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AMD SFH Driver To Land With Linux 5.11 For Better Ryzen Laptop Handling In 2021

Phoronix - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 21:20
It was sadly too late for squeezing into the current Linux 5.10 merge window but it looks like for Linux 5.11 in early 2021 the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub "SFH" driver will make its long awaited debut...

Integer Scaling To Come With Linux 5.11 For Intel Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 20:54
Going back more than a year there have been Intel "i915" kernel graphics driver patches implementing integer mode scaling support while finally for Linux 5.11 in early 2021 the support will have landed...

LLVM Clang 12 Adds Support For Vectorization Using Glibc's Vector Math Library

Phoronix - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 18:49
Upstream LLVM/Clang now supports making use of the vector math library found within the GNU C Library...

Laptop Touchpad Improvements, New Joystick Driver For Linux 5.10

Phoronix - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 18:29
The Linux 5.10 merge window is closing this weekend but there still is new code landing for this last complete kernel series of 2020...

How to Configure Network Static IP Address on RHEL/CentOS 8/7

Tecmint - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 16:10

The scope of this tutorial is to explain how we can edit and make changes to Network Configurations on RHEL/CentOS 8/7 from the command line only, and, more specifically how we can set up

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Ubuntu 21.04 Installer Might Allow EXT4 Encryption Without LVM

Phoronix - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 15:23
Ubuntu for many years has allowed EXT4 file-system encryption when making use of LVM management but for Ubuntu 21.04 it's looking to offer the file-system encryption without having to go through LVM...

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