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LLVM Clang 12 Merges Support For x86_64 Microarchitecture Levels

Phoronix - Thu, 10/22/2020 - 21:02
In an effort to better cater towards newer and common x86_64 instruction set extensions, open-source toolchain developers are moving ahead with the work on x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels for being able to target a handful of different "levels" beyond the base x86_64 instruction set...

NFS Client With Linux 5.10 Adds "READ_PLUS" For Faster Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 10/22/2020 - 18:44
The NFS client code with Linux 5.10 has another performance optimization...

How to Install Shutter Screenshot Tool in Ubuntu 20.04

Tecmint - Thu, 10/22/2020 - 18:11

Shutter is a free and open-source, feature-rich screenshot tool for Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu. It is available for all major GNU/Linux distributions and can be installed using the default package manager.

The post How to Install Shutter Screenshot Tool in Ubuntu 20.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transition To Git Continues

Phoronix - Thu, 10/22/2020 - 16:00
The FreeBSD project has published their Q3-2020 report on the state of this leading BSD operating system...

How to influence people to join open source

opensource.com - Thu, 10/22/2020 - 15:00

If you are reading Opensource.com, you might be able to code, and you are probably reading this on an open source browser on some elusive Linux distro. You probably have not seen a browser ad in years because you are running an open source ad blocker. You feel warm and fuzzy when you think about penguins.


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