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Registration Opens For 2020 Virtual LLVM Developers' Meeting

Phoronix - Sun, 08/30/2020 - 22:14
Like most conferences this year, the annual LLVM Developers' Meeting has become an online-only affair...

The power of open source during a pandemic

opensource.com - Sun, 08/30/2020 - 15:00

When a novel coronavirus made headlines earlier this year, the world wasn't ready. In a short period of time, we all witnessed the consequences of having a global, interconnected economy unprepared for effective global collaboration. Indeed, this pandemic shed light on the under-preparedness of a truly global economy in a hyper-connected world. We didn't pay attention to the fact that a health issue in China could have an impact on both the real estate market in North Carolina and a shoe factory in Italy.


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Wine-Staging 5.16 Begins Adding Patches For Microsoft Flight Simulator

Phoronix - Sun, 08/30/2020 - 12:00
Building off Friday's release of Wine 5.16 as the newest snapshot for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms, Wine-Staging 5.16 is now available as the latest release for this more bleeding-edge version of Wine...

Lenovo Starts Offering Up Fedora Linux Pre-Loaded Systems From Their Web Store

Phoronix - Sun, 08/30/2020 - 06:22
As a follow up from the news earlier this summer of Lenovo planning to certify their ThinkPad and ThinkStation lines for Linux from Ubuntu and Red Hat while also offering distribution choices like Fedora, that work is proceeding with Lenovo now offering up their first system from their web store that comes pre-loaded with Fedora...

Facebook Still Pursuing "NetGPU" - Working On AMD GPU Support In Addition To NVIDIA

Phoronix - Sun, 08/30/2020 - 01:53
It was the recent Facebook patches for implementing NetGPU that with one of the NVIDIA-focused patches led to the recent controversy around "GPL condoms" in the kernel and ultimately leading to new protections with Linux 5.9. That NetGPU code is still being worked on by Facebook with upstream hopes but now in addition to the NVIDIA driver support they are also working on AMD GPU support with the open-source driver...

Google Is Still Striving To Upstream Incremental FS In Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 08/29/2020 - 22:40
After originally publishing the Incremental FS patches back in May of 2019, Google's Android kernel team is still working to upstream this virtual file-system into the mainline Linux kernel and at this week's Linux Plumbers Conference was working to drum up support for it...

Android AOSP Can Boot Off Mainline Linux 5.9 With Just One Patch

Phoronix - Sat, 08/29/2020 - 22:02
The Android open-source project "AOSP" with its latest code is very close to being able to boot off the mainline Linux kernel when assuming the device drivers are all upstream...

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