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Dell Getting Linux Power Management Optimized For Their Latest Systems + Upcoming Tiger Lake Desktop

Phoronix - Sun, 12/06/2020 - 21:09
Dell's Linux engineers continue working on improving the Linux kernel's handling around S0ix ACPI sub-states for greater energy savings...

Better Support For Microsoft Surface Laptops On Linux Is Coming With "SAM"

Phoronix - Sun, 12/06/2020 - 19:20
Better support for Microsoft Surface laptops on Linux is slowly coming to the mainline kernel...

Linux Appears Close To Supporting LiFi Light-Based Networking With pureLiFi

Phoronix - Sun, 12/06/2020 - 16:38
PureLiFi, one of the leaders when it comes to Li-Fi for high-speed, light-based wireless technology, has been spending the past few months bringing up their open-source Linux driver to the mainline kernel for their devices...

Openness is the key to innovation, history shows

opensource.com - Sun, 12/06/2020 - 16:00

In the first part of this article series—an extended review of the book How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley—I examined Ridley's characterization of innovation: it's gradual, incremental, and collective, and involves extensive collaboration between parties.


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Experience the useful features of the Xedit text editor

opensource.com - Sun, 12/06/2020 - 16:00

The X11 graphic server, distributed by X.org, has a few token applications that show how to program with its provided tools. These range from the TWM desktop to the silly but hypnotic Xeyes. It also includes a text editor called Xedit, a seemingly simple application with enough hidden features to make it a serious editor.


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Intel's Habana Labs AI Driver With Linux 5.11 Begins Prepping For Future ASICs

Phoronix - Sun, 12/06/2020 - 13:00
Well before Intel bought out AI startup Habana Labs this company with their compelling AI training and inference accelerators has been maintaining an open-source kernel driver in the Linux kernel. That has fortunately continued under Intel's ownership to no surprise and coming up with the Linux 5.11 cycle are more improvements to this accelerator driver for both the Gaudi AI Training and Goya AI Inference products...

ZaReason Linux PC Vendor Closes After More Than A Decade Of Selling Linux Hardware

Phoronix - Sun, 12/06/2020 - 05:48
After a long run and being one of the early boutique Linux PC vendors, California-based laptop/desktop/server vendor ZaReason is the latest casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic...

Debian 10.7 Released With Numerous Security Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 12/06/2020 - 02:48
Debian 11 is starting its release dance next month with the initial transition and essentials freeze while the actual stable release should make it out later in the year. For now Debian 10 remains the current stable series and this weekend marks the debut of Debian GNU/Linux 10.7...

Auxiliary Bus Support Coming To Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Sun, 12/06/2020 - 02:05
Coming to the Linux 5.11 is the Auxiliary Bus infrastructure that allows creating an auxiliary device and binding an an auxiliary driver to it. This is for a new core driver feature around increasingly complex devices that rely upon several drivers for support/operation...

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