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XSAVES Supervisor States For Linux 5.8 To Support Future Intel CPU Features

Phoronix - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 19:05
Queued up this weekend as part of the x86/fpu changes slated for the upcoming Linux 5.8 cycle is low-level functionality necessary for supporting other current and future Intel CPU features...

GCC 11 Picks Up A New Option For Large Source Files

Phoronix - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 18:40
When seeing GCC 11 in its early development state pick up a new -flarge-source-files option I was curious what that was all about......

3 Ways to Create Bootable Ubuntu USB Startup Disk

Tecmint - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 18:33
Creating a bootable USB drive is one of the most preferred ways of testing and installing a Linux operating system on a PC. This is so because most modern PCs don’t come with a...

8 CI/CD best practices to set you up for success

opensource.com - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 15:02

Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) are usually associated with DevOps, DevSecOps, artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps), GitOps, and more. It's not enough to just say you're doing CI and CD; there are certain best practices that, if used well and consistently, will make your CI/CD pipelines more successful.


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Stepping WebAssembly up a notch with security

opensource.com - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 15:01

WebAssembly (also known as Wasm) is taking the world by storm. It started off as technology for browsers, "doing JavaScript right," but has developed into so much more than that. It provides a platform-independent runtime with binaries that can be compiled from many different languages and run (without any further changes or recompilation) on any platform with runtime support.


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8 must-have WordPress plugins for virtual classrooms

opensource.com - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 15:00

Once you have WordPress installed, you may be eager to see how you can use it in your school or classroom. As more schools switch to online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic, WordPress is a go-to content management system.


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Linux 5.7-rc6 Released - Torvalds Is Not Entirely Happy Over Its Size

Phoronix - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 08:46
While the past few weeks have seen relatively smaller than usual weekly release candidates, Linux 5.7-rc6 is out this evening and it's bigger than normal...

Enlightenment 0.24 Released

Phoronix - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 05:54
Carsten Haitzler has released Enlightenment 0.24 as the latest significant update to this X11 window manager and Wayland compositor...

Rav1e Sees New Pre-Release With More Speed-Ups, Monochrome Support

Phoronix - Sun, 05/17/2020 - 22:48
Since the release of Rav1e v0.3.1 back in February the "weekly pre-releases" dropped off until this week with there finally being a new tagged milestone...

X-Plane's Vulkan Renderer Maturing, More Performance Optimizations Still Coming

Phoronix - Sun, 05/17/2020 - 20:39
The folks at Laminar Research published a new blog post this week detailing their latest development work on their Vulkan (and Apple Metal) renderers for the realistic X-Plane flight simulator...

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