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NetBSD Is Making Progress On Benchmarking For Performance/Regression Testing

Phoronix - Sun, 07/26/2020 - 15:00
One of many interesting Google Summer of Code 2020 projects is working on automated benchmarking for NetBSD in order to allow for performance/regression testing of this BSD operating system known for its portability across CPU architectures...

Globalization: A history of openness

opensource.com - Sun, 07/26/2020 - 15:00

In my career conducting international business, I traveled to more than 80 countries worldwide. I was always struck by how strongly regions of the world are connected, and I began studying the forces of globalization as a result.


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Zstd-Compressed Linux Kernel Images Look Very Close To Mainline With Great Results

Phoronix - Sun, 07/26/2020 - 12:00
The work on Zstd'ing the Linux kernel for using this Facebook-developed Zstandard compression algorithm to in turn speed up decompression times when booting Linux kernel images might be mainlined as soon as Linux 5.9...

GNOME-Usage Program Still Striving To Report Per-Program Power Analytics

Phoronix - Sun, 07/26/2020 - 05:07
Started back in 2018 during the Google Summer of Code was work for reporting system power information within the GNOME-Usage utility. While some user-interface elements were fleshed out and other engineering completed, the code isn't yet merged or ready for users as the approach for accomplishing the per-program power reporting is still being devised...

Intel "Input Output Manager" Linux Driver Coming For Tiger Lake

Phoronix - Sat, 07/25/2020 - 21:47
While Intel's open-source engineers have been working on Tiger Lake enablement for Linux going back roughly a year with many kernel patches spanning the different areas over numerous kernel releases, which aligns with Intel's ongoing cadence of ensuring good Linux hardware support at launch even for consumer hardware, there have been a few stragglers in the Linux bring-up for Tiger Lake...

Following Many Patches, Linux 5.9 Finally Switching To HTTPS Links En Masse

Phoronix - Sat, 07/25/2020 - 21:25
On the mailing lists and browsing various Git "-next" repositories it's felt like "damn, there are a lot of patches about replacing HTTP links with HTTPS all of a sudden" inside the kernel sources and documentation. Indeed, for Linux 5.9 where applicable HTTP links are being replaced for HTTPS...

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