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Haiku Seeing Better Rust Support Following Important Fix

Phoronix - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 19:00
Following a summer quest for figuring out a pesky thread issue with Rust, a fix has been merged into the BeOS-inspired Haiku kernel for one less patch to worry about with getting this popular programming language running well...

Want to make better decisions? Encourage disagreement

opensource.com - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 15:00

Using an inclusive process can lead to better group decisions—ones that empower a group and grant it ownership of the decision. But all open decision making processes should do something else if they're going to succeed: enable dissent.


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Machine Check Banks To Double With Future AMD CPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 01:35
In preparation for "future AMD systems", which is likely AMD EPYC Zen 3 "Milan" server processors, there will be more banks for the Machine Check Exception handling...

Chrome 87 Dev Builds Trying Again With X11+Wayland Ozone Enabled

Phoronix - Sat, 09/05/2020 - 21:42
While Chrome 86 entered beta with many features, Chrome 87 in development has re-enabled the Wayland+X11 Ozone support as another attempt at improving the Wayland support experience off the single binary...

Intel IWD 1.9 Released With New Capabilities

Phoronix - Sat, 09/05/2020 - 18:55
Intel's iNet Wireless Daemon (IWD) is out with a new feature release with this daemon continuing to see new usage and possibly on Ubuntu moving forward...

KDE Starts September With Faster Konsole Launching, Dolphin Thumbnail Generation

Phoronix - Sat, 09/05/2020 - 18:37
KDE has kicked off the new month with some interesting improvements...

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