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GCC 11 Is On The Final Stage Of Development With 60+ High Priority Regressions

Phoronix - Mon, 01/18/2021 - 22:22
GCC 11 entered its final stage of development today as it works towards releasing around the end of Q1 / early Q2 if their past cadence holds up. Before GCC 11.1 can debut as the first stable version, there are some 60+ "P1" high priority regressions that need to be resolved or otherwise demoted to lesser priority regressions...

Linux Support Is Coming To Allow De-Authorizing Thunderbolt Devices

Phoronix - Mon, 01/18/2021 - 21:27
While in recent years there has been growing interest in enhancing Linux's Thunderbolt security with offering security levels and other functionality to authorize supported/known Thunderbolt devices, surprisingly it's taken until 2021 to see the ability for Linux's Thunderbolt software connection manage to handle de-authorizing devices...

Itanium IA-64 Was Busted In The Upstream, Default Linux Kernel Build The Past Month

Phoronix - Mon, 01/18/2021 - 20:38
While Intel formally discontinued the Itanium processors just under two years ago, the Linux software support for IA-64 continues. However, as a possible sign of the times, the Linux 5.11 kernel build for it has been broken the past month...

Set up a minimal server on a Raspberry Pi

opensource.com - Mon, 01/18/2021 - 16:02

Recently, the microSD (secure digital) card in my Raspberry Pi stopped working. It had been in constant use as a server for almost two years, and this provided a good opportunity to start fresh and correct a few problems. After its initial installation, it began experiencing disk problems and the official Raspberry Pi operating system (OS) received a significant update (and was renamed from Raspbian to Raspberry Pi OS). So I acquired a new microSD card and preceded to rebuild.


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