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Lenovo's Platform Profile Support For AMD Systems On Linux Has Been Busted

Phoronix - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 18:29
ACPI Platform Profile support on Linux has been useful for catering to balancing your power or performance preferences with modern laptops on Linux. It has worked well in general across various devices tested but it turns out to be a dud currently when it comes to AMD Ryzen powered Lenovo systems...

LLVM/Clang 14 Ends Feature Development With Better C++20 Support, Armv9 Added

Phoronix - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 18:08
LLVM release manager Tom Stellard has branched the LLVM 14.0 code and that of its sub-projects like Clang within the mono repository. As such, LLVM 14.0 feature development is now over with the main Git branch working towards what will become LLVM 15.0 later this calendar year...

FSF-Tailored Trisquel 10.0 Released - Adds 32-bit Arm, Defaults To GNU Linux-Libre 5.4

Phoronix - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 17:33
Trisquel 10.0 was released on Tuesday as the latest major release of this operating system that is one of the few GNU/Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. While it has the blessing of the FSF, it's a bit behind on the software feature front...

How open source supports businesses' impact on climate change

opensource.com - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 16:00

In the coming decade, climate changes will compel the creation of new ecological norms and rules for our economy. The financial industry will be at the center of this transition, determining which companies and technologies are granted the resources they need to spearhead this evolution.


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How radical transparency is transforming open source healthcare software

opensource.com - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 16:00

At Tidepool, where I work as a Community and Clinic Success Manager, the company's mission is to make diabetes software more accessible, meaningful, and actionable. Operating in the open is how we achieve that. Tidepool's diabetes management software is an open source platform free for both clinicians and people impacted by diabetes. And, because the company is a nonprofit, it also operates according to the transparency rules that govern 501(c)(3) organizations.


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The State of Customer Experience at Red Hat: Technical support and subscription management enhancements

Red Hat News - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 13:00

We made enhancements to several Red Hat products and product documentation based on customer feedback in the past year. In this post, let's take a look at some of the improvements we made to the areas of support delivery and subscription management:

Red Hat EMEA Digital Leaders Awards 2021: And the regional winners are...

Red Hat News - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 13:00

In our previous post we shared the names of the winners of Red Hat EMEA Digital Leaders Awards across three categories: Open Transformation, Cloud Native, and Hybrid Cloud.

Wayland's Weston 10.0 Compositor Released With DMA-BUF Feedback, Libseat Support

Phoronix - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 07:25
Weston 10.0 has been released as the newest feature update to Wayland's reference compositor that often works as a proving grounds and compositor showcasing shiny new features for Wayland...

Google Chrome 98 Released With COLRv1 For Smaller Emoji Files

Phoronix - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 05:00
Chrome 98 is available today as Google's second web browser update of the new year. The Chrome 98 changes are mostly on the developer-side but with some user-impacting differences...

Linux 5.16.5 Released To Fix Up Btrfs' Botched Up Defragging

Phoronix - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 02:57
Linux 5.16.5 is out today and making it a notable point release is it fixed up the rather botched state of the Btrfs file-system code for the v5.16 kernel...

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