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Intel Emmitsburg Support Begins Appearing In Linux 5.9  Phoronix

NihAV is a new open-source, multimedia framework being pursued by FFmpeg/Libav developer Kostya Shishkov...

Linus Torvalds: Linux 5.8 "One among our Largest Releases of All Time"  Editorials 360

Save 98% off the Complete 2020 Learn Linux Bundle - now only $69  Neowin

Save 98% off the Complete 2020 Learn Linux Bundle - now only $69  Neowin

While a lot of interesting changes are coming for the in-development Linux 5.9 kernel, sadly a long overdue change isn't going to make the merge window and that is the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub driver...

AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Driver Under Review A Sixth Time For Linux  Phoronix

AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Driver Under Review A Sixth Time For Linux  Phoronix

With Linux 5.8 there is initial support for booting POWER10 CPUs while with Linux 5.9 there is more POWER10 work underway. Additionally, Linux 5.9 is bringing support for the newer and faster system call ABI for POWER9 and newer with the SCV instruction...

Linux 5.9 Brings More IBM POWER10 Support, New/Faster SCV System Call ABI  Phoronix

Going back to last year Fedora has been working to enable link-time optimizations by default for their packages. That goal wasn't achieved for Fedora 32 but for Fedora 33 this autumn they still have chances of marking that feature off their TODO list...

Fedora 33 Moving Closer To LTO-Optimizing Packages  Phoronix

CoreELEC 9.2.4 Linux Distro Adds ODROID-N2+ and La Frite SBC Support, Kodi 18.8  LXer

The Fujitsu A64FX ARM processor that has 48 cores per node and 32GB of HBM2 memory that currently powers the fastest supercomputer is beginning to see GCC compiler support...

As an open community evolves, so does the way it expresses its identity to others. And having open conversations about how you'd like your community to be recognized is an important component of community engagement.

Simply put, your community's brand is what people (especially potential contributors) see first when they encounter you. So you want to make sure your brand reflects your community—its values, its principles, and its spirit.

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The "staging" area of the kernel, where new drivers and other code live that has yet to prove itself or live up to kernel code quality standards, saw a few drivers graduate into Linux mainline proper for the current 5.9 cycle...

Several Drivers Promoted Out Of Staging With Linux 5.9  Phoronix

Linux Server Security: 10 Linux Hardening & Security Best Practices  Security Boulevard

There are many improvements in LLVM/Clang 11.0 due out in the weeks ahead though an interesting change merged prior to last month's code branching that slipped under our radar... If using the clang-cl driver for MSVC or when otherwise making use of pre-compiled headers (PCH) functionality, there is a new option that can offer significant build time speed-ups...

Intel's Cloud Hypervisor focused on being a Rustlang-based hypervisor focused for cloud workloads is closing in on the 1.0 milestone. With this week's release of Cloud-Hypervisor 0.9 there is one very exciting feature in particular but also a lot of other interesting changes...