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Picolibc Continues Seeing Improvements, Contributions From Arm

Phoronix - Sun, 08/16/2020 - 19:33
Picolibc is a newer C library implementation written by longtime free software developer Keith Packard with a focus on being lightweight for embedded systems. Last year marked the release of Picolibc 1.0 while work on it hasn't let up...

Paragon Looks To Mainline Their NTFS Read-Write Driver To The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 08/16/2020 - 06:30
With the mainline NTFS driver in the Linux kernel offering read-only support for this widely-used Microsoft file-system and the more popular "ntfs-3g" driver being FUSE-based, Paragon Software is looking to mainline their read-write driver into the mainline kernel tree as a significant improvement over the existing NTFS kernel driver. But in the current state it's not clear if the driver will be accepted...

GNOME 3.38 Beta Released Ahead Of Official Release Next Month

Phoronix - Sun, 08/16/2020 - 06:06
GNOME 3.37.90 has been released this weekend to serve as the beta of the upcoming GNOME 3.38 desktop release...

Intel P-State With Linux 5.9 Adds Passive Mode With Hardware P-States

Phoronix - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 23:47
Merged last week to Linux 5.9 were the main set of power management updates while hitting the kernel now are some last minute power-related changes...

System76 Preparing Coreboot Laptop With Core i9 10900K, Up To 128GB RAM

Phoronix - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 21:52
System76 has been on a spree of interesting hardware launches this year and their next one is a new Bonobo WS ultra high-end laptop...

Wine-Staging 5.15 Brings Systeminfo, Media Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 21:01
Following the release yesterday of Wine 5.15, Wine-Staging 5.15 is out this morning and is coming in slightly smaller as a result of the XACT Engine work being upstreamed...

KDE Plasma 5.20 Seeing More System Settings Work, KDE-Inhibit Helper

Phoronix - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 18:54
KDE developers remain very busy tacking new features onto Plasma 5.20 and other improvements for polishing their desktop...

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