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Haiku OS Gearing Up For 2021 With Improving ARM Port, Other Hardware Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 02:27
Haiku as the open-source OS inspired by BeOS continues to be quite active in feature development as 2020 draws to a close...

Linux 5.11 Drops AMD Zen Voltage/Current Reporting Over Lack Of Documentation

Phoronix - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 01:17
The Linux hardware monitoring "k10temp" driver is dropping support for reporting CPU voltage and current information for AMD Zen-based processors over lack of documentation for being able to properly support the functionality...

The Fastest Linux OS For AMD Ryzen Zen 3? It's Still Intel Clear Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 12/22/2020 - 23:00
As we have shown with prior AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors, the Linux distribution generally offering the fastest out-of-the-box performance is Intel's Clear Linux platform. Given there aren't many other distributions as aggressively optimizing their default package set and engaging in features like AutoFDO, PGO, and various out-of-tree patches in the name of modern Intel x86_64 Linux performance -- and in turn, AMD performance benefits as well -- Clear Linux really shines with modern hardware. Testing of the latest Clear Linux with a Ryzen 9 5900X continues to delivering promising performance compared to the likes of Fedora, openSUSE, Manjaro, Debian, and Ubuntu.

FlightGear 2020.3.5 Released With Hundreds Of Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 12/22/2020 - 22:57
If you miss flying this holiday season due to the pandemic, you can at least experience it virtually by flying your own aircraft with the open-source, cross-platform FlightGear flight simulator software...

Debian 11 "Bullseye" KDE Stack Settling On Plasma 5.20

Phoronix - Tue, 12/22/2020 - 19:55
Ahead of the upcoming freezes set to begin around Debian 11 "Bullseye", the Debian developers working on KDE packaging have been working to get all the latest components updated in time...

Linspire 10 Beta Released - Claims To Be #1 Linux Distro For New/Intermediate/Power Users

Phoronix - Tue, 12/22/2020 - 19:39
Linspire, an early Linux distribution with its roots tracing back to "Lindows" that went dormant and then resurrected in 2018 and continuing an Ubuntu-based distribution, is out ahead of the holidays with its Linspire 10 beta release...

Xen Offers Up Security Fixes With Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Tue, 12/22/2020 - 19:27
Unlike the KVM additions, the Xen hypervisor for the Linux 5.11 merge window doesn't bring any new features but just security fixes for some new vulnerabilities...

Patch Proposed For Removing BZIP2 Support From The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 12/22/2020 - 16:52
For at least a second time, a patch sent out under "request for comments" would strip out the existing BZIP2 code within the Linux kernel...

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