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Intel Contributes New "KCPUID" Utility For Linux To Reliably Report CPU Features

Phoronix - Tue, 03/09/2021 - 13:00
Intel engineers have been working on a tool called kcpuid for showing the raw CPU features/capabilities of a processor under Linux. This utility will be part of the kernel source tree and is queued up now in tip's x86/misc branch, thereby making it material for Linux 5.13 barring any issues coming up...

LLVM Clang Mainlines Support For The Motorola 68000 Series (m68k)

Phoronix - Tue, 03/09/2021 - 05:55
If it wasn't odd enough during these pandemic times seeing Nintendo 64 support upstreamed into the Linux 5.12 kernel a few weeks back, the latest vintage hardware seeing open-source support still going on is the Motorola 68000 series 32-bit processors. LLVM/Clang today merged the "m68k" target for these three decade old processors...

Intel Already Started Working On Linux Driver Code For Lunar Lake

Phoronix - Tue, 03/09/2021 - 03:36
While Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake desktop processors are launching this month, Intel's open-source Linux driver developers known for their punctual support are already preparing early code around their 14th Gen "Lunar Lake" platform...

GNOME 40 Mutter Lands Wayland Presentation-Time Support

Phoronix - Tue, 03/09/2021 - 00:11
The patch series implementing support for Wayland's Presentation-Time protocol within the Mutter compositor has been merged ahead of this month's GNOME 40 release...

AMD Has A Very Exciting Announcement Next Week

Phoronix - Mon, 03/08/2021 - 22:02
AMD has announced that next week on 15 March they will be hosting a digital launch event for the EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors...

Canonical Talks Up Why Ubuntu Is A Great Replacement To CentOS

Phoronix - Mon, 03/08/2021 - 21:09
Following the surprise announcement last year that CentOS 8 will be EOL'ed at the end of 2021 to focus instead on CentOS Stream and all the uncertainty that brought with Red Hat now being owned by IBM, new distributions like Rocky Linux were conceived while existing Linux distributions have been looking to capitalize on that move. Oracle Linux has been advertising how it's a great RHEL downstream while Canonical is now promoting how Ubuntu is a great replacement to CentOS...

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