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Coreboot Starts Seeing Bits For AMD Barcelo

Phoronix - Sun, 07/18/2021 - 18:08
Early work is underway on Coreboot for AMD's Barcelo as the successor to Lucienne...

Linux 5.15 To Bring More Scalable + Reliable Open vSwitch

Phoronix - Sun, 07/18/2021 - 17:45
Linux 5.15 later this year will bring improvements to the kernel side of Open vSwitch, the open-source virtual multi-layer switch implementation that is commonly used in large virtualized environments...

17 open source technologists share their work-from-home uniforms

opensource.com - Sun, 07/18/2021 - 15:00

As the world turns and some folks begin returning to the office, I feel it's a good time to ask our community of open source techies: What's your work-from-home (WFH) uniform?

Do you dress like you would if you were going into the office? Or are you more comfortable in workout clothes or even your PJs? Do you have a template you stick to most days?


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Debian 11.0 "Bullseye" Is Very Close To Release - Now Under A Full Freeze

Phoronix - Sun, 07/18/2021 - 04:34
Following the soft freeze and hard freeze, Debian 11 "Bullseye" is now under a full freeze ahead of its official Debian 11 stable release...

Hashcat 6.2.3 Introduces AMD HIP Backend

Phoronix - Sun, 07/18/2021 - 02:00
Released on Friday was a new version of the Hashcat open-source password recovery tool that now adds an AMD HIP back-end...

Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS vs. Pop!_OS 21.04 Performance Benchmarks

Phoronix - Sun, 07/18/2021 - 01:00
With the recent release of System76's Pop!_OS 21.04 if you are thinking about upgrading to this release from Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS or choosing between the two, here are some benchmarks from the AMD Ryzen Threadripper powered System76 Thelio Major.

Linus Torvalds Calls On Paragon To Send In The New NTFS Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 07/18/2021 - 00:06
One year ago was the surprise of Paragon Software wanting to mainline their NTFS Linux kernel driver. The Paragon "NTFS3" kernel driver provides much better read/write support for Microsoft's NTFS file-system than what is available with other kernel or FUSE options for this file-system support on Linux. It looks like this driver might finally be mainlined soon...

AMD Pushes Improvements To Help Debug S0ix Power States On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 07/17/2021 - 19:13
AMD's PMC Linux driver with Linux 5.15 is expected to offer more debugging information for diagnosing S0ix power states behavior to analyze if an AMD SoC is hitting or not the desired low-power states...

KDE's KWin Reworks Its DRM Code, Many Other Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 07/17/2021 - 18:03
In between celebrating the fact that Valve's newly announced Steam Deck runs KDE Plasma when exiting the Steam confines, KDE developers had a very busy week with a number of different improvements to their open-source desktop...

How to avoid waste when writing code

opensource.com - Sat, 07/17/2021 - 15:00

The long road toward quality is filled with diversions, false starts, and detours. The enemy of quality is waste, because waste is never desirable. No one pays anyone to deliver waste. We sometimes tolerate waste as part of the process of making something useful and desirable, but the more we can reduce waste while making something, the better.

In software engineering, waste can be expressed in a few ways:


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