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What next-generation leaders expect: the choice to work openly

opensource.com - Tue, 06/29/2021 - 15:00

Earlier in this series on talent management, I argued that emerging, talented leaders need space to flow to those places in the organization where they add value based on their unique talents and intrinsic motivations. If the organization's management and senior management set the right examples, extend trust, and listen, they can greatly accelerate the organization's transformation to a more open culture.


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Clang Profile Guided Optimizations Support Sent In For Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Tue, 06/29/2021 - 12:00
Compiling the Linux kernel with LLVM's Clang code compiler continues to be more featureful with plumbing now being added to handle profile-guided optimizations (PGO) to help in achieving greater performance for optimizing kernel builds for targeted workloads...

Glibc 2.34 Adds "_Fork" Function Ahead Of Future POSIX Revision

Phoronix - Tue, 06/29/2021 - 06:55
The GNU C Library (Glibc) has landed its _Fork function implementation as an async-signal-safe fork replacement that is also expected to be made part of the next POSIX standards revision...

PipeWire 0.3.31 Released With Better JACK Support, More Crash Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 06/29/2021 - 06:21
PipeWire 0.3.31 is out today as the newest version of this audio and video streams server for the Linux desktop that is becoming a viable replacement to the likes of JACK and PulseAudio...

Google's Lyra v0.0.2 Speech Codec Gets Rid Of The Binary Blob

Phoronix - Tue, 06/29/2021 - 02:20
Earlier this year Google announced the Lyra voice codec that could work with AV1 video for video chats over 56kbps modems. Google is today shipping its newest Lyra version...

Intel To Disable TSX By Default On More CPUs With New Microcode

Phoronix - Tue, 06/29/2021 - 00:18
Intel is going to be disabling Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) by default for various Skylake through Coffee Lake processors with forthcoming microcode updates. Yes, this does mean performance implications for workloads benefiting from TSX. This change has seemingly not been talked about much at all publicly and I just happened to become aware of it when looking through new kernel patches...

GNU Linux-libre 5.13-gnu Released For The Latest Kernel Deblobbing

Phoronix - Mon, 06/28/2021 - 22:35
Following yesterday's release of the Linux 5.13 kernel, the GNU folks have released GNU Linux-libre 5.13-gnu as their downstream that strips out support for loading binary-only firmware/microcode, blocks the ability to load binary-only kernel modules, and other sanitization work in the name of software freedom...

Hantro VPU Driver With Linux 5.14 Adds G2 Decoder Support With HEVC

Phoronix - Mon, 06/28/2021 - 22:25
The Hantro media driver within the Linux kernel for supporting the Hantro IP-based VPU found in Rockchip and NXP i.MX8M SoCs is seeing improvements with the in-development Linux 5.14 kernel...

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