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4 open source chat applications you should use right now

opensource.com - Thu, 04/23/2020 - 15:00

The first thing we usually do after waking up in the morning is to check our cellphone to see if there are important messages from our colleagues and friends. Whether or not it's a good idea, this behavior has become part of our daily lifestyle.

"Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe."
– Anatole France


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Facebook Posts Latest Memory Controller Patches With Up To 45% Better Slab Utilization

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2020 - 14:20
Facebook engineer Roman Gushchin presented a new slab memory controller for Linux last September. The new memory controller has been very promising with the potential of using 30~40% less memory and less memory fragmentation, among other benefits. The third revision to that kernel work has now been sent out for evaluation...

Loongson Linux Work Continues - Dual Socket Support, Loongson-7A1000 Enablement

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2020 - 12:04
Loongson, the Chinese MIPS64 CPUs that are becoming more common within China but not so much internationally, continues seeing better Linux kernel support. There has been a fair amount of Loongson Linux work in recent months including in the current 5.7 cycle while more should be on tap for Linux 5.8...

People, process and technology: Red Hat's take on business continuity

Red Hat News - Thu, 04/23/2020 - 12:00

Red Hat is invested in helping our customers keep business continuity and we're relying on our people, processes, and technology to navigate the special challenges that we all face from COVID-19. We truly are all in this together. In this post, we'll look at how these have come into play for Red Hat, and what might make sense for your organization in responding to the new challenges we're facing together.

Red Hat awards North American partners for commitment to open source innovation

Red Hat News - Thu, 04/23/2020 - 12:00

Partners play an integral role in the success of Red Hat and our customers. From building advanced hybrid cloud solutions to facilitating innovation with open source technology, Red Hat’s partner ecosystem enables customers to solve industry problems. The Red Hat North America Partner Awards celebrate our dedicated partners and their continued efforts to support customers on the path to IT modernization. 

Mesa 20.0.5 Released With The Latest Batch Of Intel/AMD Graphics Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2020 - 06:43
While Mesa 20.1 will soon be hitting its feature freeze with hopes of releasing as stable in May, for now the Mesa 20.0 series is the "latest and greatest" on the stable front. Mesa 20.0.5 rolled out today with three weeks worth of fixes...

LLVM Clang Now Has Support For Custom-Width Integers With _ExtInt

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2020 - 01:36
While the C language committing is still evaluating adding N-bit integer support to the programming language, LLVM's Clang compiler has already added its experimental _ExtInt() implementation...

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