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Thanks Oracle! New Patches Pending Can Reduce Linux Boot Times Up To ~49%

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 22:46
While many don't look upon Oracle's open-source software contributions too eagerly, some new patches out by their team can dramatically benefit Linux kernel boot times and they are working on getting it upstream. The numbers are already very promising and further work is also underway to make the improvement even more tantalizing...

NVIDIA Gets Into Open-Source Hardware With A Ventilator Design

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 21:28
While waiting to see what NVIDIA will be doing on the open-source driver front that has been pushed back, NVIDIA made a surprise open-source announcement today...

AMDGPU TMZ Support Wired Up For Linux 5.8

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 21:04
In addition to Intel sending in new feature code to DRM-Next, AMD developers on Thursday also sent in their AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature updates for Linux 5.8...

Intel's Cloud Hypervisor 0.7 Adds More Hotplug Capabilities, Musl Libc, SECCOMP Sandbox

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 20:22
Intel's server software team continues working on Cloud-Hypervisor as a Rust-written hypervisor for modern Linux VMs. Cloud-Hypervisor has been picking up a lot of features and out today is another pre-1.0 feature release...

Intel Graphics Code Seeing More Tiger Lake Action, Power Efficiency Work For Linux 5.8

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 18:46
Intel's graphics driver team continues amassing more changes for Linux 5.8...

GhostBSD 20.04 Released With Fixes, Updated Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 18:35
GhostBSD 20.04 is out as the newest monthly update to this desktop-focused operating system built off the FreeBSD base...

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