Monero (XMR) will be once more changing its PoW algorithm for mining in an effort to attract regular miners CPU/GPU miners and drive away FPGA/ASIC miners. Testing on the private RandomX testnet has concluded successfully and RandomX PoW mining will move to public testing on the XMR official testnet. This Proof of Work will introduce significant changes with respect to[…]
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Fedora 31 has just rolled out
Many under the armor improvements and a lot of changes, new features, and new graphical experiences: here we are, the new Fedora 31 release. Obviously, the big GUI step forward for Fedora Workstation is the latest GNOME 3.34 update, which brings some visual changes, different functions, and real performance improvements. Fedora 31 also drops the 32-bit support, so now you[…]
Read moreAMD-nix desktop and wallpaper
As readers of this site/blog know well, I am passionate about everything related to the customization of operating systems and, in particular, of desktop and Linux environments. So as a great user of the related groups on Reddit, r/unixporn on all, sometimes, I also enjoy posting some shots of my experiments. The latest is AMD-nix on r/desktops, in clear response[…]
Read morePatent trolls should never target free software. GNOME fights
GNOME, the foundation behind one of our favorite DE, was hit by a patent troll. Rothschild Patent Imaging, LLC offered to settle for the dispute about developing the Shotwell image management application. It’s the first time a free software project has been targeted in this way, perhaps it won’t be the last. We want to send a message to all[…]
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