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Top 10 Red Hat blogs from 2020

Red Hat News - Mon, 12/28/2020 - 13:00

Just like that, 2021 is closing in on us. Too soon? Not soon enough? We’ll let you decide. 

What a year we’ve had at Red Hat. Since we published Red Hat president and CEO Paul Cormier's message on how Red Hat is here to help, we pivoted in many ways throughout 2020 to best meet our customers' evolving needs, and we used our digital channels—like this blog—to share the latest updates with you. 

Linux 5.11-rc1 Released - Many New Features While Dominated By AMD Header Additions

Phoronix - Mon, 12/28/2020 - 08:40
Linus Torvalds as expected released Linux 5.11-rc1 this evening, which marks the end of the two week merge window that went through Christmas...

Linux 5.11 Is Heavy On New Features, Improvements For 2021

Phoronix - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 23:49
The Linux 5.11 merge window has been open the past two weeks following the debut of Linux 5.10 but is set to close today. A lot of new features and exciting improvements were merged for Linux 5.11 although it is somewhat of a bumpy ride at the moment but should be buttoned up and ready for its stable release come February.

Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler 2020-12 Released

Phoronix - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 22:13
Intel's open-source oneAPI Data Parallel C++ compiler saw a Christmas Day update with the 2020-12 monthly update...

Linux 5.11 Sees Quick Fix For A Context Switching Performance Regression

Phoronix - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 20:35
Linux 5.11-rc1 is due for release later today and at least one regression has seen a quick resolution...

Linux Developers Ponder Decade-Old Decision To Disable PCI Runtime Power Management By Default

Phoronix - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 16:28
Back in 2010 was a change to disable run-time power management of PCI devices by default and leaving it up to user-space to in turn override it if desired. Now as we gear up for 2021, some upstream kernel developers are wondering about that original decision and possibly changing the default behavior to yield better out-of-the-box power savings with modern systems...

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