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Kaidan is the open-source project that last year joined KDE as a Jabber/XMPP chat client. After a half year of work, Kaidan 0.5 has finally been released...

Editor’s note: Today, we announced that Paul Cormier will assume the role of president and chief executive officer of Red Hat, succeeding Jim Whitehurst. Paul shared the following email with all of our associates around the world. 

Hi everyone, 

For the past 20 years, Paul Cormier has helped design, craft and ultimately drive Red Hat's product direction, from the communities we support to the new technology sectors we enter. Now as president and CEO, Paul will be responsible for executing the vision for Red Hat as a whole, not just as our product leader. 

Huawei Joins Linux Patent Consortium 'Open Invention Network'  The Fast Mode

The perf subsystem continues to be quite lively with improvements and for Linux 5.7 is seeing a number of low-level improvements...

Linux 5.7 Perf Changes Include Additions For AMD Zen 3, Intel Tiger Lake  Phoronix

The second development release of the Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 cross-platform benchmarking software is now available for evaluation and testing...

On Friday I posted some initial numbers looking at the LVI mitigation impact when using the LLVM Clang compiler with that open-source, multi-platform compiler having landed its mitigation this week for Intel's Load Value Injection (LVI) vulnerability that was disclosed in March. Through the weekend I have been running some additional tests of this compiler-based mitigation and in this article are some numbers off Cascade Lake Refresh, which while recently released is reported by Intel to still be vulnerable to this new disclosure.

Both of IBM's s390 and POWER CPU architectures are seeing secure/protected guest virtual machine support with KVM on the in-development Linux 5.7 kernel...

KVM With Linux 5.7 Supporting Protected/Secure VM Guests For IBM POWER + s390  Phoronix

While XFS dates back to the 90's and has been in the Linux kernel for nearly two decades, this proven file-system continues aging gracefully and continuing to see more improvements. With Linux 5.7 is another step forward for XFS...

XFS Working Towards Online Repair, Many Underlying Improvements  Phoronix

Astro Slide is a Smartphone/Pocket-Computer that Supports Android and Linux  Beebom

KDE developers managed to squeeze some long-problematic I/O optimizations into the KDE code-base this week along with other enhancements to make for a nice first week of April...

The work led by VMware on allowing the Direct Rendering Manager's TTM memory management code support huge page tables has been added to Linux 5.7...

In Nine Lies About Work, authors Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall examine what we might consider "common theories" about aspects of contemporary organizational life—and they debunk those theories. The book's so-called "lies" are, therefore, not really lies but rather common beliefs about work that simply aren't accurate in actual working environments today.

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An important infrastructure change with the Linux 5.7 kernel now allows the ability to create a process in a different cgroup from the parent process...

Linux 5.7 To Support Spawning A Process In A Different Cgroup From Its Parent  Phoronix

The MIPS architecture improvements for Linux 5.7 are headlined by Loongson support improvements for those Chinese manufactured MIPS64 platforms...

Loongson Improvements Land In Linux 5.7 To Improve The Chinese MIPS CPUs  Phoronix