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QEMU 2.12 in Release Candidate

GTK2 support is now deprecated.

travisdh1

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

QEMU 2.12 in Release Candidate

GTK2 support is now deprecated.

"QEMU 2.12 is also working on allowing host NVMe controllers to be directly driven via QEMU with VFIO."

Mmm, who wants faster IO?

scottalanmiller

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Python 3.7 now available on Fedora.

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Ars Technica review: $99 Amazfit Smart Watch very impressive.

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Java 10 is out with general availability today. Comes with experimental JIT compiler.

black3dynamite

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/gnome-shell-has-a-memory-leak-and-it-might-not-be-fixed-for-ubuntu-18-04-lts

scottalanmiller

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/gnome-shell-has-a-memory-leak-and-it-might-not-be-fixed-for-ubuntu-18-04-lts

That's the great thing about Long Term Support release, they often mean "long term bug retention."

PenguinWrangler

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/child-abuse-imagery-bitcoin-blockchain-illegal-content

So if you are found with part of the blockchain on your computer that has that imagery then you are breaking the law. If you were mining it they could say you were participating in transmission of illegal content.

black3dynamite

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/gnome-shell-has-a-memory-leak-and-it-might-not-be-fixed-for-ubuntu-18-04-lts

That's the great thing about Long Term Support release, they often mean "long term bug retention."

How is it canonical is willing to keep firefox up to date on LTS release but nothing else? Especially bugs like memory leak?

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Check out Nvidia's new GPP: GeForce Partnership Program.

Kelly

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Java 10 is out with general availability today. Comes with experimental JIT compiler.

I read that as judgmental compiler. My headline is much better...

NerdyDad

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Java 10 is out with general availability today. Comes with experimental JIT compiler.

I read that as judgmental compiler. My headline is much better...

"Hmmm...your code is not looking so good."

Kelly

@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Java 10 is out with general availability today. Comes with experimental JIT compiler.

I read that as judgmental compiler. My headline is much better...

"Hmmm...your code is not looking so good."