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Bootlin's Snagboot Aims To Recover & Reflash Embedded Platforms

Phoronix - Tue, 05/23/2023 - 23:44
The embedded Linux experts at Bootlin have released Snagboot as a new open-source project aiming to make it easy to recover and re-flash embedded platforms...

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...

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