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Matrix encrypted chat rolls out across Germany, Project ACRN's new IoT release, and more open source news

opensource.com - Sat, 08/08/2020 - 15:00

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, an open source microfluidics pump, Germany rolls out an encrypted messaging platform based on Matrix, and more open source news.


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Char/Misc Is Still Quite Busy With Linux 5.9 Still Lacking An "Accelerator" Subsystem

Phoronix - Sat, 08/08/2020 - 12:02
The "char/misc" area of the kernel continues to be quite busy for Linux 5.9 included as a sort of "catch-all" for the Linux kernel drivers not properly jiving within other areas. While there previously was talk of formally making a hardware accelerator subsystem for the Linux kernel for fitting some of the drivers currently living under char/misc, as of Linux 5.9 that still has not materialized...

Mageia 8 Beta 1 Released With Many Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 08/08/2020 - 06:23
The first beta of the forthcoming Mageia 8 is now available, the Linux distribution that traces its roots back to Mandriva/Mandrake...

ARM Now Defaulting To Schedutil Governor, Other Power Management Work For Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Sat, 08/08/2020 - 04:00
There are a number of notable power management changes to find with the Linux 5.9 kernel...

How A Raspberry Pi 4 Performs Against Intel's Latest Celeron, Pentium CPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 08/08/2020 - 01:09
Following the recent Intel Comet Lake Celeron and Pentium CPU benchmarking against other x86_64 Intel/AMD CPUs, here was a bit of fun... Seeing how these budget Intel CPUs compare to a Raspberry Pi 4 in various processor benchmarks, all tested on Debian Linux...

Wine 5.0.2 Released With Fixes For Various Games, Windows Applications

Phoronix - Sat, 08/08/2020 - 00:39
For those using Wine in a production environment for running Windows software on Linux, Wine 5.0.2 is out as the latest stable update...

Linux 5.9 Exposes Device Link Details Via Sysfs, Allows Hiding DebugFS From User-Space

Phoronix - Fri, 08/07/2020 - 23:29
There are a few driver core changes for the Linux 5.9 kernel worth mentioning...

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