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oneAPI Level Zero 1.2.3 Released For Intel's Low-Level Interface

Phoronix - Sat, 03/06/2021 - 23:21
Released this week was Intel's open-source oneAPI Level Zero v1.2.3 for the headers and loader based on their public oneAPI Level Zero specification...

LABWC Is The Newest Stacking Wayland Compositor

Phoronix - Sat, 03/06/2021 - 21:00
The LABWC Wayland compositor advertises itself as an Openbox alternative and just saw its inaugural release...

Linux Developers Continue Discussing "SLS" Mitigation For The Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 03/06/2021 - 19:25
Disclosed by Arm last summer was the Straight Line Speculation (SLS) vulnerability and they were quick to introduce new safeguards against SLS in the GCC and LLVM compilers. The compiler-based mitigations to straight-line speculation involves adding speculation barrier sequences around the vulnerable instructions to prevent speculatively executing instructions around changes in control flow. While compiler developers were quick to add the options, so far the Linux kernel developers are in disagreement still over its importance and the proposed patches that would flip on this option when compiling the ARM Linux kernel...

Exiv2 Looks To Team Up With The KDE Project

Phoronix - Sat, 03/06/2021 - 16:30
Exiv2, the widely-used C++ metadata library / tools for dealing with image metadata via EXIF / IPTC / XMP standards and ICC profiles is looking to join the KDE project...

Manage containers on Raspberry Pi with this open source tool

opensource.com - Sat, 03/06/2021 - 16:00

Containers became widely popular because of Docker on Linux, but there are much earlier implementations, including the jail system on FreeBSD. A container is called a "jail" in FreeBSD terminology. The jail system was first released in FreeBSD 4.0 way back in 2000, and it has continuously improved since. While 20 years ago it was used mostly on large servers, now you can run it on your Raspberry Pi.


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Daffodil Promoted To Being An Apache Top-Level Project

Phoronix - Sat, 03/06/2021 - 13:09
Following the recent promotions of DataSketches and ECharts, the Apache Software Foundation has promoted Daffodil as their newest top-level project. Apache Daffodil is an open-source universal interchange implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL)...

Daffodil Promoted To Being An Apache Top-Level Project

Phoronix - Sat, 03/06/2021 - 13:09
Following the recent promotions of DataSketches and ECharts, the Apache Software Foundation has promoted Daffodil as their newest top-level project. Apache Daffodil is an open-source universal interchange implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL)...

Linux 5.12-rc2 Released Early - A Rare Friday Kernel Due To That Nasty Corruption Issue

Phoronix - Sat, 03/06/2021 - 10:15
While Linus Torvalds long has released his new kernel releases -- both release candidates and the inaugural stable releases -- every Sunday, there are the occasional exceptions like this week with Linux 5.12-rc2 being issued on Friday night. The Linux 5.12-rc2 release has come early due to that nasty file-system corruption issue stemming from botched swapfile handling...

Linux 5.12-rc2 Released Early - A Rare Friday Kernel Due To That Nasty Corruption Issue

Phoronix - Sat, 03/06/2021 - 10:15
While Linus Torvalds long has released his new kernel releases -- both release candidates and the inaugural stable releases -- every Sunday, there are the occasional exceptions like this week with Linux 5.12-rc2 being issued on Friday night. The Linux 5.12-rc2 release has come early due to that nasty file-system corruption issue stemming from botched swapfile handling...

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