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AMD Launches Ryzen 7020 C-Series - Continues Pushing Zen 2 For Chromebooks

Phoronix - Tue, 05/23/2023 - 21:30
AMD today announced the Ryzen 7020 C-series processors. These processors are interesting for at least having integrated RDNA2 graphics but are based on the aging Zen 2 architecture...

Fedora Onyx To Become An Official Fedora Linux Immutable Variant

Phoronix - Tue, 05/23/2023 - 20:40
There's been a proposal for Fedora Linux to become a new Fedora immutable variant and now it's been approved by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) to happen for the Fedora 39 cycle...

Fedora Developers Discuss An Idea For Using U-Boot On x86 BIOS Systems

Phoronix - Tue, 05/23/2023 - 20:30
Last year Fedora and Red Hat developers began discussing the idea of dropping legacy BIOS support and to then only focus on UEFI platforms. There was a plan to deprecate BIOS support in Fedora 37 but ultimately it didn't go through due to some cloud providers still booting VMs in BIOS mode and some systems having broken UEFI implementations. An idea has now been raised over the possibility of using U-Boot on x86 BIOS systems to provide a UEFI-like experience from the Fedora perspective...

KDE Neon Unstable Now Building With Qt 6 Frameworks/Plasma

Phoronix - Tue, 05/23/2023 - 18:38
For those feeling adventurous and wanting to see how things are coming along for KDE Plasma 6.0 and KDE Frameworks Qt 6 porting, the KDE Neon Linux distribution with its "unstable" edition has begun building against the Qt6 components...

Linux 6.4 Lands Intel Alder Lake / Raptor Lake Workaround For INVLPG/PCID Bug

Phoronix - Tue, 05/23/2023 - 18:31
The bug I wrote about this weekend where Intel is now disabling PCID for Alder Lake and Raptor Lake under Linux until updated CPU microcode is issued for addressing an issue with the INVLPG instruction when Process Context Identifiers are enabled, has now been merged to Linux 6.4...

GNU Binutils Prepares For Intel FRED/LKGS

Phoronix - Tue, 05/23/2023 - 17:43
The GNU Assembler "Gas" as part of the GNU Binutils collection has landed support for Intel FRED and LKGS instructions...

Linux: Difference Between /dev/tty, /dev/tty0, and /dev/console

Tecmint - Tue, 05/23/2023 - 13:29
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Linux / UNIX supports device files that are stored in the /dev directory. These aren’t actual files, rather, they are special files or character

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