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Many Intel/AMD x86 Changes Kick Off Linux 5.10 Development From Zen 3 To SERIALIZE

Phoronix - Mon, 10/12/2020 - 19:11
On this first official day of breaking open Linux 5.10 for development with its merge window, quite a number of noteworthy Intel and AMD x86 processor changes have already been sent in for landing...

GNU Linux-libre 5.9-gnu Released After The Usual Deblobbing

Phoronix - Mon, 10/12/2020 - 18:45
Within hours of Linus Torvalds releasing the Linux 5.9 kernel, the GNU folks maintaining the GNU Linux-libre downstream released their version of the kernel that prevents the loading of binary-only modules as well as the loading of binary-only firmware/microcode blobs...

LLVM 11.0 Finally Available With Flang Fortran Compiler, Continued C++20 Work

Phoronix - Mon, 10/12/2020 - 18:27
After being one and a half months late, LLVM 11.0 is now tagged and ready to ship...

Build a Kubernetes Minecraft server with Ansible's Helm modules

opensource.com - Mon, 10/12/2020 - 15:02

One of the best outcomes of Ansible's move towards content collections is it spreads the thousands of modules in Ansible's "core" repository into many more independent repositories. This means movement on issues and modules that had long been delayed (often due to the sheer volume of issues and pull requests in the repo) can progress more rapidly.


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Create an Ansible module for integrating your Google Calendar

opensource.com - Mon, 10/12/2020 - 15:01

In a previous article, I explored how Ansible can integrate with Google Calendar for change management, but I didn't get into the details of the Ansible module that was built for this purpose. In this article, I will cover the nuts and bolts of it.


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My top 7 keywords in Rust

opensource.com - Mon, 10/12/2020 - 15:00

I've been using Rust for a few months now, writing rather more of it than I expected—though quite a lot of that has been thrown away as I've learned, improved what I'm writing, and taken some more complex tasks beyond what I originally intended.


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Linux 5.9 Released With Initial AMD RDNA 2 GPU Enablement, Other New Hardware Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/12/2020 - 05:37
Linus Torvalds has just released Linux 5.9 as stable...

The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 10/12/2020 - 03:05
Given the impending release of Linux 5.9, I was having some fun with cloc today looking at the current lines of code count for this near-final Linux 5.9 kernel state...

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