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AMD/ROCm "AOMP" Compiler Enables OpenMP 5.0 By Default, Preps For More Upstreaming

Phoronix - Wed, 07/01/2020 - 07:30
AOMP 11.6-2 is out this evening as the final Radeon Open Compute update for H1'2020. This is AMD's LLVM Clang downstream focused on providing OpenMP offloading to Radeon GPUs...

Intel Unveils New "KMB" DRM Driver For Their New SoC With An ARM CPU + Movidius VPU

Phoronix - Wed, 07/01/2020 - 05:46
Intel has introduced a new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver for Linux...

Fedora Looks To Introduce The Storage Instantiation Daemon

Phoronix - Wed, 07/01/2020 - 04:09
As one of the last minute change proposals for Fedora 33 is to introduce the Red Hat backed Storage Instantiation Daemon "SID" though at least for this first release would be off by default. The Storage Instantiation Daemon is one of the latest storage efforts being worked on by Red Hat engineers...

Crust Drops Paywall For Open-Source CRM Alternative To Salesforce

Phoronix - Wed, 07/01/2020 - 00:28
The Crust CRM suite that aims to compete with Salesforce has been open-source under an Apache 2.0 license but now its paywall has been dropped to make it more compelling as a free software CRM suite...

Fedora Developers Discussing Possibility Of Dropping Legacy BIOS Support

Phoronix - Tue, 06/30/2020 - 23:30
Fedora stakeholders are debating the merits of potentially ending legacy BIOS support for the Linux distribution and to only support UEFI-based installations...

Benchmarking The Performance Overhead To Linux's Proposed FGKASLR Security Feature

Phoronix - Tue, 06/30/2020 - 22:40
One of the security improvements being worked on in recent months by Intel's open-source team has been FGKASLR. But how is the performance overhead compared to just traditional KASLR? Here are benchmarks looking at the performance impact of FGKASLR on top, just KASLR, and then no address space layout randomization.

Should API-restricting licenses qualify as open source?

opensource.com - Tue, 06/30/2020 - 22:01

In its 2014 Oracle v. Google decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the method declarations and "structure, sequence, and organization" (SSO) of the Java SE API were protected by copyright.


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