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HP ZBook 17 G6 Has The Most Impressive Mobile Workstation Performance We've Seen Yet

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2020 - 03:40
For those that may be working from home more frequently now and looking for a very capable laptop to serve as a mobile workstation, HP's ZBook 17 G6 is the most powerful contender we have tested to date that offers great performance potential paired with very reliable build quality and also offering easy upgrade potential.

Microsoft Announces "DirectX 12 Ultimate"

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2020 - 02:16
While not Linux specific news, for those interested in graphics APIs or cross-platform aspects of gaming, Microsoft today announced DirectX 12 Ultimate...

LLVM 10.0 Release Pushed Back By Another Week Over Last Minute Bugs

Phoronix - Thu, 03/19/2020 - 22:26
LLVM 10.0 along with the likes of Clang 10.0 were supposed to be out nearly one month ago but instead a fifth release candidate arrived today...

Tools for monitoring, introvert inclusion, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Thu, 03/19/2020 - 21:55

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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MHI: Linux 5.7 Getting A New Bus From Qualcomm

Phoronix - Thu, 03/19/2020 - 21:00
Linux 5.7 will support the MHI protocol developed by Qualcomm as part of the new kernel bus being introduced...

Linux Developers Discuss Flushing L1 Cache On Context Switches In Light Of Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Thu, 03/19/2020 - 19:10
In light of data sampling vulnerabilities like MDS, engineers from Amazon, Google, and other organizations are discussing a proof-of-concept implementation that would optionally flush the L1 data cache on context switches...

AMD SEV-ES Guest Support Updated With More Improvements, Rebased

Phoronix - Thu, 03/19/2020 - 18:39
Back in February came patches for AMD SEV-ES "Encrypted State" support as building off the Linux kernel's existing support for Secure Encrypted Virtualization in conjunction with AMD EPYC processors. The SEV-ES enablement work has now been revised...

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