Open-source News

Git 2.28 Now Shipping With Feature For Configurable Default/Main Branch Name

Phoronix - Tue, 07/28/2020 - 01:16
Git 2.28 is now officially out this Monday and features continued work on moving off the "master" default branch naming as well as the ongoing work around ultimately transitioning from SHA1 to SHA256 for hashing to prevent possible collisions...

Getting started as an open source builder and more industry trends

opensource.com - Tue, 07/28/2020 - 00:30

As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are three of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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Firefox 79 Is Ready To Ship With Safeguard On "_blank" Links, More Wayland VA-API Work

Phoronix - Mon, 07/27/2020 - 23:53
Firefox 79.0 isn't scheduled to be formally announced until Tuesday but the release binaries have now hit Mozilla's FTP servers...

GCC Benchmarks At Varying Optimization Levels With Core i9 10900K Show An Unexpected Surprise

Phoronix - Mon, 07/27/2020 - 22:07
With the Intel Core i9 10900K "Comet Lake" processor here are some fresh GCC compiler benchmarks when looking at the performance of GCC 8.4 versus 9.3 versus a 10.2 snapshot while testing with optimization flags of -O2, -O3 -march=native, and -O3 -march=native -flto.

Linux Kernel Prepping To Make Use Of Intel's New SERIALIZE Instruction

Phoronix - Mon, 07/27/2020 - 19:15
As outlined a few months ago, Intel's future Sapphire Rapids and Alder Lake processors are set to add a SERIALIZE instruction. That SERIALIZE instruction ensures all flags/register/memory modifications are complete as well as draining all buffered writes to memory before the next instruction is executed. Linux is moving forward with preparing to make use of this new CPU instruction in its function for stopping speculative execution and prefetching of modified code...

DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Intel + Radeon Linux-Ported Graphics Driver Code

Phoronix - Mon, 07/27/2020 - 18:40
DragonFlyBSD developer François Tigeot continues his trek of near single-handedly porting the Intel and Radeon DRM graphics driver code from the Linux kernel to this BSD...

How to Install Lighttpd with PHP, MariaDB and PhpMyAdmin in Ubuntu

Tecmint - Mon, 07/27/2020 - 17:55
Lighttpd is an open-source web server for Linux machines, very fast and very small in size, it doesn’t require a lot of memory and CPU usage which makes it one of the best servers

MikroBUS Patches Being Worked On For Better Supporting These Add-On Boards Under Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 07/27/2020 - 16:08
MikroBUS is the open add-on board standard aiming for "maximum expandability with the smallest number of pins". MikroBUS already has fairly robust industry support particularly in the embedded space while finally a mikroBUS mainline kernel driver may be near for Linux to improve the status quo of driver support...

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