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GRUB 2.06 Should Be Released This Year, Cooperation Increasing With Distro Vendors

Phoronix - Thu, 02/11/2021 - 00:35
While GRUB 2.06 was aiming for release in 2020, having to deal with the BootHole security issue among other challenges last year ended up delaying that release. Fortunately, it looks like this long awaited GRUB feature update should be out this year and there has been increased cooperation between upstream GRUB developers and distribution vendors...

Intel's Project ACRN To Upstream More Code With Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Wed, 02/10/2021 - 21:43
Announced nearly three years ago by Intel was the ACRN reference hypervisor framework intended for IoT/embedded use-cases with real-time capabilities and safety-critical computing. More of the kernel bits to this "Big Little Hypervisor for IoT Development" are set to see mainline with the imminent Linux 5.12 kernel cycle...

Developers Continue New Push With LibreOffice In The Web Browser Via WebAssembly

Phoronix - Wed, 02/10/2021 - 20:31
While there has been LibreOffice Online as a collaborative, web-based version of LibreOffice making use of the HTML5 Canvas for its UI, there hasn't been much activity there recently outside of the Collabora Online commercial variant. But developers are working on a current port of LibreOffice to the web browser using WebAssembly...

Lenovo IdeaPad Improvements En Route To Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Wed, 02/10/2021 - 19:15
In addition to Linux 5.12 positioned to see Lenovo laptop "platform profile" support for controlling the power/thermal behavior of their newer ThinkPad and IdeaPad laptops, this next kernel version also has other improvements on the IdeaPad front...

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