL stack. The other alternative for &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/OpenCL&quot; title=&quot;OpenCL&quot;&gt;OpenCL&lt;/a&gt; 2.0 on GNU/Linux with AMD cards, the &quot;orca&quot; driver, is still available in the &quot;AMD Radeon Software For Linux&quot; driver package as a &quot;legacy&quot; option. ROCm is what AMD will be supporting going forward.
  713. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The latest ROCm 4.2 release has nothing new for typical GNU/Linux desktop users. OpenCL is not even mentioned in the release notes. Enabling ROCm 4.2 provided OpenCL as a Cycles device under &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Edit&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;▸ &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Preferences&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;▸ &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;▸ &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Cycles Render Devices&lt;/span&gt; in Blender 2.92 results in a crash. And it doesn't work with DaVinci Resolve 17. Incompatibiltiies with OpenCL desktop applications isn't new to ROCm 4.2, desktop application support is just a use-case we like to test when AMD releases ROCm new versions since it is what's most interesting to non-datacenter users.
  714. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The highlights in ROCm 4.2, targetted at AMDs datacenter customers, are:
  715. &lt;/p&gt;
  716. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;HIP (&quot;&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/Programming_Guides/Programming-Guides.html#hip-faq-porting-guide-and-programming-guide&quot;&gt;Heterogeneous-Computing Interface&lt;/a&gt;&quot;) target support in the platform marcors for HIP projects. &lt;code&gt;HIP_PLATFORM_AMD&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;HIP_PLATFORM_NVIDIA&lt;/code&gt; can now be used to check if a HIP platform targets AMD or Nvidia.&lt;/li&gt;
  717. &lt;li&gt;The HIP header directories have been changed to being platform-specific (&lt;code&gt;amd_detail/&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;nvidia_detail/&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  718. &lt;li&gt;Stream Memory Operations now supports direct direct synchronization between Network Nodes and GPUs using &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/Current_Release_Notes/Current-Release-Notes.html?highlight=hipStreamWaitValue32#hip-stream-memory-operations&quot;&gt;four new APIs&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;code&gt;hipStreamWaitValue32&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;hipStreamWaitValue64&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;hipStreamWriteValue32&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;hipStreamWriteValue64&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
  719. &lt;li&gt;The ROCm Data Center Tool has a new plugin called &quot;Reliability, Accessibility, and Serviceability (RAS)&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;
  720. &lt;li&gt;The ROCm Math and Communication Libraries &lt;code&gt;rocBLAS&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;rocRAND&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;rocSOLVER&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;rocSPARSE&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;hipSPARSE&lt;/code&gt; have all seen minor improvements.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  721. &lt;p&gt;The source code for ROCm 4.2 can be acquired from &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/releases&quot;&gt;github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/releases&lt;/a&gt;. The better option, if you are using Ubuntu, CentOS/RedHat/Fedora or SLES 15, is to add a distribution-specific ROCm 4.2 repositoriy with binary packages using the instructions at &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/Installation_Guide/Installation-Guide.html&quot;&gt;rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/Installation_Guide/Installation-Guide.html&lt;/a&gt;. Do note that ROCm 4.2 installs itself to &lt;code&gt;/opt/rocm-4.2.0/&lt;/code&gt; without making the GNU linker aware of that path, so OpenCL won't work unless you manually add the ROCm library path to your LD configuration:
  722. &lt;/p&gt;
  723. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-bash mw-content-ltr&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;nb&quot;&gt;echo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;s2&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;/opt/rocm-4.2.0/opencl/lib/&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &amp;gt; /etc/ld.so.conf.d/amd-rocm.conf
  724. &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  725. &lt;p&gt;(You can, alternatively, edit &lt;code&gt;/etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl64_40200.icd&lt;/code&gt; so it provides a full path to &lt;code&gt;/opt/rocm-4.2.0/opencl/lib/libamdocl64.so&lt;/code&gt; instead of just &lt;code&gt;libamdocl64.so&lt;/code&gt;)
  726. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The OpenCl 2.0 support ROCm 4.2 provides isn't entirely worthless even though it doesn't work with Blender and a few other desktop application.&lt;/b&gt; It does work fine with LibreOffice Calc, you can run benchmarks in &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/LuxMark&quot; title=&quot;LuxMark&quot;&gt;LuxMark&lt;/a&gt; and you can mine digital currencies like &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Ethereum&quot; title=&quot;Ethereum&quot;&gt;Ethereum&lt;/a&gt; using &lt;b&gt;&lt;code&gt;ethminer&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. It may be worth the trouble of installing it if you have one of the AMD graphics cards it supports.
  727. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;officially&lt;/i&gt; supported &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/AMD_graphics&quot; title=&quot;AMD graphics&quot;&gt;AMD graphics&lt;/a&gt; cards are, as of ROCm 4.2:
  728. &lt;/p&gt;
  729. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Vega (GFX9) GPUs (RX Vega 64, Radeon Instict MI25, Radeon Instinct MI 50, Radeon VII)&lt;/li&gt;
  730. &lt;li&gt;CDNA GPUs (MI100)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  731. &lt;p&gt;There's also &quot;unoffial&quot; perfectly fine support for
  732. &lt;/p&gt;
  733. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Polaris (GFX8) GPUs. Those would be the RX 400/500 series GPUs from some years back&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  734. &lt;p&gt;The ROCm 4.2 release notes also list &quot;unofficial&quot; support for the older Hawaii (GFX7) GPUs such as the R9 390X and the FirePro W9100. ROCm, and the ROCm OpenCL package, hasn't worked with Hawaii GPUs for quite some time, and that's still the case with 4.2. It seems like someone at AMD tested an old ROCm version on a Hawaii GPU years ago and added it to the release notes, and now someone else at AMD keeps blindly copy-pasting it into new release notes even though ROCm hasn't worked with it for more than a year.
  735. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is absolutely no support, &quot;official&quot; or not, for ROCm 4.2 on newer AMD graphics cards like the Radeon RX 5000 and RX 6000 series GPUs (GFX10/GFX10.3) - yet the &lt;i&gt;OpenCL&lt;/i&gt; package from ROCm works fine on those newer totally &quot;unsupported&quot; AMD graphics cards. &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Radeon_Open_Compute&quot; title=&quot;Radeon Open Compute&quot;&gt;Radeon Open Compute&lt;/a&gt; 4.2 is worth a try if you just want OpenCL support on a brand new AMD GPU, though you shouldn't expect that the &lt;i&gt;rest of the ROCm compute stack&lt;/i&gt; works at it should (or at all).
  736. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can read the entirety of the ROCm 4.2 at the top-level page on the GitHub repository at &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm&quot;&gt;github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm&lt;/a&gt;.
  737. &lt;/p&gt;
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  772. <pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2021 09:59:21 GMT</pubDate>
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  777. <title>GNU Chess 6.2.8 Is Released</title>
  778. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/GNU_Chess_6.2.8_Is_Released</link>
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  780. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Chess-icon.png&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/2/29/Chess-icon.png/32px-Chess-icon.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/2/29/Chess-icon.png 1.5x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; Antonio Ceballos from the GNU Chess engine team is &quot;glad&quot; to announce a new GNU Chess release with &quot;Bug fixes mainly in the input processing&quot;. That's the entirety of the changelog since version 6.2.7 was released almost one year ago. The GNU Chess engine was initially released in 1984. It has grown smart during it's 37 years, and you may find that you will have a very hard time beating it.
  781. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:Chaekyung&quot; title=&quot;User:Chaekyung&quot;&gt;윤채경 (Yoon Chae-kyung)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#160;2021-05-10 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-05-10.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  782. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/9/92/Knights-and-GNU_Chess_6.2.8.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Knights-and-GNU Chess 6.2.8.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/9/92/Knights-and-GNU_Chess_6.2.8.jpg/900px-Knights-and-GNU_Chess_6.2.8.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;545&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/9/92/Knights-and-GNU_Chess_6.2.8.jpg/1350px-Knights-and-GNU_Chess_6.2.8.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/9/92/Knights-and-GNU_Chess_6.2.8.jpg/1800px-Knights-and-GNU_Chess_6.2.8.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Knights&quot; title=&quot;Knights&quot;&gt;Knights&lt;/a&gt; chess game with a game against the GNU Chess engine.&lt;/i&gt;
  783. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GNU Chess is a chess &lt;i&gt;engine&lt;/i&gt; primarily made to be used with graphical chess programs like &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Knights&quot; title=&quot;Knights&quot;&gt;Knights&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/XBoard&quot; title=&quot;XBoard&quot;&gt;XBoard&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/PyChess&quot; title=&quot;PyChess&quot;&gt;PyChess&lt;/a&gt;. It does have a built-in text mode where you can play against it by typing in chess moves like &lt;code&gt;f2f4&lt;/code&gt; if you &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; want to. There's even a microscopic chess board available in the text mode and it can be sort-of &quot;graphical&quot; if you start GNU Chess with &lt;code&gt;-g&lt;/code&gt;.
  784. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/a/a9/GNU_Chess_text_mode.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;GNU Chess text mode.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/a/a9/GNU_Chess_text_mode.jpg/900px-GNU_Chess_text_mode.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;461&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/a/a9/GNU_Chess_text_mode.jpg/1350px-GNU_Chess_text_mode.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/a/a9/GNU_Chess_text_mode.jpg/1800px-GNU_Chess_text_mode.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;You can play against GNU Chess using it's built-in text mode if you really want to. You're much better off using a graphical front-end like &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Knights&quot; title=&quot;Knights&quot;&gt;Knights&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;
  785. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The latest GNU Chess 6.2.8 release comes nearly one year after GNU Chess 6.2.7 was released on May 31, 2020. The entirety of the changes between that version and the new version are, by the GNU Chess team, described as:
  786. &lt;/p&gt;
  787. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  788. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  789. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;Bug fixes mainly in the input processing.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  790. &lt;/p&gt;
  791. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:right;border-top:1px dotted black;&quot;&gt;Antonio Ceballos, GNU Chess Team&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  792. &lt;/div&gt;
  793. &lt;p&gt;There may not be much else to change to a chess engine that's been around for 37 years. GNU Chess was originally written by Stuart Cracraft in collaboration with Richard Stallman in 1984. Though.. the modern version isn't related to that version. GNU Chess was re-written by John Stanback before the 2.x series and it was again changed to use a completely new chess engine, based on the Cobalt chess engine written by Chua Kong-Sian, when GNU Chess 5 was released. And that wasn't the end of it, the current GNU Chess 6.x series using a completely different chess engine based on Fabien Letouzey's Fruit engine (Fruit 2.1 to be specific). The first version using the Fruit-based engine, GNU Chess 6.0, was released on April 26th, 2011. That's nearly a decade ago, so there may not be any need to do more with GNU Chess 6.x beyond &quot;Bug fixes mainly in the input processing&quot; at point.
  794. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can acquire the technology by downloading &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/chess/gnuchess-6.2.8.tar.gz&quot;&gt;http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/chess/gnuchess-6.2.8.tar.gz&lt;/a&gt;. The release announcement mentions a link that selects a near-by mirror automatically, &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/chess/gnuchess-6.2.8.tar.gz&quot;&gt;http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/chess/gnuchess-6.2.8.tar.gz&lt;/a&gt;. It doesn't work at the time or writing, but it may or may not work at a later date. The &lt;code&gt;sha256sum&lt;/code&gt; appears to be &lt;code&gt;d50446cda8012240321da39cddbb4df4d08458a8d538a4738882814139583847&lt;/code&gt; (that's what we got, anyway).
  795. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Compiling it is &lt;i&gt;really easy&lt;/i&gt;, it does not have any dependencies beyond a compiler and the tiny 804080 bytes &lt;code&gt;gnuchess-6.2.8.tar.gz&lt;/code&gt; release archive extracts to a tiny 3.8 MiB folder. You can compile it with &lt;code&gt;./configure &amp;amp;&amp;amp; make&lt;/code&gt; in no-time on a 10 year old toaster.
  796. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We recommend using &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Knights&quot; title=&quot;Knights&quot;&gt;Knights&lt;/a&gt; if you want to play against GNU Chess, it is a generally nice chess program with support for online chess servers, multiple chess engines, board themes and everything else a chess program should have. It is way nicer than the text-based interface GNU Chess provides..
  797. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The GNU Chess homepage is at &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.gnu.org/software/chess/&quot;&gt;www.gnu.org/software/chess/&lt;/a&gt; and there is a manual long as a novel available at &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.gnu.org/software/chess/manual/&quot;&gt;www.gnu.org/software/chess/manual/&lt;/a&gt;.
  798. &lt;/p&gt;
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  834. <pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2021 23:46:55 GMT</pubDate>
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  839. <title>Termite Is Dead. Dev Lashes Out At GNOME</title>
  840. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/Termite_Is_Dead._Dev_Lashes_Out_At_GNOME</link>
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  842. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Emblem-videos.svg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/33/Emblem-videos.svg/32px-Emblem-videos.svg.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/33/Emblem-videos.svg/48px-Emblem-videos.svg.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/33/Emblem-videos.svg/64px-Emblem-videos.svg.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; Video from DistroTube: The popular VTE-based terminal emulator known as Termite is now officially dead.  The main dev has decided to stop working on Termite.  He is telling everyone to switch to Alacritty and help contribute to that project.  He also has some not-so-nice things to say about the GNOME project, which maintain VTE.
  843. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;Original story by  &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Distrotube&quot; title=&quot;Distrotube&quot;&gt;Distrotube&lt;/a&gt;. Published 2021-05-09, Originally published 2021-05-08.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;This work is available under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)&lt;/a&gt; license.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  844. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;video id=&quot;mwe_player_0&quot; poster=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/e/ed/DistroTube_-_Termite_Is_Dead_-_Dev_Lashes_Out_At_GNOME.mp4/800px--DistroTube_-_Termite_Is_Dead_-_Dev_Lashes_Out_At_GNOME.mp4.jpg&quot; controls=&quot;&quot; preload=&quot;none&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;450&quot; data-durationhint=&quot;600.492&quot; data-startoffset=&quot;0&quot; data-mwtitle=&quot;DistroTube_-_Termite_Is_Dead_-_Dev_Lashes_Out_At_GNOME.mp4&quot; data-mwprovider=&quot;local&quot;&gt;&lt;source src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/transcoded/e/ed/DistroTube_-_Termite_Is_Dead_-_Dev_Lashes_Out_At_GNOME.mp4/DistroTube_-_Termite_Is_Dead_-_Dev_Lashes_Out_At_GNOME.mp4.480p.vp9.webm&quot; type=&quot;video/webm; codecs=&amp;quot;vp9, opus&amp;quot;&quot; data-title=&quot;SD VP9 (480P)&quot; data-shorttitle=&quot;VP9 480P&quot; data-transcodekey=&quot;480p.vp9.webm&quot; data-width=&quot;854&quot; data-height=&quot;480&quot; data-bandwidth=&quot;574520&quot; data-framerate=&quot;30&quot; /&gt;&lt;source src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/e/ed/DistroTube_-_Termite_Is_Dead_-_Dev_Lashes_Out_At_GNOME.mp4&quot; type=&quot;video/mp4; codecs=&amp;quot;avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2&amp;quot;&quot; data-title=&quot;Original MP4 file, 1,280 × 720 (770 kbps)&quot; data-shorttitle=&quot;MP4 source&quot; data-width=&quot;1280&quot; data-height=&quot;720&quot; data-bandwidth=&quot;769850&quot; data-framerate=&quot;30&quot; /&gt;&lt;source src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/transcoded/e/ed/DistroTube_-_Termite_Is_Dead_-_Dev_Lashes_Out_At_GNOME.mp4/DistroTube_-_Termite_Is_Dead_-_Dev_Lashes_Out_At_GNOME.mp4.720p.vp9.webm&quot; type=&quot;video/webm; codecs=&amp;quot;vp9, opus&amp;quot;&quot; data-title=&quot;HD VP9 (720P)&quot; data-shorttitle=&quot;VP9 720P&quot; data-transcodekey=&quot;720p.vp9.webm&quot; data-width=&quot;1280&quot; data-height=&quot;720&quot; data-bandwidth=&quot;939528&quot; data-framerate=&quot;30&quot; /&gt;&lt;source src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/transcoded/e/ed/DistroTube_-_Termite_Is_Dead_-_Dev_Lashes_Out_At_GNOME.mp4/DistroTube_-_Termite_Is_Dead_-_Dev_Lashes_Out_At_GNOME.mp4.360p.vp9.webm&quot; type=&quot;video/webm; codecs=&amp;quot;vp9, opus&amp;quot;&quot; data-title=&quot;VP9 (360P)&quot; data-shorttitle=&quot;VP9 360P&quot; data-transcodekey=&quot;360p.vp9.webm&quot; data-width=&quot;640&quot; data-height=&quot;360&quot; data-bandwidth=&quot;345760&quot; data-framerate=&quot;30&quot; /&gt;&lt;/video&gt;
  845. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;REFERENCED:
  846. &lt;/p&gt;
  847. &lt;dl&gt;&lt;dd&gt;► &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/thestinger/termite&quot;&gt;https://github.com/thestinger/termite​&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
  848. &lt;dd&gt;► &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty&quot;&gt;https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;
  849. &lt;p&gt;WANT TO SUPPORT DISTROTUBES WORK?
  850. &lt;/p&gt;
  851. &lt;dl&gt;&lt;dd&gt;💰 Patreon: &lt;a class=&quot;external free&quot; href=&quot;https://www.patreon.com/distrotube&quot;&gt;https://www.patreon.com/distrotube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
  852. &lt;dd&gt;💳 Paypal: &lt;a class=&quot;external free&quot; href=&quot;https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&amp;amp;business=derek%40distrotube.com&amp;amp;lc=US&amp;amp;item_name=DistroTube&amp;amp;no_note=0&amp;amp;currency_code=USD&amp;amp;bn=PP-DonationsBF%3Abtn_donateCC_LG.gif%3ANonHostedGuest&quot;&gt;https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&amp;amp;business=derek%40distrotube.com&amp;amp;lc=US&amp;amp;item_name=DistroTube&amp;amp;no_note=0&amp;amp;currency_code=USD&amp;amp;bn=PP-DonationsBF%3Abtn_donateCC_LG.gif%3ANonHostedGuest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
  853. &lt;dd&gt;🛍️ Amazon: &lt;a class=&quot;external free&quot; href=&quot;https://amzn.to/2RotFFi&quot;&gt;https://amzn.to/2RotFFi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
  854. &lt;dd&gt;👕 Teespring: &lt;a class=&quot;external free&quot; href=&quot;https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube&quot;&gt;https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;
  855. &lt;p&gt;DISTROTUBE ON SOCIAL PLATFORMS:
  856. &lt;/p&gt;
  857. &lt;dl&gt;&lt;dd&gt;🗨️ Mastodon: &lt;a class=&quot;external free&quot; href=&quot;https://distrotoot.com/@derek&quot;&gt;https://distrotoot.com/@derek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
  858. &lt;dd&gt;💬 IRC: &lt;a class=&quot;external free&quot; href=&quot;irc://freenode&quot;&gt;irc://freenode&lt;/a&gt; #distrotube&lt;/dd&gt;
  859. &lt;dd&gt;👫 Reddit: &lt;a class=&quot;external free&quot; href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/&quot;&gt;https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
  860. &lt;dd&gt;📽️ LBRY/Odysee: &lt;a class=&quot;external free&quot; href=&quot;https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2&quot;&gt;https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;
  861. &lt;p&gt;DISTROTUBE ON THE WEB:
  862. &lt;/p&gt;
  863. &lt;dl&gt;&lt;dd&gt;🕸️ Website: &lt;a class=&quot;external free&quot; href=&quot;http://distrotube.com/&quot;&gt;http://distrotube.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
  864. &lt;dd&gt;🐿️ Gemini Capsule: &lt;a class=&quot;external free&quot; href=&quot;gemini://distro.tube&quot;&gt;gemini://distro.tube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
  865. &lt;dd&gt;📁 GitLab: &lt;a class=&quot;external free&quot; href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/dwt1&quot;&gt;https://gitlab.com/dwt1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
  866. &lt;dd&gt;🔊 Audio Podcasts: &lt;a class=&quot;external free&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/1263722&quot;&gt;https://www.buzzsprout.com/1263722&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;
  867. &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  868. &lt;/p&gt;
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  901. <pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2021 17:16:55 GMT</pubDate>
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  906. <title>Wine 6.8 Is Released With 35 Bug-Fixes</title>
  907. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/Wine_6.8_Is_Released_With_35_Bug-Fixes</link>
  908. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://linuxreviews.org/Wine_6.8_Is_Released_With_35_Bug-Fixes</guid>
  909. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Exec wine.svg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/b/be/Exec_wine.svg/32px-Exec_wine.svg.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;35&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/b/be/Exec_wine.svg/48px-Exec_wine.svg.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/b/be/Exec_wine.svg/64px-Exec_wine.svg.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; The latest &lt;i&gt;Wine Is Not An Emulator&lt;/i&gt; Windows API re-implementation supports the Map object in JavaScript, libraries are now installed into architecture-specific subdirectories and there are 35 application-specific bug fixes for games and applications like Stone Giant, Age of Empires II, Fifa 11 and Diablo 1.
  910. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:Chaekyung&quot; title=&quot;User:Chaekyung&quot;&gt;윤채경 (Yoon Chae-kyung)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#160;2021-05-09 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-05-09.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  911. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;video id=&quot;mwe_player_1&quot; poster=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/d/d6/Phosphorysation_by_Amnesty_1080p_30fps.mp4/800px--Phosphorysation_by_Amnesty_1080p_30fps.mp4.jpg&quot; controls=&quot;&quot; preload=&quot;none&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;450&quot; data-durationhint=&quot;232.134&quot; data-startoffset=&quot;0&quot; data-mwtitle=&quot;Phosphorysation_by_Amnesty_1080p_30fps.mp4&quot; data-mwprovider=&quot;local&quot;&gt;&lt;source src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/transcoded/d/d6/Phosphorysation_by_Amnesty_1080p_30fps.mp4/Phosphorysation_by_Amnesty_1080p_30fps.mp4.480p.vp9.webm&quot; type=&quot;video/webm; codecs=&amp;quot;vp9, opus&amp;quot;&quot; data-title=&quot;SD VP9 (480P)&quot; data-shorttitle=&quot;VP9 480P&quot; data-transcodekey=&quot;480p.vp9.webm&quot; data-width=&quot;854&quot; data-height=&quot;480&quot; data-bandwidth=&quot;1410872&quot; data-framerate=&quot;30&quot; /&gt;&lt;source src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/transcoded/d/d6/Phosphorysation_by_Amnesty_1080p_30fps.mp4/Phosphorysation_by_Amnesty_1080p_30fps.mp4.720p.vp9.webm&quot; type=&quot;video/webm; codecs=&amp;quot;vp9, opus&amp;quot;&quot; data-title=&quot;HD VP9 (720P)&quot; data-shorttitle=&quot;VP9 720P&quot; data-transcodekey=&quot;720p.vp9.webm&quot; data-width=&quot;1280&quot; data-height=&quot;720&quot; data-bandwidth=&quot;2690696&quot; data-framerate=&quot;30&quot; /&gt;&lt;source src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/transcoded/d/d6/Phosphorysation_by_Amnesty_1080p_30fps.mp4/Phosphorysation_by_Amnesty_1080p_30fps.mp4.1080p.vp9.webm&quot; type=&quot;video/webm; codecs=&amp;quot;vp9, opus&amp;quot;&quot; data-title=&quot;Full HD VP9 (1080P)&quot; data-shorttitle=&quot;VP9 1080P&quot; data-transcodekey=&quot;1080p.vp9.webm&quot; data-width=&quot;1920&quot; data-height=&quot;1080&quot; data-bandwidth=&quot;5251360&quot; data-framerate=&quot;30&quot; /&gt;&lt;source src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/d/d6/Phosphorysation_by_Amnesty_1080p_30fps.mp4&quot; type=&quot;video/mp4; codecs=&amp;quot;avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2&amp;quot;&quot; data-title=&quot;Original MP4 file, 1,920 × 1,080 (9.57 Mbps)&quot; data-shorttitle=&quot;MP4 source&quot; data-width=&quot;1920&quot; data-height=&quot;1080&quot; data-bandwidth=&quot;9567500&quot; data-framerate=&quot;30&quot; /&gt;&lt;source src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/transcoded/d/d6/Phosphorysation_by_Amnesty_1080p_30fps.mp4/Phosphorysation_by_Amnesty_1080p_30fps.mp4.360p.vp9.webm&quot; type=&quot;video/webm; codecs=&amp;quot;vp9, opus&amp;quot;&quot; data-title=&quot;VP9 (360P)&quot; data-shorttitle=&quot;VP9 360P&quot; data-transcodekey=&quot;360p.vp9.webm&quot; data-width=&quot;640&quot; data-height=&quot;360&quot; data-bandwidth=&quot;738672&quot; data-framerate=&quot;30&quot; /&gt;&lt;/video&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Phosphorysation&quot; title=&quot;Phosphorysation&quot;&gt;Phosphorysation&lt;/a&gt; demo scene demo by Amnesty recorded in Wine 6.8 at 1080p 30fps.&lt;/i&gt;
  912. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Wine&quot; title=&quot;Wine&quot;&gt;Wine&lt;/a&gt; lets GNU/Linux users run a lot of &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Microsoft_Windows&quot; title=&quot;Microsoft Windows&quot;&gt;Windows&lt;/a&gt; software at near-native speeds, but there's still a very long way to go until you can open any random piece of Windows software in Wine and expect it to &quot;just work&quot;. Wine 6.8 is another development release with small steps towards full Windows compatibility.
  913. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wine 6.8 has 18 commits to the wined3d DirectX to OpenGL translation layer, support for the map object in JavaScript applications implemented by Jacek Caban, 35 commits to the widely used &lt;code&gt;ntdll&lt;/code&gt; library, a new implementation for &lt;code&gt;msv1_0&lt;/code&gt; written by Hans Leidekker and 35 code commits to the &lt;code&gt;user32&lt;/code&gt; library mostly contributed by Rémi Bernon.
  914. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A total of 35 different people contributed to the Wine 6.8 release. Nine of the top ten were employees of the &lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Codeweavers&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1&quot; class=&quot;new&quot; title=&quot;Codeweavers (page does not exist)&quot;&gt;Codeweavers&lt;/a&gt; corporation.
  915. &lt;/p&gt;
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  917. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-graph mw-graph-always&quot; style=&quot;min-width:400px;min-height:200px&quot; data-graph-id=&quot;c90c0f86a4461f8fb4c65daf09bc9f6b271d35c2&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  918. &lt;/div&gt;
  919. &lt;p&gt;The game and application specific fixes in Wine 6.8 include a fix for GroupMail 5.x crashing at startup, a fix for missing menu options in Explorer++ and Double Commander, a fix for graphical glitches in Crysis Wars, a fix for a crash on startup with Qvodplayer 3.5, a crash for the FIFA 11 fifaconfig configuration tool, a crash fix for Fiablo 1, a &quot;out of memory&quot; fix for Royal Quest, a fix for a startup crash in Solid Edge 2021 and a fix a crash in Star Citizen.
  920. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You still can't use it to play Mario Kart DX12 (&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://mattfiler.itch.io/mario-kart-dx12&quot;&gt;available from itch.io&lt;/a&gt;) or run PC scene demos like &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Fr-063:_Magellan&quot; title=&quot;Fr-063: Magellan&quot;&gt;Fr-063: Magellan&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Freon&quot; title=&quot;Freon&quot;&gt;Freon&lt;/a&gt; with Wine 6.8, and you can't run &lt;i&gt;most&lt;/i&gt; DirectX 9 software like &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Fr-041:_d_e_b_r_i_s&quot; title=&quot;Fr-041: d e b r i s&quot;&gt;Fr-041: d e b r i s&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Quantum&quot; title=&quot;Quantum&quot;&gt;Quantum&lt;/a&gt; without using an alternative DirectX 9 implementation add-on like &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Gallium_Nine&quot; title=&quot;Gallium Nine&quot;&gt;Gallium Nine&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/DXVK&quot; title=&quot;DXVK&quot;&gt;DXVK&lt;/a&gt;.
  921. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;DirectX 9 seems to be an area where &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Wine&quot; title=&quot;Wine&quot;&gt;Wine&lt;/a&gt;'s wined3d DX to OpenGL implementation has some severe shortfalls, most DX9 software fails with Wine 6.8 (and earlier versions) if you use it's built-in wined3d implementation yet the majority of the DX9 software we tried works just fine with both the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Gallium_Nine&quot; title=&quot;Gallium Nine&quot;&gt;Gallium Nine&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/DXVK&quot; title=&quot;DXVK&quot;&gt;DXVK&lt;/a&gt; add-ons. The Unigine products &lt;i&gt;Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Unigine Valley Benchmark 1.0&lt;/i&gt; demonstrate that the wined3d weakness is mostly DX9-specific. Both of those Unigine benchmarks offer a choice between DX9, DX11 and OpenGL. Wine 6.8 will happily run both of them without a hitch if you choose DX11 or OpenGL, yet both fail of you try to run them with DX9.
  922. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Wine&quot; title=&quot;Wine&quot;&gt;Wine&lt;/a&gt; still has a &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; long way to go before you can throw any random piece of Windows software at it and expect it to magically work as good at it does natively on &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Microsoft_Windows&quot; title=&quot;Microsoft Windows&quot;&gt;Windows&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Operating_system&quot; title=&quot;Operating system&quot;&gt;operating systems&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;
  923. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can acquire the source code for Wine 6.8 from &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/6.x/&quot;&gt;dl.winehq.org/wine/source/6.x/&lt;/a&gt; if you want to compile it yourself. A likely better option is to go to &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://wiki.winehq.org/Download&quot;&gt;wiki.winehq.org/Download&lt;/a&gt; where you can find binary packages for &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Debian&quot; title=&quot;Debian&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; (Buster/Bullseye), Ubuntu (18.04 to 21.04), Fedora (33 and 34) and macOS (10.8 to 10.14).
  924. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can learn more about &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Wine&quot; title=&quot;Wine&quot;&gt;Wine&lt;/a&gt; at the Wine website at &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.winehq.org/&quot;&gt;winehq.org&lt;/a&gt; and you can learn more about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/CodeWeavers&quot; title=&quot;CodeWeavers&quot;&gt;CodeWeavers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Corporation&quot; title=&quot;Corporation&quot;&gt;corporation&lt;/a&gt; who makes it at &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.codeweavers.com/&quot;&gt;www.codeweavers.com&lt;/a&gt;. They &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.codeweavers.com/about/jobs&quot;&gt;are hiring&lt;/a&gt; so you could get a job there if you  have &quot;strong C&quot; skills and you're looking for work.
  925. &lt;/p&gt;
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  928. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;comments /&amp;gt;
  929. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;box navigation-not-searchable noprint&quot;&gt;
  930. &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Latest Gaming news&lt;/b&gt;
  931. &lt;/p&gt;
  932. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Wine_6.7_Is_Released_With_44_Bug-Fixes&quot; title=&quot;Wine 6.7 Is Released With 44 Bug-Fixes&quot;&gt;Wine 6.7 Is Released With 44 Bug-Fixes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Wine_6.6_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;Wine 6.6 Is Released&quot;&gt;Wine 6.6 Is Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Mesa_21.0.2_Is_Released_With_Minor_Bug-Fixes_Mostly_For_AMD_Graphics_Hardware&quot; title=&quot;Mesa 21.0.2 Is Released With Minor Bug-Fixes Mostly For AMD Graphics Hardware&quot;&gt;Mesa 21.0.2 Is Released With Minor Bug-Fixes Mostly For AMD Graphics Hardware&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Warzone2100_4.0_Is_Released_With_Vulkan_Support,_Built-In_JavaScript_Engine_And_Other_Major_Improvements&quot; title=&quot;Warzone2100 4.0 Is Released With Vulkan Support, Built-In JavaScript Engine And Other Major Improvements&quot;&gt;Warzone2100 4.0 Is Released With Vulkan Support, Built-In JavaScript Engine And Other Major Improvements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/DevilutionX_1.2_Is_Released_For_The_Enjoyment_Of_Diablo_Fans&quot; title=&quot;DevilutionX 1.2 Is Released For The Enjoyment Of Diablo Fans&quot;&gt;DevilutionX 1.2 Is Released For The Enjoyment Of Diablo Fans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  933. &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Latest News Headlines&lt;/b&gt;
  934. &lt;/p&gt;
  935. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Monero_P2Pool_V1.0_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;Monero P2Pool V1.0 Is Released&quot;&gt;Monero P2Pool V1.0 Is Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Macs_%26_MacOS:_Greener_Grass%3F&quot; title=&quot;Macs &amp;amp; MacOS: Greener Grass?&quot;&gt;Macs &amp;amp; MacOS: Greener Grass?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Privacy_vs_%22I_have_nothing_to_hide%22&quot; title=&quot;Privacy vs &amp;quot;I have nothing to hide&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;Privacy vs &amp;quot;I have nothing to hide&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GIMP_2.99.6_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;GIMP 2.99.6 Is Released&quot;&gt;GIMP 2.99.6 Is Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Tor_0.4.5.8_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;Tor 0.4.5.8 Is Released&quot;&gt;Tor 0.4.5.8 Is Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  936. &lt;i&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/News&quot; title=&quot;News&quot;&gt;news archive for more headlines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  967. <pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2021 12:30:32 GMT</pubDate>
  968. <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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  971. <item>
  972. <title>Rmw v0.7.09 Is Released</title>
  973. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/Rmw_v0.7.09_Is_Released</link>
  974. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://linuxreviews.org/Rmw_v0.7.09_Is_Released</guid>
  975. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Konsole.svg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/9/90/Konsole.svg/32px-Konsole.svg.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/9/90/Konsole.svg/48px-Konsole.svg.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/9/90/Konsole.svg/64px-Konsole.svg.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; The handy rmw (&lt;b&gt;R&lt;/b&gt;e&lt;b&gt;M&lt;/b&gt;ove to &lt;b&gt;W&lt;/b&gt;aste) shell utility for moving files to a waste folder, instead of immediately deleting them, got another minor bug-fix release today. Filenames now display correctly when using the &lt;code&gt;-vvg&lt;/code&gt; option. That's it, that's all there is to rmw v0.7.09.
  976. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:Chaekyung&quot; title=&quot;User:Chaekyung&quot;&gt;윤채경 (Yoon Chae-kyung)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#160;2021-05-07 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-05-07.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  977. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/5/56/Rmw_removing_and_restoring_a_file.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Rmw removing and restoring a file.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/56/Rmw_removing_and_restoring_a_file.jpg/900px-Rmw_removing_and_restoring_a_file.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;333&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/56/Rmw_removing_and_restoring_a_file.jpg/1350px-Rmw_removing_and_restoring_a_file.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/56/Rmw_removing_and_restoring_a_file.jpg/1800px-Rmw_removing_and_restoring_a_file.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;code&gt;rmw&lt;/code&gt; deleting a file, listing the last removed file (&lt;code&gt;rmw -m&lt;/code&gt; and restoring that file (&lt;code&gt;rmw -u&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;
  978. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Rmw&quot; title=&quot;Rmw&quot;&gt;rmw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/b&gt; can be a very handy alternative to the &lt;b&gt;&lt;code&gt;rm&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/b&gt; command. &lt;b&gt;&lt;code&gt;rmw&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/b&gt; moves files to a waste folder instead of deleting them so you can pull them out of one of your waste folders if you find that you regret moving a file you &quot;deleted&quot;. It support purging files from the waste folders and a few other features. It does take some time to set it up if you have multiple partitions because it won't &lt;i&gt;move&lt;/i&gt; files to a waste folder on a different partition - so you will have to set one up on every partition where you'd like to use &lt;b&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Rmw&quot; title=&quot;Rmw&quot;&gt;rmw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.
  979. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The latest  v0.7.09 release has exactly one change:
  980. &lt;/p&gt;
  981. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  982. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  983. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;bugfix: filenames now display correctly when using '-vvg'&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  984. &lt;/p&gt;
  985. &lt;/div&gt;
  986. &lt;/div&gt;
  987. &lt;p&gt;You can acquire the source code for the latest release from &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/theimpossibleastronaut/rmw/releases&quot;&gt;https://github.com/theimpossibleastronaut/rmw/releases&lt;/a&gt;. You will have to get it from there if you want to try it, it's not in the repositories of any GNU/Linux distribution we are aware of.
  988. &lt;/p&gt;
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  990. &lt;div class=&quot;rating-clear&quot;&gt;
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  992. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Monero_P2Pool_V1.0_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;Monero P2Pool V1.0 Is Released&quot;&gt;Monero P2Pool V1.0 Is Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Macs_%26_MacOS:_Greener_Grass%3F&quot; title=&quot;Macs &amp;amp; MacOS: Greener Grass?&quot;&gt;Macs &amp;amp; MacOS: Greener Grass?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Privacy_vs_%22I_have_nothing_to_hide%22&quot; title=&quot;Privacy vs &amp;quot;I have nothing to hide&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;Privacy vs &amp;quot;I have nothing to hide&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GIMP_2.99.6_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;GIMP 2.99.6 Is Released&quot;&gt;GIMP 2.99.6 Is Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Tor_0.4.5.8_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;Tor 0.4.5.8 Is Released&quot;&gt;Tor 0.4.5.8 Is Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/New_Versions_Of_The_GNUstep_Base_Library,_GUI_library,_GUI_Backend_And_GNUstep_Gorm_Are_Released&quot; title=&quot;New Versions Of The GNUstep Base Library, GUI library, GUI Backend And GNUstep Gorm Are Released&quot;&gt;New Versions Of The GNUstep Base Library, GUI library, GUI Backend And GNUstep Gorm Are Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/AMDVLK_2021.Q2.2_Driver_Is_Re-Compiled_And_Re-Released&quot; title=&quot;AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 Driver Is Re-Compiled And Re-Released&quot;&gt;AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 Driver Is Re-Compiled And Re-Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;i&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/News&quot; title=&quot;News&quot;&gt;more archive for news stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  1024. <pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2021 22:53:39 GMT</pubDate>
  1025. <dc:creator></dc:creator>
  1027. </item>
  1028. <item>
  1029. <title>Mesa 21.1.0 Is Released With Variable Rate Shading Support For AMD GPUs, Performance Improvements And New Vulkan Extensions</title>
  1030. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/Mesa_21.1.0_Is_Released_With_Variable_Rate_Shading_Support_For_AMD_GPUs,_Performance_Improvements_And_New_Vulkan_Extensions</link>
  1031. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://linuxreviews.org/Mesa_21.1.0_Is_Released_With_Variable_Rate_Shading_Support_For_AMD_GPUs,_Performance_Improvements_And_New_Vulkan_Extensions</guid>
  1032. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Glxgears.png&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/34/Glxgears.png/32px-Glxgears.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;34&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/34/Glxgears.png/48px-Glxgears.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/34/Glxgears.png/64px-Glxgears.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; Mesa is a swiss army knife of graphics drivers and libraries that are used to provide graphics functionality on all the major GNU/Linux distributions. Mesa 21.1.0 brings Vulkan Variable Rate Shading support for AMD RX 6000 series GPUs, performance increasing graphics optimizations for the OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for both Intel and AMD GPUs, OpenGL 4.6 support in the Zink OpenGL-to-Vulkan translation layer, shader caching for the Lima driver for ARM Mali GPUs and a lot more.
  1033. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:Chaekyung&quot; title=&quot;User:Chaekyung&quot;&gt;윤채경 (Yoon Chae-kyung)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#160;2021-05-06 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-05-09.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  1034. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;video id=&quot;mwe_player_2&quot; poster=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/c/c0/Aurora_by_Excess.mp4/800px--Aurora_by_Excess.mp4.jpg&quot; controls=&quot;&quot; preload=&quot;none&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;450&quot; data-durationhint=&quot;137.05&quot; data-startoffset=&quot;0&quot; data-mwtitle=&quot;Aurora_by_Excess.mp4&quot; data-mwprovider=&quot;local&quot;&gt;&lt;source src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/transcoded/c/c0/Aurora_by_Excess.mp4/Aurora_by_Excess.mp4.480p.vp9.webm&quot; type=&quot;video/webm; codecs=&amp;quot;vp9, opus&amp;quot;&quot; data-title=&quot;SD VP9 (480P)&quot; data-shorttitle=&quot;VP9 480P&quot; data-transcodekey=&quot;480p.vp9.webm&quot; data-width=&quot;854&quot; data-height=&quot;480&quot; data-bandwidth=&quot;694192&quot; data-framerate=&quot;60&quot; /&gt;&lt;source src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/transcoded/c/c0/Aurora_by_Excess.mp4/Aurora_by_Excess.mp4.720p.vp9.webm&quot; type=&quot;video/webm; codecs=&amp;quot;vp9, opus&amp;quot;&quot; data-title=&quot;HD VP9 (720P)&quot; data-shorttitle=&quot;VP9 720P&quot; data-transcodekey=&quot;720p.vp9.webm&quot; data-width=&quot;1280&quot; data-height=&quot;720&quot; data-bandwidth=&quot;1400224&quot; data-framerate=&quot;60&quot; /&gt;&lt;source src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/transcoded/c/c0/Aurora_by_Excess.mp4/Aurora_by_Excess.mp4.1080p.vp9.webm&quot; type=&quot;video/webm; codecs=&amp;quot;vp9, opus&amp;quot;&quot; data-title=&quot;Full HD VP9 (1080P)&quot; data-shorttitle=&quot;VP9 1080P&quot; data-transcodekey=&quot;1080p.vp9.webm&quot; data-width=&quot;1920&quot; data-height=&quot;1080&quot; data-bandwidth=&quot;3259064&quot; data-framerate=&quot;60&quot; /&gt;&lt;source src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/c/c0/Aurora_by_Excess.mp4&quot; type=&quot;video/mp4; codecs=&amp;quot;avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2&amp;quot;&quot; data-title=&quot;Original MP4 file, 1,920 × 1,080 (4.61 Mbps)&quot; data-shorttitle=&quot;MP4 source&quot; data-width=&quot;1920&quot; data-height=&quot;1080&quot; data-bandwidth=&quot;4614598&quot; data-framerate=&quot;60&quot; /&gt;&lt;source src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/transcoded/c/c0/Aurora_by_Excess.mp4/Aurora_by_Excess.mp4.360p.vp9.webm&quot; type=&quot;video/webm; codecs=&amp;quot;vp9, opus&amp;quot;&quot; data-title=&quot;VP9 (360P)&quot; data-shorttitle=&quot;VP9 360P&quot; data-transcodekey=&quot;360p.vp9.webm&quot; data-width=&quot;640&quot; data-height=&quot;360&quot; data-bandwidth=&quot;371208&quot; data-framerate=&quot;60&quot; /&gt;&lt;/video&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The GNU/Linux Flatpak version of the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Aurora&quot; title=&quot;Aurora&quot;&gt;Aurora&lt;/a&gt; by Excess&quot; PC scene demo from 2018. One of the core Mesa developers is secretly a key member of the Norwegian PC scene demo group &quot;Excess&quot;. The demo uses the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Vulkan&quot; title=&quot;Vulkan&quot;&gt;Vulkan&lt;/a&gt; graphics API, through drivers like the Mesa RADV and ANV drivers for AMD and Intel GPUs, to make the graphics appear.&lt;/i&gt;
  1035. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is almost certain that you are using the Mesa graphics library to render everything graphical if you are using a GNU/Linux distribution with everything other than a &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Nvidia&quot; title=&quot;Nvidia&quot;&gt;Nvidia&lt;/a&gt; graphics card. It provides the Vulkan and OpenGL drivers for Intel and AMD graphics cards on x86-64 hardware and a wide variety of other drivers for non-x86 hardware. The latest release is  a big one that is packed with interesting features. You wouldn't know from the release-announcement which, due to time constraints, consisted of:
  1036. &lt;/p&gt;
  1037. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  1038. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  1039. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;Mesa 21.1.0 final is now available! There are a lot of new features, but I unfortunately didn't have time to make a list; I'm sure your favorite news website will pick up the slack.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  1040. &lt;/p&gt;
  1041. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:right;border-top:1px dotted black;&quot;&gt;Mesa-announce, ANNOUNCE mesa 21.1.0 by Eric Engestrom&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  1042. &lt;/div&gt;
  1043. &lt;p&gt;He probably didn't mean us, but we decided to do that homework assignment anyway.
  1044. &lt;/p&gt;
  1045. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;The_Contributors&quot;&gt;The Contributors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Mesa_21.1.0_Is_Released_With_Variable_Rate_Shading_Support_For_AMD_GPUs,_Performance_Improvements_And_New_Vulkan_Extensions&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=1&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: The Contributors&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  1046. &lt;p&gt;135 different people from Valve, Google, AMD, Intel, Redhat, Collabora and other &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Corporation&quot; title=&quot;Corporation&quot;&gt;corporations&lt;/a&gt; contributed to this release. The joint efforts of Valve assets Mike Blumenkrantz, Samuel Pitoiset, Rhys Perry, Connor Abbott and Daniel Schürmann made the Valve corporation the by-far biggest contributor to Mesa 21.1.0. The top 20 contributors by code commits (not lines of code) were:
  1047. &lt;/p&gt;
  1048. &lt;div class=&quot;box&quot;&gt;
  1049. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-graph mw-graph-always&quot; style=&quot;min-width:400px;min-height:450px&quot; data-graph-id=&quot;a069c2f480f2ab37fdea584ad0628011c7852f7f&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1050. &lt;/div&gt;
  1051. &lt;p&gt;The above list is just the top 20 contributors, they do not make the 115 other people made  code commits less important.
  1052. &lt;/p&gt;
  1053. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;New_Vulkan_Features&quot;&gt;New Vulkan Features&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Mesa_21.1.0_Is_Released_With_Variable_Rate_Shading_Support_For_AMD_GPUs,_Performance_Improvements_And_New_Vulkan_Extensions&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=2&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: New Vulkan Features&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  1054. &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The perhaps most interesting feature in this Mesa release is &lt;i&gt;Variable Rate Shading&lt;/i&gt; support for those with the very latest AMD graphics technology.&lt;/b&gt; This new Mesa feature depends on hardware support that is only found in the very latest RX 6000 series GPUs from AMD.
  1055. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Variable Rate Shading is a magic trick that decreases GPU load, thus increasing the frame rate, by doing shader operations in pixels blocks of &lt;code&gt;2x2&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;1x2&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;2x1&lt;/code&gt; instead of doing them one pixel at a time. This magic trick isn't as magic as it may sound, there &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; a noticeable visual impact if you do this across the board. The Mesa developers have therefore come up with some trickery that decides &lt;i&gt;when&lt;/i&gt; variable rate shading is enabled if the feature, which is optional, is enabled with &lt;code&gt;RADV_FORCE_VRS=value&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;code&gt;RADV_FORCE_VRS=2x2&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;RADV_FORCE_VRS=1x2&lt;/code&gt;, etc). The goal of their trickery is to boost performance with variable rate shading when it is possible to do so without any very apparent loss of quality while temporarily (or in some games, permanently) disabling the feature when the RADV driver thinks the visual quality is reduced to a point where it would be very apparent. The end-result is that some games get a 30% performance boost all the the time, some get a performance boost some of the time and some games won't see much of a benefit at all. Variable rate shading is not enabled by default and it is still considered to be a somewhat experimental features. You can enable it and try it with the  &lt;code&gt;RADV_FORCE_VRS=value&lt;/code&gt; is you have a shiny new AMD RX 6000 series GPU. The hardware support this feature requires is simply not there in older &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/AMD_graphics&quot; title=&quot;AMD graphics&quot;&gt;AMD graphics&lt;/a&gt; chips, so there will be no such support &quot;back-ported&quot; to older AMD graphics cards.
  1056. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Variable Rate Shading was done by Samuel Pitoiset at the behest of the Valve &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Corporation&quot; title=&quot;Corporation&quot;&gt;corporation&lt;/a&gt;.
  1057. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The previously introduced &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Mesa&quot; title=&quot;Mesa&quot;&gt;Mesa&lt;/a&gt; support for a resizable graphics memory bar, or &quot;smart access memory&quot; as AMD likes to market it, can be now &lt;i&gt;force-enabled&lt;/i&gt; on seemingly unsupported systems.&lt;/b&gt; That does not mean you can force-enable this feature on any old computer like that Athlon II with a Radeon 7850 GPU you may or may not have in your spare bedroom. This feature is only supported by AMD on AMD 5000 series processors sitting on a motherboard with a B550 or a X570 chipset. There are machines, specifically newer ones with Intel motherboards, that can safely use this feature even if Mesa does not identify those (specially non-AMD) machines as being supported. You can now set the special variable &lt;code&gt;RADV_PERFTEST=sam&lt;/code&gt; to make Mesa try to force-enable the resizable graphics memory bar feature in &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Vulkan&quot; title=&quot;Vulkan&quot;&gt;Vulkan&lt;/a&gt; games and applications. It may or may not do something depending on what hardware you have available. A brand new graphics card is &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; required, it can work on older AMD GPUs, but a new CPU and motherboard with SAM support &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; required.
  1058. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Both the RADV and ANV Vulkan drivers for AMD and Intel graphics chips have gained support for the &lt;code&gt;VK_KHR_workgroup_memory_explicit_layout&lt;/code&gt; Vulkan extension, which allows shaders to explicitly define the layout of workgroup storage class memory and create aliases between variables from that storage class in a compute shader,  and the &lt;code&gt;VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory&lt;/code&gt; extension which allows the use of a null constant initializer on shader workgroup memory variables. The proprietary Nvidia Display Driver for Linux &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Nvidia_Display_Driver_465.24.02_For_Linux_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;Nvidia Display Driver 465.24.02 For Linux Is Released&quot;&gt;gained support for both of those extensions with the release of version 465.24.02 on April 14th, 2021&lt;/a&gt;.
  1059. &lt;/p&gt;
  1060. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Vulkan_Performance_Improvements&quot;&gt;Vulkan Performance Improvements&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Mesa_21.1.0_Is_Released_With_Variable_Rate_Shading_Support_For_AMD_GPUs,_Performance_Improvements_And_New_Vulkan_Extensions&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=3&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Vulkan Performance Improvements&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  1061. &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/3/3c/VTV3D_Radeon_HD-7850_VChamp-2GB-on-a-table.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;VTV3D Radeon HD-7850 VChamp-2GB-on-a-table.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/3c/VTV3D_Radeon_HD-7850_VChamp-2GB-on-a-table.jpg/900px-VTV3D_Radeon_HD-7850_VChamp-2GB-on-a-table.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;504&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/3c/VTV3D_Radeon_HD-7850_VChamp-2GB-on-a-table.jpg/1350px-VTV3D_Radeon_HD-7850_VChamp-2GB-on-a-table.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/3c/VTV3D_Radeon_HD-7850_VChamp-2GB-on-a-table.jpg/1800px-VTV3D_Radeon_HD-7850_VChamp-2GB-on-a-table.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;A VTX3D Radeon HD 7850 Vchamp 2GB GDDR5 on a MSI AM3 motherboard. It's very old, yet it's fully capable of running Vulkan games thanks to the modern Mesa RADV Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs.&lt;/i&gt;
  1062. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The AMD RADV driver got 320 code commits since the Mesa 21.0 release in March.
  1063. Bas Nieuwenhuizen,
  1064. Daniel Schürmann,
  1065. Dave Airlie,
  1066. David McFarland,
  1067. Hans-Kristian Arntzen,
  1068. James Park,
  1069. Jason Ekstrand ,
  1070. Mike Blumenkrantz,
  1071. Rhys Perry,
  1072. Samuel Pitoiset,
  1073. Timur Kristóf ,
  1074. Tony Wasserka and
  1075. Marek Olšák were among the contributors. The result of those efforts is that the AMD RADV driver now performs about 2% better, and the RADV driver now lists &lt;code&gt;conformanceVersion = 1.2.3.0&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;apiVersion 1.2.177&lt;/code&gt;.
  1076. &lt;/p&gt;
  1077. &lt;div class=&quot;box&quot;&gt;
  1078. &lt;table class=&quot;wikitable&quot;&gt;
  1079.  
  1080. &lt;caption&gt;Stormblood Final Fantasy XIV Benchmark, 1080p&lt;br /&gt;Ryzen 5 2600, MSI RX 470
  1081. &lt;/caption&gt;
  1082. &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
  1083. &lt;td&gt;
  1084. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-graph mw-graph-always&quot; style=&quot;min-width:400px;min-height:60px&quot; data-graph-id=&quot;8aa8fc68b7693c45093c468a3527b86137b339da&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1085. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  1086. &lt;table class=&quot;wikitable&quot;&gt;
  1087.  
  1088. &lt;caption&gt;Basemark 1.2.1 &quot;Official&quot; test&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Micro-Star_International&quot; title=&quot;Micro-Star International&quot;&gt;MSI&lt;/a&gt; RX 470 8 GiB
  1089. &lt;/caption&gt;
  1090. &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
  1091. &lt;td&gt;
  1092. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-graph mw-graph-always&quot; style=&quot;min-width:400px;min-height:50px&quot; data-graph-id=&quot;2af324937da94dfaf6c552ffee8ea6b9b9426595&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1093. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  1094. &lt;/div&gt;
  1095. &lt;h4&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Vulkan_Compute_Performance&quot;&gt;Vulkan Compute Performance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Mesa_21.1.0_Is_Released_With_Variable_Rate_Shading_Support_For_AMD_GPUs,_Performance_Improvements_And_New_Vulkan_Extensions&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=4&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Vulkan Compute Performance&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  1096. &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Mesa&quot; title=&quot;Mesa&quot;&gt;Mesa&lt;/a&gt; RADV &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Vulkan&quot; title=&quot;Vulkan&quot;&gt;Vulkan&lt;/a&gt; for AMD graphics cards driver finished our &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/RealSR&quot; title=&quot;RealSR&quot;&gt;RealSR&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;20 anime girls with questionmarks&lt;/i&gt; four seconds faster than Mesa 21.0.1 did while &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/AMDVLK&quot; title=&quot;AMDVLK&quot;&gt;AMDVLK&lt;/a&gt; 2021.Q2.2, released slightly more than a week ago, finished the test 9 seconds &lt;i&gt;slower&lt;/i&gt; than &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/AMDVLK&quot; title=&quot;AMDVLK&quot;&gt;AMDVLK&lt;/a&gt; 2021.Q2.1. There was no change in &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Mesa&quot; title=&quot;Mesa&quot;&gt;Mesa&lt;/a&gt; RADV performance in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Waifu2x&quot; title=&quot;Waifu2x&quot;&gt;waifu2x&lt;/a&gt;-ncnn-vulkan image up-scaling test, it performed about the same. &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/AMDVLK&quot; title=&quot;AMDVLK&quot;&gt;AMDVLK&lt;/a&gt; 2021.Q2.2 showed a performance regression in that one as well.
  1097. &lt;/p&gt;
  1098. &lt;div class=&quot;box&quot;&gt;
  1099. &lt;table class=&quot;wikitable&quot;&gt;
  1100.  
  1101. &lt;caption&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/RealSR&quot; title=&quot;RealSR&quot;&gt;realsr-ncnn-vulkan&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;i&gt;20 anime girls with questionmarks&lt;/i&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;in seconds (less is better)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Micro-Star_International&quot; title=&quot;Micro-Star International&quot;&gt;MSI&lt;/a&gt; RX 470 8 GiB
  1102. &lt;/caption&gt;
  1103. &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
  1104. &lt;td&gt;
  1105. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-graph mw-graph-always&quot; style=&quot;min-width:400px;min-height:90px&quot; data-graph-id=&quot;152fe40ebe0889878fe900e20a4d5ed67cd1d080&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1106. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  1107. &lt;table class=&quot;wikitable&quot;&gt;
  1108.  
  1109. &lt;caption&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Waifu2x&quot; title=&quot;Waifu2x&quot;&gt;waifu2x&lt;/a&gt;-ncnn-vulkan, &lt;i&gt;100 anime girls with questionmarks&lt;/i&gt;, in seconds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Micro-Star_International&quot; title=&quot;Micro-Star International&quot;&gt;MSI&lt;/a&gt; RX 470 8 GiB
  1110. &lt;/caption&gt;
  1111. &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
  1112. &lt;td&gt;
  1113. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-graph mw-graph-always&quot; style=&quot;min-width:400px;min-height:90px&quot; data-graph-id=&quot;400c278eb3e0e5bfb2e2d7d984c653f997aaff21&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1114. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  1115. &lt;/div&gt;
  1116. &lt;p&gt;The Mesa RADV Vulkan driver has always been far superior to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/AMDVLK&quot; title=&quot;AMDVLK&quot;&gt;AMDVLK&lt;/a&gt; driver in compute tasks and that's still the case. Mesa is the obvious choice if you want to do Vulkan compute on an AMD GPU.
  1117. &lt;/p&gt;
  1118. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;OpenGL_Performance_Improvements&quot;&gt;OpenGL Performance Improvements&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Mesa_21.1.0_Is_Released_With_Variable_Rate_Shading_Support_For_AMD_GPUs,_Performance_Improvements_And_New_Vulkan_Extensions&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=5&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: OpenGL Performance Improvements&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  1119. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  1120. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  1121. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;Most of the arm drivers got a lot of internal work too. as did amd and intel. A lot of Marek Olšák's draw overhead reduction work landed.
  1122. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's kind of looking like a harder-better-faster-stronger kind of update more than a bunch of new features&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  1123. &lt;/p&gt;
  1124. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:right;border-top:1px dotted black;&quot;&gt;Anonymous Mesa developer familiar with the matter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  1125. &lt;/div&gt;
  1126. &lt;p&gt;There is nothing groundbreaking for OpenGL applications in Mesa 21.1.0. There is a 0.5% performance-improvement on AMD box with a dedicated graphics card, mostly thanks to optimizations by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Marek_Ol%C5%A1%C3%A1k&quot; title=&quot;Marek Olšák&quot;&gt;Marek Olšák&lt;/a&gt;, and a 0.65% performance-improvement on an old Broadwell-powered Intel laptop we use to test the Intel Iris OpenGL driver.
  1127. &lt;/p&gt;
  1128. &lt;div class=&quot;box&quot;&gt;
  1129. &lt;table class=&quot;wikitable&quot;&gt;
  1130.  
  1131. &lt;caption&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/UNIGINE_Superposition&quot; title=&quot;UNIGINE Superposition&quot;&gt;UNIGINE Superposition&lt;/a&gt; 1.1, 1080p Medium&lt;br /&gt;Ryzen 5 2600, MSI RX 470
  1132. &lt;/caption&gt;
  1133. &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
  1134. &lt;td&gt;
  1135. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-graph mw-graph-always&quot; style=&quot;min-width:400px;min-height:50px&quot; data-graph-id=&quot;853a32ea5e66212ce64de7dd6d5329559a1de6dc&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1136. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  1137. &lt;table class=&quot;wikitable&quot;&gt;
  1138.  
  1139. &lt;caption&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/UNIGINE_Superposition&quot; title=&quot;UNIGINE Superposition&quot;&gt;UNIGINE Superposition&lt;/a&gt; 1.1, 720p Low&lt;br /&gt;Intel i7-5500U
  1140. &lt;/caption&gt;
  1141. &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
  1142. &lt;td&gt;
  1143. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-graph mw-graph-always&quot; style=&quot;min-width:400px;min-height:50px&quot; data-graph-id=&quot;c3bf39e07e3ebe61850f3e3ea7261e78ff6f1269&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1144. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1145. &lt;p&gt;Mesa 21.1 contains a special performance boosting patch for 12th generation Intel graphics chips that was initially submitted by Nanley Chery all the way back in September 2019. The &quot;&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/commit/bc1f715076192d49bcd9dd8e7abfe6c2ec2c2a57&quot;&gt;iris: Support I915_FORMAT_MOD_Y_TILED_GEN12_RC_CCS_CC&lt;/a&gt; patch can boost OpenGL graphics performance between 3.58% and 18.04% on those &lt;i&gt;newer Intel graphics chips&lt;/i&gt;. There is another sort-of performance boosting patch for older Intel chips that &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/commit/1df3a00dcd5c4c86527e1bdc5c800cc09457d1a5&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;disables&lt;/i&gt; dynamic VAO fastpath on older 8th and 9th generation&lt;/a&gt; Intel graphics chips. That previously introduced optimization was meant to boost performance, and it does on &lt;i&gt;most&lt;/i&gt; Intel chips. It turned out that it &lt;i&gt;hurt&lt;/i&gt; performance on older chips so it is now only enabled for newer chips benefiting from that optimization.
  1146. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A total of 78 commits were made to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Intel_Iris&quot; title=&quot;Intel Iris&quot;&gt;Intel Iris&lt;/a&gt; OpenGL driver and a total of 189 commits were made to the AMD RadeonSI OpenGL driver during this release-cycle.
  1147. &lt;/p&gt;
  1148. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;New_OpenGL_Features&quot;&gt;New OpenGL Features&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Mesa_21.1.0_Is_Released_With_Variable_Rate_Shading_Support_For_AMD_GPUs,_Performance_Improvements_And_New_Vulkan_Extensions&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=6&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: New OpenGL Features&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  1149. &lt;p&gt;The Nouveau nvc0 driver (for gm200+) has gained support for &lt;code&gt;GL_EXT_texture_filter_minmax&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;GL_ARB_texture_filter_minmax&lt;/code&gt;.
  1150. &lt;/p&gt;
  1151. &lt;h4&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Zink_Is_Now_OpenGL_4.6_Compliant&quot;&gt;Zink Is Now OpenGL 4.6 Compliant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Mesa_21.1.0_Is_Released_With_Variable_Rate_Shading_Support_For_AMD_GPUs,_Performance_Improvements_And_New_Vulkan_Extensions&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=7&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Zink Is Now OpenGL 4.6 Compliant&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  1152. &lt;p&gt;Zink is a pretty neat technology that lets any graphics system capable of rendering &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Vulkan&quot; title=&quot;Vulkan&quot;&gt;Vulkan&lt;/a&gt; run OpenGL applications &lt;i&gt;at a price&lt;/i&gt;. You can think of it as &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/DXVK&quot; title=&quot;DXVK&quot;&gt;DXVK&lt;/a&gt; (a translation layer that allows &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Wine&quot; title=&quot;Wine&quot;&gt;Wine&lt;/a&gt; to render DirectX 9-11 with &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Vulkan&quot; title=&quot;Vulkan&quot;&gt;Vulkan&lt;/a&gt;) at a graphics stack level.
  1153. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mike Blumenkrantz, the top contributor to Mesa 21.1.0, made a long list of commits to the Mesa Zink driver during this release-cycle. He was not alone, Erik &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Amoeba&quot; title=&quot;Amoeba&quot;&gt;Kusma&lt;/a&gt;&quot; Faye-Lund, Adam Jackson, Antonio Caggiano, Bas Nieuwenhuizen, Dave Airlie, Eric Anholt, Hoe Hao Cheng and Michel Zou all contributed to bumping Zink OpenGL compliance from 4.1 to 4.6 in this release. It is now at a state where you can pretty much run any OpenGL game or application on any system with a feature-complete &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Vulkan&quot; title=&quot;Vulkan&quot;&gt;Vulkan&lt;/a&gt; driver.
  1154. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Zink could potentially be very useful hardware vendors and others who would like to have &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/OpenGL&quot; title=&quot;OpenGL&quot;&gt;OpenGL&lt;/a&gt; available on their shiny new platform without having to develop a specific driver for it, investing in a decent &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Vulkan&quot; title=&quot;Vulkan&quot;&gt;Vulkan&lt;/a&gt; driver would be enough now that Zink can provide &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/OpenGL&quot; title=&quot;OpenGL&quot;&gt;OpenGL&lt;/a&gt; functionality &quot;for free&quot;. It is not as free at is may sound, there is a heavy performance-penalty attached to Zink:
  1155. &lt;/p&gt;
  1156. &lt;div class=&quot;box&quot;&gt;
  1157. &lt;table class=&quot;wikitable&quot;&gt;
  1158.  
  1159. &lt;caption&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Glmark2&quot; title=&quot;Glmark2&quot;&gt;glmark2&lt;/a&gt; --size 1920x1050 --benchmark terrain&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mesa 21.1, Radeon RX 470, Ryzen 2600
  1160. &lt;/caption&gt;
  1161. &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
  1162. &lt;td&gt;
  1163. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-graph mw-graph-always&quot; style=&quot;min-width:400px;min-height:50px&quot; data-graph-id=&quot;1ff5f7065af949787f7e1a37aefb74a421bf46fd&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1164. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  1165. &lt;table class=&quot;wikitable&quot;&gt;
  1166.  
  1167. &lt;caption&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/UNIGINE_Superposition&quot; title=&quot;UNIGINE Superposition&quot;&gt;UNIGINE Superposition&lt;/a&gt; 1.1, 1080p Medium&lt;br /&gt;Ryzen 5 2600, MSI RX 470
  1168. &lt;/caption&gt;
  1169. &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
  1170. &lt;td&gt;
  1171. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-graph mw-graph-always&quot; style=&quot;min-width:400px;min-height:50px&quot; data-graph-id=&quot;c0a688b434ecc3df20c8302bbc201804b1f7ed1f&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1172. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1173. &lt;p&gt;74.54% of the performance you get with the RadeonSI OpenGL driver on a AMD graphics card &lt;i&gt;isn't bad&lt;/i&gt;, but it is 25.45% &lt;i&gt;less&lt;/i&gt; performance than what a native OpenGL driver provides.
  1174. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can test Zink by running applications with the &lt;code class=&quot;mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-bash&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;nv&quot;&gt;MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;o&quot;&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;zink&lt;/code&gt; variable:
  1175. &lt;/p&gt;
  1176. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-bash mw-content-ltr&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;nv&quot;&gt;MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;o&quot;&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;zink glmark2
  1177. &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1178. &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;You will also need &lt;code&gt;DISABLE_MANGOHUD=1&lt;/code&gt; if you use &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/MangoHud&quot; title=&quot;MangoHud&quot;&gt;MangoHud&lt;/a&gt; because it won't play nice with Zink; you will, in fact, not be able to use Zink if you have MangoHud installed unless you disable it.&lt;/i&gt;
  1179. &lt;/p&gt;
  1180. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Lavapipe&quot;&gt;Lavapipe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Mesa_21.1.0_Is_Released_With_Variable_Rate_Shading_Support_For_AMD_GPUs,_Performance_Improvements_And_New_Vulkan_Extensions&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=8&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Lavapipe&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  1181. &lt;p&gt;Lavapipe is a CPU &lt;i&gt;software driver&lt;/i&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Vulkan&quot; title=&quot;Vulkan&quot;&gt;Vulkan&lt;/a&gt;. 121 commits were added to it since since &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Mesa_21_Is_Released_With_Many_Improvements_For_AMD_Graphics_Users&quot; title=&quot;Mesa 21 Is Released With Many Improvements For AMD Graphics Users&quot;&gt;Mesa 21 was released&lt;/a&gt; in March.
  1182. &lt;/p&gt;
  1183. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  1184. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  1185. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;Lavapipe got a ton of work and is now credible enough that we test zink with it in ci. most of the arm drivers got a lot of internal work too. as did amd and intel.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  1186. &lt;/p&gt;
  1187. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:right;border-top:1px dotted black;&quot;&gt;Anonymous Mesa developer familiar with the matter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  1188. &lt;/div&gt;
  1189. &lt;p&gt;Lavapipe is now Vulkan 1.1 compliant and capable of running most &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Vulkan&quot; title=&quot;Vulkan&quot;&gt;Vulkan&lt;/a&gt; games and applications. Rendering on &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Vulkan&quot; title=&quot;Vulkan&quot;&gt;Vulkan&lt;/a&gt; graphics on a CPU with Lavapipe is &lt;i&gt;really slow&lt;/i&gt;, it is not something that provides an alternative to having a graphics card. It is nevertheless a pretty interesting technology from a purely technical point of view.
  1190. &lt;/p&gt;
  1191. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;Gallium_Nine&quot;&gt;Gallium Nine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Mesa_21.1.0_Is_Released_With_Variable_Rate_Shading_Support_For_AMD_GPUs,_Performance_Improvements_And_New_Vulkan_Extensions&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=9&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Gallium Nine&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  1192. &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Gallium_Nine&quot; title=&quot;Gallium Nine&quot;&gt;Gallium Nine&lt;/a&gt; developer Axel Davy managed to squeeze 76 commits into the DirectX 9 Gallium driver. Those include thread submit support and tear-free discard support.
  1193. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is possible to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Gallium_Nine&quot; title=&quot;Gallium Nine&quot;&gt;Gallium Nine&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Wine&quot; title=&quot;Wine&quot;&gt;Wine&lt;/a&gt; using the &quot;Gallium Nine Standalone&quot; library available from &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/iXit/wine-nine-standalone&quot;&gt;github.com/iXit/wine-nine-standalone&lt;/a&gt;. Will have to manually install it yourself unless you are using Slackware, &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Gentoo_Linux&quot; title=&quot;Gentoo Linux&quot;&gt;Gentoo&lt;/a&gt; or Arch. It's not hard, you just have to download and extract the binary package into your &lt;code&gt;$WINE_PREFIX&lt;/code&gt; folder and run a &lt;code&gt;nine-install.sh&lt;/code&gt; script. It doesn't play well with other DX9 add-ons like &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/DXVK&quot; title=&quot;DXVK&quot;&gt;DXVK&lt;/a&gt;, we recommend using a dedicated &lt;code&gt;$WINE_PREFIX&lt;/code&gt; for the DirectX 9 games you want to run with &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Gallium_Nine&quot; title=&quot;Gallium Nine&quot;&gt;Gallium Nine&lt;/a&gt;.
  1194. &lt;/p&gt;
  1195. &lt;div class=&quot;box&quot;&gt;
  1196. &lt;table class=&quot;wikitable&quot;&gt;
  1197.  
  1198. &lt;caption&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Quantum&quot; title=&quot;Quantum&quot;&gt;Quantum&lt;/a&gt; by Outracks vs Nazareth Creations, &lt;b&gt;1080p, Vsync off&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mesa 21.1, MSI RX 570 8 GiB, AMD Ryzen 5 1600x
  1199. &lt;/caption&gt;
  1200. &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
  1201. &lt;td&gt;
  1202. &lt;div class=&quot;mw-graph mw-graph-always&quot; style=&quot;min-width:500px;min-height:300px&quot; data-graph-id=&quot;6f60d7d07f5b1966d751308ad465d69d81d03aa6&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1203. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  1204. &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Wine&quot; title=&quot;Wine&quot;&gt;Wine&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Gallium_Nine&quot; title=&quot;Gallium Nine&quot;&gt;Gallium Nine&lt;/a&gt; is, mostly, slightly faster than &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/DXVK&quot; title=&quot;DXVK&quot;&gt;DXVK&lt;/a&gt; and it is a lot faster than Wine's built-in wined3d DX9 implementation.
  1205. &lt;/p&gt;
  1206. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;OpenCL_Regression&quot;&gt;OpenCL Regression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Mesa_21.1.0_Is_Released_With_Variable_Rate_Shading_Support_For_AMD_GPUs,_Performance_Improvements_And_New_Vulkan_Extensions&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=10&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: OpenCL Regression&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  1207. &lt;p&gt;The Mesa Clover &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/OpenCL&quot; title=&quot;OpenCL&quot;&gt;OpenCL&lt;/a&gt; driver got a lot of improvements from Aaron Watry, Dave Airlie, Edward O'Callaghan, Jérôme Glisse, Karol Herbst, Serge Martin and Vinson Lee. It is still only OpenCL 1.1 compliant - on paper, anyway. The OpenCL features &lt;code&gt;CL_IMAGE_ELEMENT_SIZE&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;CL_IMAGE_ELEMENT_SIZE&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;CL_IMAGE_NUM_SAMPLES&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;CL_MEM_OBJECT_IMAGE1D&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;clEnqueueSVMMigrateMem&lt;/code&gt; have been implemented and Clover is well on it's way to being OpenCL 3.0 compliant. Getting it fully OpenCL 2.0 is, of course, something that needs to happen before that - and it's &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; in this Mesa release. The &lt;i&gt;practical&lt;/i&gt; result of the changes to Clover since Mesa 21.0 is a far less usable OpenCL implementation. &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/LuxMark&quot; title=&quot;LuxMark&quot;&gt;LuxMark&lt;/a&gt; works fine with Clover from Mesa 21.0 as long as you disable the &lt;code&gt;-d-fast-relaxed-math&lt;/code&gt; &quot;optimization&quot;. Disabling &lt;code&gt;-d-fast-relaxed-math&lt;/code&gt; is also needed for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/AMD&quot; class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; title=&quot;AMD&quot;&gt;AMD&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Radeon_Open_Compute&quot; title=&quot;Radeon Open Compute&quot;&gt;ROCm&lt;/a&gt; OpenCL implementation.
  1208. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Clover from Mesa 21.1 rendered a garbled image with 95% &quot;wrong&quot; pixels in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/LuxMark&quot; title=&quot;LuxMark&quot;&gt;LuxMark&lt;/a&gt; 3.1 benchmark.&lt;/b&gt; That's a rather unfortunate regression. All the new OpenCL features don't do much good when the end result is a unusable product.
  1209. &lt;/p&gt;
  1210. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;ARM&quot;&gt;ARM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Mesa_21.1.0_Is_Released_With_Variable_Rate_Shading_Support_For_AMD_GPUs,_Performance_Improvements_And_New_Vulkan_Extensions&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=11&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: ARM&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  1211. &lt;p&gt;The Mesa Lima driver (&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/lima.html&quot;&gt;docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/lima.html&lt;/a&gt;) for &lt;code&gt;Mali-400&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Mali-450&lt;/code&gt;, but not &lt;code&gt;Mali-470&lt;/code&gt;, got a big improvement that reduces the apparently previously very long waiting times in GTK applications by &lt;i&gt;a lot&lt;/i&gt;.
  1212. &lt;/p&gt;
  1213. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  1214. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  1215. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;GTK doesn’t take 18s any more to display the first frame under Lima, that is my personal highlight in Mesa 21.1.0&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  1216. &lt;/p&gt;
  1217. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:right;border-top:1px dotted black;&quot;&gt;Anonymous sources familiar with the matter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  1218. &lt;/div&gt;
  1219. &lt;p&gt;Erico Nunes and Vasily Khoruzhick stood for most of the 26 new commits to the commits to the Lima driver. Eric Anholt contributed a few, Qiang Yu contributed one and Vinson Lee fixed some typographical errors. The most notable commits to Lima were &quot;implement GL_EXT_texture_swizzle&quot;, &quot;introduce fs and vs shader cache&quot; and &quot;implement shader disk cache&quot;. The two latter should improve performance in games since &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Linus_Still_Based_and_Caches_Are_Faster_than_Direct_IO&quot; title=&quot;Linus Still Based and Caches Are Faster than Direct IO&quot;&gt;caches are faster&lt;/a&gt;.
  1220. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Boris Brezillon and Alyssa Rosenzweig, author of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Software_freedom_isn%E2%80%99t_about_licenses_%E2%80%93_it%E2%80%99s_about_power&quot; title=&quot;Software freedom isn’t about licenses – it’s about power&quot;&gt;Software freedom isn’t about licenses – it’s about power&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, contributed a &lt;i&gt;really long&lt;/i&gt; list of commits to the Panfrost driver for Mali graphics chips found in many Chromebooks, the Pinebook Pro and other ARM devices.&lt;/b&gt; The bullet summary is that those with Mali GPU devices get more features and better performance.
  1221. &lt;/p&gt;
  1222. &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-headline&quot; id=&quot;The_Road_To_Mesa_21.2.0&quot;&gt;The Road To Mesa 21.2.0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Mesa_21.1.0_Is_Released_With_Variable_Rate_Shading_Support_For_AMD_GPUs,_Performance_Improvements_And_New_Vulkan_Extensions&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=12&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: The Road To Mesa 21.2.0&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mw-editsection-bracket&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  1223. &lt;p&gt;The Mesa developers have already begun developing the next major Mesa version and it could, possibly, have some interesting features.
  1224. &lt;/p&gt;
  1225. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  1226. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  1227. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;21.2 will be a new feature one for my drivers. 21.2 Will be Released With Apple M1 Support.
  1228. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We merged the initial support on Sunday.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  1229. &lt;/p&gt;
  1230. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:right;border-top:1px dotted black;&quot;&gt;Anonymous source very familiar with the matter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  1231. &lt;/div&gt;
  1232. &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mesa 21.2 will likey be released with support for the graphics chips on the new ARM based Apple M1 machines.&lt;/b&gt; She is a skilled ARM developer who has basically written entire graphics drivers for that platform all by herself, so it is very likely be finished in time. It is not certain, just likely, and there is no way to tell until Mesa 21.2 is released on three months time.
  1233. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The source for for Mesa 21.1.0 can be acquired from &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/mesa-21.1.0.tar.xz&quot;&gt;https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/mesa-21.1.0.tar.xz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GnuPG&quot; title=&quot;GnuPG&quot;&gt;GnuPG&lt;/a&gt; signature file you can use to verify it with &lt;code class=&quot;mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-bash&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;gpg --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve --verify mesa-21.1.0.tar.xz.sig&lt;/code&gt; can be acquired from &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/mesa-21.1.0.tar.xz.sig&quot;&gt;https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/mesa-21.1.0.tar.xz.sig&lt;/a&gt;. It is signed by the current Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom using &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GnuPG&quot; title=&quot;GnuPG&quot;&gt;GnuPG&lt;/a&gt; key &lt;code&gt;8D8E31AFC32428A6&lt;/code&gt; (we are certain that that key belongs to him).
  1234. &lt;/p&gt;
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  1237. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;lt;comments /&amp;gt;
  1238. &lt;div class=&quot;box navigation-not-searchable noprint&quot;&gt;
  1239. &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Latest Graphics news&lt;/b&gt;
  1240. &lt;/p&gt;
  1241. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Wine_6.7_Is_Released_With_44_Bug-Fixes&quot; title=&quot;Wine 6.7 Is Released With 44 Bug-Fixes&quot;&gt;Wine 6.7 Is Released With 44 Bug-Fixes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/AMD_Radeon_Software_For_Linux_21.10_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;AMD Radeon Software For Linux 21.10 Is Released&quot;&gt;AMD Radeon Software For Linux 21.10 Is Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Mesa_21.1.0-rc1_Is_Released_With_Variable_Rate_Shading_Support_For_AMD_GPUs,_New_Vulkan_Extensions_And_More&quot; title=&quot;Mesa 21.1.0-rc1 Is Released With Variable Rate Shading Support For AMD GPUs, New Vulkan Extensions And More&quot;&gt;Mesa 21.1.0-rc1 Is Released With Variable Rate Shading Support For AMD GPUs, New Vulkan Extensions And More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Nvidia_Display_Driver_465.24.02_For_Linux_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;Nvidia Display Driver 465.24.02 For Linux Is Released&quot;&gt;Nvidia Display Driver 465.24.02 For Linux Is Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/The_Mesa_RADV_Vulkan_Driver_Will_Soon_Have_An_Option_That_Boosts_Performance_30%25%2B_On_RDNA2_GPUs_By_Rendering_Less&quot; title=&quot;The Mesa RADV Vulkan Driver Will Soon Have An Option That Boosts Performance 30%+ On RDNA2 GPUs By Rendering Less&quot;&gt;The Mesa RADV Vulkan Driver Will Soon Have An Option That Boosts Performance 30%+ On RDNA2 GPUs By Rendering Less&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  1242. &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Latest News Headlines&lt;/b&gt;
  1243. &lt;/p&gt;
  1244. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Monero_P2Pool_V1.0_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;Monero P2Pool V1.0 Is Released&quot;&gt;Monero P2Pool V1.0 Is Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Macs_%26_MacOS:_Greener_Grass%3F&quot; title=&quot;Macs &amp;amp; MacOS: Greener Grass?&quot;&gt;Macs &amp;amp; MacOS: Greener Grass?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Privacy_vs_%22I_have_nothing_to_hide%22&quot; title=&quot;Privacy vs &amp;quot;I have nothing to hide&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;Privacy vs &amp;quot;I have nothing to hide&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GIMP_2.99.6_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;GIMP 2.99.6 Is Released&quot;&gt;GIMP 2.99.6 Is Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Tor_0.4.5.8_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;Tor 0.4.5.8 Is Released&quot;&gt;Tor 0.4.5.8 Is Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  1245. &lt;i&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/News&quot; title=&quot;News&quot;&gt;news archive for more headlines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  1278. <pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2021 21:20:48 GMT</pubDate>
  1279. <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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  1283. <title>GNU Zile 2.6.2 Is Released</title>
  1284. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/GNU_Zile_2.6.2_Is_Released</link>
  1285. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://linuxreviews.org/GNU_Zile_2.6.2_Is_Released</guid>
  1286. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Black-and-white-gnu-head.png&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/b/b8/Black-and-white-gnu-head.png/32px-Black-and-white-gnu-head.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/b/b8/Black-and-white-gnu-head.png/48px-Black-and-white-gnu-head.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/b/b8/Black-and-white-gnu-head.png/64px-Black-and-white-gnu-head.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; Zile is a very minimal Emacs clone that is described in the brief manual page as &quot;Zile Is Lossy Emacs&quot;. Zile developer Reuben Thomas is &quot;happy to announce a shiny new 2.6.2 release of GNU Zile&quot; is exactly one bug-fix. And that's it.
  1287. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:Yuri&quot; title=&quot;User:Yuri&quot;&gt;권유리 (Kwon Yu-ri)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#160;2021-05-05 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-05-05.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  1288. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/3/3a/Zile-interject.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Zile-interject.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/3a/Zile-interject.jpg/900px-Zile-interject.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;488&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/3a/Zile-interject.jpg/1350px-Zile-interject.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/3a/Zile-interject.jpg/1800px-Zile-interject.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Zile 2.6.2 editing a random text file named &quot;interject.txt&quot;.&lt;/i&gt;
  1289. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Zile is a very minimal console text editor with many of the usual Emacs keys such as &lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;x&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;f&lt;/kbd&gt; to visit a new file, &lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;x&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;i&lt;/kbd&gt; to insert a file, &lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;x&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;c&lt;/kbd&gt; to quit and so on.
  1290. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The latest Zile release has exactly one change, a single bug-fix that is described as:
  1291. &lt;/p&gt;
  1292. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  1293. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  1294. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;Fix bug #60519, introduced in 2.6.0, where visiting a file that contained no line endings would cause a null pointer dereference.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  1295. &lt;/p&gt;
  1296. &lt;/div&gt;
  1297. &lt;/div&gt;
  1298. &lt;p&gt;Zile is, of course, not a &lt;i&gt;complete&lt;/i&gt; Emacs clone, it is a &lt;i&gt;minimal&lt;/i&gt; one. There is no web browser, calculator, calendar or games included. We leave it up to you to pounder why Emacs has those features and how essential they really are to a &lt;i&gt;text editor&lt;/i&gt;.
  1299. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The lack of games and other text editor features makes Zile a quick &lt;b&gt;&lt;code&gt;./configure &amp;amp;&amp;amp; make&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/b&gt; compile that produces a decently small 372K binary. You will need to have the libgee GObject collection library and, for some reason, help2man installed before you compile it. You can &lt;b&gt;&lt;code&gt;strip --strip-unneeded zile&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/b&gt; the binary down to 308K if you want to make it slightly smaller.
  1300. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A really brief test of Zile 2.6.2 reveals that it has some minor issues with modern luxuries like Unicode.
  1301. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As an example of odd character-issues, opening a file with:
  1302. &lt;/p&gt;
  1303. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  1304. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  1305. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  1306. &lt;/p&gt;
  1307. &lt;/div&gt;
  1308. &lt;/div&gt;
  1309. &lt;p&gt;..becomes..
  1310. &lt;/p&gt;
  1311. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  1312. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  1313. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;I\342\200\231d just like to interject for a moment. What you\342\200\231re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I\342\200\231ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  1314. &lt;/p&gt;
  1315. &lt;/div&gt;
  1316. &lt;/div&gt;
  1317. &lt;p&gt;..when it's opened in Zile 2.6.2. Still, Zile 2.6.2 &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; much better than the version you will typically get if you install Zile on your average GNU/Linux distribution. Ubuntu 21.04 offers version 2.4.15, Ubuntu 20.04 offers 2.4.14 and the &quot;brand new&quot; Fedora 34 offers 2.4.14. Zile 2.4.14 was released in October 2017 and 2.4.15 was released on November 2020.
  1318. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You really should compile Zile from source if you are interested in testing it and perhaps using regularly, it's a rather obscure little text editor that's clearly not prioritized or maintained by &lt;i&gt;most&lt;/i&gt; GNU/Linux distributions. Something called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Arch_Linux:_Past,_Present_and_Future&quot; title=&quot;Arch Linux: Past, Present and Future&quot;&gt;Arch&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, known for &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/How_Arch_Linux_Manage_Their_Servers:_%22Infrastructure_at_Arch:_Making_servers_go_brrrrr%22&quot; title=&quot;How Arch Linux Manage Their Servers: &amp;quot;Infrastructure at Arch: Making servers go brrrrr&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;servers that go &quot;brrrrr&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, seems to be the only distribution with a reasonably new Zile version in it's repositories (Arch is currently offering 2.6.1, and it will likely get 2.6.2 soon).
  1319. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The source code for Zile 2.6.2 can be acquired from &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/zile/zile-2.6.2.tar.gz&quot;&gt;ftpmirror.gnu.org/zile/zile-2.6.2.tar.gz&lt;/a&gt; and there is also a signature file at &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/zile/zile-2.6.2.tar.gz.sig&quot;&gt;ftpmirror.gnu.org/zile/zile-2.6.2.tar.gz.sig&lt;/a&gt; that you can use to &quot;verify&quot; that whoever holds the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GnuPG&quot; title=&quot;GnuPG&quot;&gt;GnuPG&lt;/a&gt; key &lt;code&gt;4C8EF3DA3FD37230&lt;/code&gt; signed it by running &lt;code&gt;gpg --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve  --verify zile-2.6.2.tar.gz.sig&lt;/code&gt; (We have no reason to believe &lt;code&gt;4C8EF3DA3FD37230&lt;/code&gt; doesn't belong to Reuben Thomas, we have no idea one way or the other).
  1320. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Zile project page is at &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/zile/&quot;&gt;savannah.gnu.org/projects/zile/&lt;/a&gt;.
  1321. &lt;/p&gt;
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  1357. <pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 17:03:04 GMT</pubDate>
  1358. <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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  1362. <title>QEMU 6.0 Is Released With A Long List Of New Features</title>
  1363. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/QEMU_6.0_Is_Released_With_A_Long_List_Of_New_Features</link>
  1364. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://linuxreviews.org/QEMU_6.0_Is_Released_With_A_Long_List_Of_New_Features</guid>
  1365. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Cpu-icon2.png&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/50/Cpu-icon2.png/32px-Cpu-icon2.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/50/Cpu-icon2.png/48px-Cpu-icon2.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/50/Cpu-icon2.png/64px-Cpu-icon2.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; QEMU 6.0 is a huge release with a very long list of improvements for everyone using this powerful multi-platform full system emulator to run operating systems for Arm, PowerPC, RISC-V, s390, SPARC, x86 and other systems QEMU supports on Linux, Windows or macOS.
  1366. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/2/28/QEMU-gentoo.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;QEMU-gentoo.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/2/28/QEMU-gentoo.jpg/900px-QEMU-gentoo.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;599&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/2/28/QEMU-gentoo.jpg/1350px-QEMU-gentoo.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/2/28/QEMU-gentoo.jpg/1800px-QEMU-gentoo.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Gentoo_Linux&quot; title=&quot;Gentoo Linux&quot;&gt;Gentoo Linux&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/QEMU&quot; title=&quot;QEMU&quot;&gt;QEMU&lt;/a&gt; 5.2.0.&lt;/i&gt;
  1367. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/QEMU&quot; title=&quot;QEMU&quot;&gt;QEMU&lt;/a&gt; is a multi-platform full system emulator capable of hardware virtualization on &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Intel&quot; title=&quot;Intel&quot;&gt;Intel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/AMD&quot; class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; title=&quot;AMD&quot;&gt;AMD&lt;/a&gt; x86-64 machines thanks to the Linux kernel's KVM facility. It is more like &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/DOSBox&quot; title=&quot;DOSBox&quot;&gt;DOSBox&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/MAME&quot; title=&quot;MAME&quot;&gt;MAME&lt;/a&gt; in capabilities, even though it can be used for virtualization the same way VirtualBox works. &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/QEMU&quot; title=&quot;QEMU&quot;&gt;QEMU&lt;/a&gt; can be used to run x86-64 operating systems on x86-64 machines &lt;i&gt;with virtualization&lt;/i&gt; or entirely foreign architectures like ARM on any machines capable of running QEMU &lt;i&gt;without&lt;/i&gt; virtualization.
  1368. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The latest &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/QEMU&quot; title=&quot;QEMU&quot;&gt;QEMU&lt;/a&gt; 6.0 release is a &lt;i&gt;big&lt;/i&gt; release with a &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/6.0&quot;&gt;pages upon pages long changelog&lt;/a&gt;.
  1369. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some of the highlights are:
  1370. &lt;/p&gt;
  1371. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The QEMU emulated NVMe controller is now compliant with NVMe version 1.4, and NVM Subsystems, multipath I/O and namespace sharing have been implemented.&lt;/li&gt;
  1372. &lt;li&gt;Background RAM snapshots using the Userfaultfd-wp (UFFD-WP) feature for making memory temporarily write-protected that was introduced in Linux 5.8.&lt;/li&gt;
  1373. &lt;li&gt;FUSE block device exports. This allows &lt;i&gt;host&lt;/i&gt; systems to mount &lt;i&gt;guest block devices&lt;/i&gt; the way the guest operating systems see them. FUSE block devices can be created witht he new &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/QMP&quot;&gt;QEMU Machine Protocol&lt;/a&gt; (QMP) qemu-storage-daemon options &lt;code&gt;block-export-add&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;--export&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  1374. &lt;li&gt;QMP has three new features, &lt;code&gt;load-snapshot&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;save-snapshot&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;delete-snapshot&lt;/code&gt;, for managing &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/.qcow&quot; title=&quot;.qcow&quot;&gt;qcow2&lt;/a&gt; snapshots.&lt;/li&gt;
  1375. &lt;li&gt;Emulation of the Arm-v8.1M ARM architecture and Cortex-M55 processors, and several new ARM extensions including ARMv8.4-TTST, ARMv8.4-SEL2, FEAT_SSBS, ARMv8.5-MemTag and ARMv8.4-DIT.&lt;/li&gt;
  1376. &lt;li&gt;There's a long list of improvements to RISC-V emulation&lt;/li&gt;
  1377. &lt;li&gt;USB traffic can now be written to package capture filters like wireshark. A new &lt;code&gt;pcap=file&lt;/code&gt; option can be added to &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; USB devices enabled in QEMU.&lt;/li&gt;
  1378. &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Guest&lt;/i&gt; operating systems in QEMU can now take advantage of AMD SEV-ES (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) to encrypt the processor registers &lt;i&gt;in the guest system&lt;/i&gt; so the &lt;i&gt;host&lt;/i&gt; environment can't see what's going on inside a virtual machine unless the guest explicitly grants access to it.&lt;/li&gt;
  1379. &lt;li&gt;The Tiny Code Generator (TCG) for x86 emulation can now &lt;i&gt;emulate&lt;/i&gt; the Protection Keys Supervisor (PKS) for protecting access to privileged memory pages.&lt;/li&gt;
  1380. &lt;li&gt;Support for the Chinese Loongson-3 processors have been added to the MIPS architecture emulator.&lt;/li&gt;
  1381. &lt;li&gt;The Tiny Code Generator (TCG) now supports macOS host environments running the Apple M1 ARM chip.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
  1382. &lt;p&gt;The above list of new features in &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/QEMU&quot; title=&quot;QEMU&quot;&gt;QEMU&lt;/a&gt; 6.0 barely scratches the surface, the &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/6.0&quot;&gt;full QEMU 6.0 changelog&lt;/a&gt; is a &lt;i&gt;very long read&lt;/i&gt;.
  1383. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The QEMU &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.qemu.org/download/#linux&quot;&gt;download page for Linux&lt;/a&gt; does not list any &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/AppImage&quot; title=&quot;AppImage&quot;&gt;AppImage&lt;/a&gt;, Snap, .deb or .rpm packages or binaries of any kind, it simply lists instructions for installing it using the major Linux distributions repositories. All of them have some recently new QEMU version like 5.2, none have the latest 6.0 release. That leaves compiling from source as the only option if you really want QEMU 6.0 &lt;i&gt;now&lt;/i&gt;. The source is a 102 MiB tarball that extracts to 724 MiB. Building it is, in theory, as easy as &lt;code&gt;./configure &amp;amp;&amp;amp; make&lt;/code&gt;, but there are &lt;i&gt;a lot&lt;/i&gt; of optional dependencies to work out. You will likely need to install a number of development packages &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; a number of &lt;code&gt;./configure&lt;/code&gt; flags like &lt;code&gt;--enable-kvm&lt;/code&gt; (kind of important if you want to run x86-64 software on x86-64 without a huge performance penalty). You may be better off waiting until your distribution makes a QEMU 6.0 package unless you &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; want one of the new features &lt;i&gt;right now&lt;/i&gt;. The actual compile will only take about 15 minutes on a Ryzen 1600X with &lt;code&gt;-j 12&lt;/code&gt;, even thought the source tree is huge, so it is doable. Make sure to get all the dependencies in place and re-run &lt;code&gt;./configure&lt;/code&gt; so you don't end up with a crippled QEMU if you decide to go that route.
  1384. &lt;/p&gt;
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  1416. <pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2021 02:10:29 GMT</pubDate>
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  1421. <title>Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 Is Released With Speedy Trial Taproot Activation</title>
  1422. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/Bitcoin_Core_0.21.1_Is_Released_With_Speedy_Trial_Taproot_Activation</link>
  1423. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://linuxreviews.org/Bitcoin_Core_0.21.1_Is_Released_With_Speedy_Trial_Taproot_Activation</guid>
  1424. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Bitcoin Logo Png.png&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/6/6c/Bitcoin_Logo_Png.png/32px-Bitcoin_Logo_Png.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/6/6c/Bitcoin_Logo_Png.png/48px-Bitcoin_Logo_Png.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/6/6c/Bitcoin_Logo_Png.png/64px-Bitcoin_Logo_Png.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; The latest Bitcoin Core wallet for the Bitcoin network and BTC currency on it contains speedy trial activation code for a technology called Taproot that aims to make different kinds of Bitcoin transactions look mostly the same. Taproot requires a &quot;soft fork&quot; which will take place at block 709632 if enough Bitcoin miners adopt this or other versions signaling Taproot activation.
  1425. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:Yuri&quot; title=&quot;User:Yuri&quot;&gt;권유리 (Kwon Yu-ri)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#160;2021-05-03 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-05-03.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  1426. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/7/76/Bitcoin-core-wallet-git-2021-05-02.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Bitcoin-core-wallet-git-2021-05-02.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/7/76/Bitcoin-core-wallet-git-2021-05-02.jpg/900px-Bitcoin-core-wallet-git-2021-05-02.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;419&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/7/76/Bitcoin-core-wallet-git-2021-05-02.jpg/1350px-Bitcoin-core-wallet-git-2021-05-02.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/7/76/Bitcoin-core-wallet-git-2021-05-02.jpg/1800px-Bitcoin-core-wallet-git-2021-05-02.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Bitcoin Core wallet (git as of 2021-05-02) synchronizing with the Bitcoin network. Nevermind the minor graphical glitches due to the Qt interface seemingly hanging with redraws every 5 minutes, it's probably just the Qt interface being on the same thread as disk I/O or something like that.&lt;/i&gt;
  1427. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bitcoin Core is the de-facto Bitcoin reference implementation with roots going back to the original Bitcoin wallet by &quot;Satoshi Nakamoto&quot;. It is an ideal Bitcoin wallet for everyone who wants to wait two weeks for a digital currency wallet to sync so they can &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Digital_Currencies_Like_Bitcoin_And_Etherium_And_Tokens_Based_On_Them_Are_Practically_Useless_As_Of_March_2021&quot; title=&quot;Digital Currencies Like Bitcoin And Etherium And Tokens Based On Them Are Practically Useless As Of March 2021&quot;&gt;pay $25-60 in &quot;network fees&quot;&lt;/a&gt; to send digital BTC currency that will arrive after one to two hours, or 6 &quot;blocks&quot;.
  1428. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The big highlight in Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 is the &quot;Speedy Trial&quot; activation of a technology called Taproot that will lead to a &quot;soft fork&quot; of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Bitcoin&quot; title=&quot;Bitcoin&quot;&gt;Bitcoin&lt;/a&gt; network at block 709632 if a majority of the &quot;decentralized&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Bitcoin&quot; title=&quot;Bitcoin&quot;&gt;Bitcoin&lt;/a&gt; miners located in a single province in &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/China&quot; title=&quot;China&quot;&gt;China&lt;/a&gt; adopt the new version.
  1429. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Taproot is, without going into any technical details, a improvement that makes single-signature scripts, multisignature scripts, and complex scripted contracts on the Bitcoin network look like any other Bitcoin transaction on the blockchain. Complex Bitcoin transactions are currently standing out as a sore thumb, and they have even higher fees than the laughably high single-transaction fees. That's what Taproot will solve if the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Bitcoin&quot; title=&quot;Bitcoin&quot;&gt;Bitcoin&lt;/a&gt; miners, not the Bitcoin users, choose to adopt it. The &lt;i&gt;0.21.1 Release Notes&lt;/i&gt; as sent out on the &lt;i&gt;bitcoin-core-dev&lt;/i&gt; mailing list proudly state that:
  1430. &lt;/p&gt;
  1431. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  1432. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  1433. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;If activated, these improvements will allow users of single-signature scripts, multisignature scripts, and complex contracts to all use identical-appearing commitments that enhance their privacy and the fungibility of all bitcoins. Spenders will enjoy lower fees and the ability to resolve many multisig scripts and complex contracts with the same efficiency, low fees, and large anonymity set as single-sig users.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  1434. &lt;/p&gt;
  1435. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:right;border-top:1px dotted black;&quot;&gt;0.21.1 Release announcement on bitcoin-core-dev, May 2nd, 2021&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  1436. &lt;/div&gt;
  1437. &lt;p&gt;The &quot;low&quot; per-transaction fees the Bitcoin payment network has to offer are currently in the $25-60 range.
  1438. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/c/c9/Bitcoin-transaction-fees-january-may-2021.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Bitcoin-transaction-fees-january-may-2021.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/c/c9/Bitcoin-transaction-fees-january-may-2021.jpg/900px-Bitcoin-transaction-fees-january-may-2021.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;461&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/c/c9/Bitcoin-transaction-fees-january-may-2021.jpg/1350px-Bitcoin-transaction-fees-january-may-2021.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/c/c9/Bitcoin-transaction-fees-january-may-2021.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bitcoin and Ethereum transaction fees between January and May 2021. Source: &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionfees-btc-eth.html&quot;&gt;bitinfocharts.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  1439. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Taproot will not address the insanely high fees that make the Bitcoin payment network and the BTC currency on it practically useless for anything but million-dollar transactions, it will just make complex transactions as &quot;cheap&quot;, or expensive, as other transactions.
  1440. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can read more about the technical details about Taproot in the technical documents &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki&quot;&gt;BIP341 Taproot: SegWit version 1 spending rules&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0342.mediawiki&quot;&gt;BIP342 Validation of Taproot scripts&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0340.mediawiki&quot;&gt;BIP340 Schnorr signatures for secp256k1&lt;/a&gt; if you are particularly interested.
  1441. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 wallet, which is available for Linux, macOS 10.12+ and Windows 7 and newer, can be acquired from &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.21.1/&quot;&gt;bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.21.1/&lt;/a&gt;. It is currently &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; available on the GitHub &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases&quot;&gt;Bitcoin Core releases page&lt;/a&gt;. Perhaps they forgot to make it available there, or perhaps they sent the release-announcement out on the bitcoin-core-dev mailing list a bit earlier than they planned.
  1442. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The light-weight &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://electrum.org/&quot;&gt;Electrum Bitcoin Wallet&lt;/a&gt; is a much better choice for regular non-miner end users who want to send or receive BTC. Bitcoin transactions will cost a ridiculous amount regardless of what wallet you choose, but you won't have to leave a computer on, synchronizing with the Bitcoin network, for weeks before you can use the the more light-weight non-validating wallets like the Electrum wallet. The Bitcoin Core wallet is more suited towards specialized use-cases like running full Bitcoin nodes, mining operations and things like that.
  1443. &lt;/p&gt;
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  1479. <pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2021 23:42:11 GMT</pubDate>
  1480. <dc:creator></dc:creator>
  1482. </item>
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  1484. <title>Microsoft GitHub Tightens Rules On Security Research And Copyright Circumvention</title>
  1485. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/Microsoft_GitHub_Tightens_Rules_On_Security_Research_And_Copyright_Circumvention</link>
  1486. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://linuxreviews.org/Microsoft_GitHub_Tightens_Rules_On_Security_Research_And_Copyright_Circumvention</guid>
  1487. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Censorship.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/c/c5/Censorship.jpg/32px-Censorship.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/c/c5/Censorship.jpg/48px-Censorship.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/c/c5/Censorship.jpg/64px-Censorship.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; Microsoft GitHub has published a announcement of new rules around security research, proof of concept exploits, &quot;malware&quot;, &quot;harmful content&quot; and code that could be used to circumvent copyright restrictions. A wide range of general-purpose software could fall afoul of the updated censorship policy. The rules new rules will take effect on June 1st, 2021.
  1488. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:WaiLin&quot; title=&quot;User:WaiLin&quot;&gt;林慧 (Wai Lin)&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160;2021-05-01 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-05-01. &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  1489. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Censorship-wide.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/5c/Censorship-wide.jpg/800px-Censorship-wide.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;479&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/5c/Censorship-wide.jpg/1200px-Censorship-wide.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/5/5c/Censorship-wide.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Censorship. It's always a bad idea.&lt;/i&gt;
  1490. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Microsoft &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GitHub&quot; title=&quot;GitHub&quot;&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt; has published drafts for two new sets of rules that will affect all &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GitHub&quot; title=&quot;GitHub&quot;&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt; users come June 1st, 2021.
  1491. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One deals with DMCA complaints about software that could be used to circumvent &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Digital_Restrictions_Management&quot; title=&quot;Digital Restrictions Management&quot;&gt;Digital Restrictions Management&lt;/a&gt; measures that restrict fair use of works protected by copyright. The draft for the new DMCA enforcement policy, titled &quot;&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/github/site-policy/compare/dmca-updates&quot;&gt;DMCA policy updates #395&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, refers to &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap12.html&quot;&gt;US Copyright law section 1201&lt;/a&gt;. That law lays out how American &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Corporation&quot; title=&quot;Corporation&quot;&gt;corporations&lt;/a&gt; can unjustly restrict how American citizens can use copies of copyrighted works they bought and paid for. GitHub is a subsidiary of the American &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Microsoft&quot; title=&quot;Microsoft&quot;&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Corporation&quot; title=&quot;Corporation&quot;&gt;corporation&lt;/a&gt;, which is why GitHub is imposing this law on the entire world.
  1492. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/GitHub&quot; title=&quot;GitHub&quot;&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt; has been censoring a wide range of emulation tools and software for quite some time. The &quot;new&quot; DMCA will therefore not have any larger practical implications, it merely puts the existing unwritten policy in writing.
  1493. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The other new rule-set GitHub is about to impose will have some slightly more tangible effects. GitHub has published a &quot;draft&quot; with new rules around security research titled &quot;&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.com/github/site-policy/pull/397/files&quot;&gt;Exploits and malware policy updates #397&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. It comes as partly as a response to widespread criticism following Microsoft GitHub's removal of a exploit for the Microsoft Exchange server software. Critics pointed out that similar exploit code for &lt;i&gt;competing&lt;/i&gt; products had not been taken down in the past.
  1494. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The changes to the new upcoming &quot;Open Exploits and malware policy updates&quot; begin with a kind of sneaky change to &lt;i&gt;all &quot;Content Restrictions&quot;&lt;/i&gt; in their overall acceptable use policies:
  1495. &lt;/p&gt;
  1496. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  1497. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  1498. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;Under no circumstances will Users upload, post, host, execute, or transmit any Content &lt;b&gt;to any repositories&lt;/b&gt; that:&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  1499. &lt;/p&gt;
  1500. &lt;/div&gt;
  1501. &lt;/div&gt;
  1502. &lt;p&gt;is changed to
  1503. &lt;/p&gt;
  1504. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  1505. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  1506. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;Under no circumstances will Users upload, post, host, execute, or transmit any Content that:&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  1507. &lt;/p&gt;
  1508. &lt;/div&gt;
  1509. &lt;/div&gt;
  1510. &lt;p&gt;It makes sense to make &lt;i&gt;all the rules&lt;/i&gt; apply to &lt;i&gt;all of GitHub&lt;/i&gt; from GitHub's perspective. Why that &lt;i&gt;general policy chance&lt;/i&gt; is made as a &quot;Exploits and malware policy&quot; change is anyone's guess.
  1511. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The next policy change is specific to security-related code.
  1512. &lt;/p&gt;
  1513. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  1514. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  1515. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;Under no circumstances will Users upload, post, host, execute, or transmit any Content to any repositories that contains or installs malware or exploits that are in support of ongoing and active attacks that are causing harm&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  1516. &lt;/p&gt;
  1517. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:right;border-top:1px dotted black;&quot;&gt;GitHub Open Exploits and malware policy updates #397&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  1518. &lt;/div&gt;
  1519. &lt;p&gt;This is a interestingly worded rule because there is a whole lot of different code that could be used to &lt;i&gt;install&lt;/i&gt; other code from &lt;i&gt;outside of GitHub&lt;/i&gt;. Common and on their own perfectly innocent pieces of software like curl and wget would be in violation of this policy if they are deemed to be used to fetch exploit code as part of some ongoing attack. Hashcat, everything with a http client and variety of general software could fall afoul of this policy.  
  1520. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Active malware or exploits&quot; has also been updated with somewhat broad text clarifying that GitHub can not be used to &quot;in support&quot; of active attacks that &quot;cause harm&quot;.
  1521. &lt;/p&gt;
  1522. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  1523. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  1524. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;We do not allow anyone to use our platform in support of active attacks that cause harm, such as using GitHub as a means to deliver malicious executables, or as attack infrastructure, for example by organizing denial of service attacks or managing command and control servers.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  1525. &lt;/p&gt;
  1526. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:right;border-top:1px dotted black;&quot;&gt;GitHub Open Exploits and malware policy updates #397&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  1527. &lt;/div&gt;
  1528. &lt;p&gt;The Microsoft subsidiary is also adding a section where they acknowledge that some &quot;research into vulnerabilities, malware or exploits&quot; could educational value. Any such content must, when the new rules take effect:
  1529. &lt;/p&gt;
  1530. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  1531. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  1532. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;Clearly identify and describe any potentially harmful content in a disclaimer in the project’s README.md file.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  1533. &lt;/p&gt;
  1534. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:right;border-top:1px dotted black;&quot;&gt;GitHub Open Exploits and malware policy updates #397&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  1535. &lt;/div&gt;
  1536. &lt;p&gt;and
  1537. &lt;/p&gt;
  1538. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  1539. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  1540. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;Provide a designated security contact through a SECURITY.md file in the repository.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  1541. &lt;/p&gt;
  1542. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:right;border-top:1px dotted black;&quot;&gt;GitHub Open Exploits and malware policy updates #397&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  1543. &lt;/div&gt;
  1544. &lt;p&gt;Following those new rules will not be any guarantee against censorship of any vaguely security-related source code:
  1545. &lt;/p&gt;
  1546. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background: #f4f8ff;&quot;&gt;
  1547. &lt;div style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
  1548. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;GitHub may restrict content if we determine that it still poses a risk where we receive active abuse reports and maintainers are working toward resolution.&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 120%;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  1549. &lt;/p&gt;
  1550. &lt;/div&gt;
  1551. &lt;/div&gt;
  1552. &lt;p&gt;Microsoft GitHub has published a blog post titled &quot;&lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://github.blog/2021-04-29-call-for-feedback-policies-exploits-malware/&quot;&gt;A call for feedback on our policies around exploits and malware&lt;/a&gt;&quot; where it ask for &quot;feedback&quot; on their &lt;i&gt;policy updates&lt;/i&gt;. The new policy will take effect on June 1st.
  1553. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GitHub is just a very convenient web front end for the git version control system. There are several &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Free_software&quot; title=&quot;Free software&quot;&gt;free software&lt;/a&gt; web front ends you can download and install on your own server if you object to any of GitHub's new or existing terms, and that is the only meaningful form of &quot;feedback&quot; you can give them. GitHub is not merely proposing new rules in order to have a discussion, it is simply &lt;i&gt;announcing a new policy&lt;/i&gt; that will take effect as-is come June 1st, 2021.
  1554. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;---
  1555. The Russians are &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=55050&quot;&gt;concerned about this development&lt;/a&gt;.
  1556. &lt;/p&gt;
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  1591. <pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2021 06:26:03 GMT</pubDate>
  1592. <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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  1596. <title>GNU Nano 5.7 Is Released</title>
  1597. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/GNU_Nano_5.7_Is_Released</link>
  1598. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://linuxreviews.org/GNU_Nano_5.7_Is_Released</guid>
  1599. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Konsole.svg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/9/90/Konsole.svg/32px-Konsole.svg.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/9/90/Konsole.svg/48px-Konsole.svg.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/9/90/Konsole.svg/64px-Konsole.svg.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; The latest version of the GNU Nano text editor has more stable output when it is started with the &lt;code&gt;--constantshow&lt;/code&gt; option, the indicator (&lt;code&gt;-q&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;--indicator&lt;/code&gt;) now follows actual lines instead of virtual lines in softwrap mode, there's 10 bug-fixes and there is lots and lots of small tweaks implemented by GNU Nano maintainer Benno Schulenberg.
  1600. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:Yuri&quot; title=&quot;User:Yuri&quot;&gt;권유리 (Kwon Yu-ri)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#160;2021-04-30 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-04-30.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  1601. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/e/ed/GNU_Nano_5.7.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;GNU Nano 5.7.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/e/ed/GNU_Nano_5.7.jpg/900px-GNU_Nano_5.7.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;528&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/e/ed/GNU_Nano_5.7.jpg/1350px-GNU_Nano_5.7.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/e/ed/GNU_Nano_5.7.jpg/1800px-GNU_Nano_5.7.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;GNU Nano 5.7 launched with &lt;code&gt;--softwrap --constantshow --indicator&lt;/code&gt; editing &lt;code&gt;drivers/misc/pvpanic/pvpanic.c&lt;/code&gt; from the linux.git source code repository.&lt;/i&gt;
  1602. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GNU Nano is a perfectly good console text editor for anyone who doesn't like or want to use Vi or Emacs for some incomprehensible reason. The latest 5.7 release contains 63 commits by Benno Schulenberg, one by Mike Frysinger and one by Hussam al-Homsi that makes &lt;code&gt;#include &amp;lt;..&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; highlighting when editing C files more compliant.
  1603. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GNU Nano has a lot of capabilities that are not enabled if you just start it with &lt;code&gt;nano&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;nano file.txt&lt;/code&gt;. The &lt;code&gt;--constantshow&lt;/code&gt; option is one of them. It makes GNU Nano &lt;i&gt;constantly show&lt;/i&gt; what line you are on, how far into the file you are (in&amp;#160;%), what line you are on and what column you are on. This mode is now &quot;less jittery&quot; in GNU Nano 5.7.
  1604. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;indicator&quot; mode (&lt;code&gt;-q&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;--indicator&lt;/code&gt;), which adds a sidebar indicating where in a file you are on the right-hand side, now follows the actual lines instead of the visual lines in softwrap (&lt;code&gt;-S&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;--softwrap&lt;/code&gt; mode.
  1605. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ten bugs have been squashed since GNU Nano 5.6.1 was released was released on March 3rd. Two were memory leaks when undoing unindenting and pasting with syntax, one was a use-after-free for offscreen undos and two concerned mishandled Unicodes.
  1606. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's also a long list of code tweaks beneath the hood. Most were very small with descriptions like &quot;adjust two comments, and reshuffle two fragments&quot;, &quot;shorten a comment and trim an #ifdef&quot;, &quot;rename a variable, for contrast with another&quot; and &quot;simplify two fragments of code, eliding useless character copying&quot;. That doesn't mean they don't matter, they add up and they show that GNU Nano maintainer Benno Schulenberg put a lot of thought and effort into this release.
  1607. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The source code for GNU Nano 5.7 can be acquired from &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://nano-editor.org/dist/v5/&quot;&gt;nano-editor.org/dist/v5/&lt;/a&gt;. There is a handy cheat-sheet with keyboard shortcuts at &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://nano-editor.org/cheatsheet.html&quot;&gt;nano-editor.org/cheatsheet.html&lt;/a&gt; and a fine manual at &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://nano-editor.org/manual.html&quot;&gt;nano-editor.org/manual.html&lt;/a&gt;.
  1608. &lt;/p&gt;
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  1643. <pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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  1648. <title>Xfdashboard 0.9.3 Is Released</title>
  1649. <link>https://linuxreviews.org/Xfdashboard_0.9.3_Is_Released</link>
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  1651. <description>&lt;div class=&quot;mw-parser-output&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Xfce4-whiskermenu.svg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/39/Xfce4-whiskermenu.svg/32px-Xfce4-whiskermenu.svg.png&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/39/Xfce4-whiskermenu.svg/48px-Xfce4-whiskermenu.svg.png 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/3/39/Xfce4-whiskermenu.svg/64px-Xfce4-whiskermenu.svg.png 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; Xfdashboard is a nice optional application launcher and switcher for the Xfce desktop environment with a look and feel similar to the GNOME and macOS launchers. The latest release adds a new &quot;recently used&quot; search provider plugin, better window placement for the window overview and some code cleanups.
  1652. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/User:Yuri&quot; title=&quot;User:Yuri&quot;&gt;권유리 (Kwon Yu-ri)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#160;2021-04-30 -&amp;#160;last edited 2021-04-30.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Creative_Commons#Attribution_.28CC_BY.29&quot; title=&quot;Creative Commons&quot;&gt;&amp;#169; CC BY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;
  1653. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Xfdashboard_0.9.3_showing_a_search_for_%22term%22.&quot; title=&quot;Xfdashboard 0.9.3 showing a search for &amp;quot;term&amp;quot;.&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Xfdashboard-0.9.3.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/1/14/Xfdashboard-0.9.3.jpg/900px-Xfdashboard-0.9.3.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;513&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/1/14/Xfdashboard-0.9.3.jpg/1350px-Xfdashboard-0.9.3.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/1/14/Xfdashboard-0.9.3.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  1654. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Xfdashboard&quot; title=&quot;Xfdashboard&quot;&gt;Xfdashboard&lt;/a&gt; can be a very nice addition to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Xfce&quot; title=&quot;Xfce&quot;&gt;Xfce&lt;/a&gt; desktop environment if you want a nice application launcher/switcher similar to what GNOME and macOS has. The latest release has a new &quot;recently used&quot; search provider plugin that will show the recently used files matching what you type into the launcher in addition to applications matching your search. It is enabled by default if you start &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Xfdashboard&quot; title=&quot;Xfdashboard&quot;&gt;xfdashboard&lt;/a&gt; for the first time, but this it's &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; enabled if you upgrade from a previous version. You will, in that case, have to start &lt;code&gt;xfdashboard-settings&lt;/code&gt; and enable &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Plugins&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;▸ &lt;span class=&quot;menuitem&quot;&gt;Recently used search provider&lt;/span&gt;.
  1655. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/5/51/Xfdashboard-0.9.3-window-overview.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Xfdashboard-0.9.3-window-overview.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/51/Xfdashboard-0.9.3-window-overview.jpg/900px-Xfdashboard-0.9.3-window-overview.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;496&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/51/Xfdashboard-0.9.3-window-overview.jpg/1350px-Xfdashboard-0.9.3-window-overview.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/5/51/Xfdashboard-0.9.3-window-overview.jpg/1800px-Xfdashboard-0.9.3-window-overview.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Xfdashboard 0.9.3 showing some open windows.&lt;/i&gt;
  1656. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Xfdashboard developer Stephan Haller has also re-worked the way windows are placed since &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Xfdashboard_0.9.2_Is_Released&quot; title=&quot;Xfdashboard 0.9.2 Is Released&quot;&gt;Xfdashboard 0.9.2 was released late March&lt;/a&gt;. The release-notes note that there is &quot;Improved window placements in XfdashboardWindowsView by centering windows in last row in usused space&quot;. It's very hard to notice any difference between 0.9.3 and previous versions. There &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; a &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfdashboard/-/commit/87e01b4e03422ae900d82a335824baeb58f84424&quot;&gt;code commit&lt;/a&gt; titled &lt;i&gt;Better placement and layout of windows preview in windows view by spreading unused space among last rows and center filled columns at each of these rows&lt;/i&gt; so there is a difference, even if it may be a bit hard to notice if you use &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Xfdashboard&quot; title=&quot;Xfdashboard&quot;&gt;Xfdashboard&lt;/a&gt; regularly.
  1657. &lt;/p&gt;
  1658. &lt;table style=&quot;margin-top:1.4em;margin-bottom:1.4em;border:1px solid black;padding:1em; width: 100%;&quot;&gt;
  1659.  
  1660. &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style=&quot;vertical-align:top; color:black;&quot;&gt;
  1661. &lt;td width=&quot;70&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;floatleft&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Lovelyz Kei ProTip.jpg&quot; src=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/c/ca/Lovelyz_Kei_ProTip.jpg/160px-Lovelyz_Kei_ProTip.jpg&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;160&quot; height=&quot;102&quot; srcset=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/c/ca/Lovelyz_Kei_ProTip.jpg/240px-Lovelyz_Kei_ProTip.jpg 1.5x, https://linuxreviews.org/images/thumb/c/ca/Lovelyz_Kei_ProTip.jpg/320px-Lovelyz_Kei_ProTip.jpg 2x&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1662. &lt;/td&gt;
  1663. &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;TIP:&lt;/b&gt; Xfdashboard will take it's time before it appears if you simply assign a keyboard shortcut like &lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;Super&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;Spacebar&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;⇧ Shift&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd class=&quot;keyboard-key nowrap&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0.2em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1); background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;&quot;&gt;super&lt;/kbd&gt; to launch &lt;code&gt;xfdashboard&lt;/code&gt;. It has support for being daemonized with &lt;code&gt;-d&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;--daemonize&lt;/code&gt;. You can add &lt;code&gt;xfdashboard -d&lt;/code&gt; to your Xfce startup session if you want it to instantly appear when you ask for it with a keyboard shortcut or a panel icon.
  1664. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  1665. &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Xfdashboard&quot; title=&quot;Xfdashboard&quot;&gt;Xfdashboard&lt;/a&gt; 0.9.3 mentions that there is &quot;A huge amount of new API documentation&quot;. This may seem a bit puzzling since &lt;i&gt;there is no &lt;code&gt;doc/&lt;/code&gt; folder in the xfdashboard 0.9.3 release tarball&lt;/i&gt;. A close-up inspection of the git commit log reveals a commit titled &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfdashboard/-/commit/c9e8bbc9c63355b41bb4a35ebbd68204e22aa4bf&quot;&gt;Next step to complete API documentation&lt;/a&gt; where a lot of documentation is added within a large number of C source and header files. That is, apparently, where you should look for API documentation. There's also two new pages on the web titled &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://xfdashboard.froevel.de/theming-unstable.html&quot;&gt;Theming of xfdashboard&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://xfdashboard.froevel.de/settings-unstable.html&quot;&gt;Settings of xfdashboard&lt;/a&gt; for those who want to make themes for &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Xfdashboard&quot; title=&quot;Xfdashboard&quot;&gt;Xfdashboard&lt;/a&gt; or plugins.
  1666. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can acquire the source code for &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxreviews.org/Xfdashboard&quot; title=&quot;Xfdashboard&quot;&gt;Xfdashboard&lt;/a&gt; 0.9.3 from &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfdashboard/0.9/&quot;&gt;archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfdashboard/0.9/&lt;/a&gt;. The website for it is at &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfdashboard/start&quot;&gt;docs.xfce.org/apps/xfdashboard/start&lt;/a&gt;.
  1667. &lt;/p&gt;
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