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LLVM Backend In Development For China's C-SKY Embedded CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 08/21/2020 - 18:40
The Chinese-developed C-SKY CPU architecture for 32-bit SoCs and embedded processors could soon see an LLVM back-end to complement the C-SKY support found since GCC 9...

Allowing cc/c++ To Be More Easily Changed Out Has Been Deferred To Fedora 34

Phoronix - Fri, 08/21/2020 - 15:43
Proposed last year for Fedora 32 was aiming to make it easier to swap out GCC for other alternate compilers (like Clang) by using the update-alternatives functionality on Fedora for handling the /usr/bin/cc and /usr/bin/c++ symbolic links. That work was deferred to Fedora 33 as it wasn't completed in time while now it's been deferred yet again to Fedora 34 next year...

Solving the AIOps, DevOps, and ITSM conundrum

opensource.com - Fri, 08/21/2020 - 15:02

The recent mad rush to scale to remote work may prove to be a key chapter in DevOps and AIOps evolution. This need for rapid, widescale change is creating a real conundrum concerning AIOps, DevOps, and ITSM, as organizations seek the best monitoring and incident response solution for their now distributed enterprises.

The key question both the DevOps and IT service management (ITSM) communities need to answer is how quickly they can pivot and adapt to increasing demands for operational intelligence.


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3 ways a legal team can enable open source

opensource.com - Fri, 08/21/2020 - 15:01

I am an open source lawyer for Red Hat. One important part of my job is to provide information to other companies, including their in-house counsel, about how Red Hat builds enterprise-class products with a completely open source development model and answering their questions about open source licensing in general.


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Being open to open values

opensource.com - Fri, 08/21/2020 - 15:00

In this installment of our "Managing with Open Values" series, I chat with Braxton, Director of Pricing for a nationwide U.S. insurance company and people manager.


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LLVM 11.0-RC2 Released For This Widely-Used, Open-Source Compiler Stack

Phoronix - Fri, 08/21/2020 - 12:02
The second and possibly final release candidate of LLVM 11.0 is now available for testing...

Radeon ROCm 3.7 Release Enables OpenMP 5.0 By Default In AOMP

Phoronix - Fri, 08/21/2020 - 09:00
AMD's software team has released version 3.7 of ROCm, the Radeon Open Compute stack as their alternative to NVIDIA's closed-source CUDA compute environment...

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