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Intel Brings IBM POWER CPU Support To Their Deep Neural Network Library

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 07:08
Besides the code itself to Intel's oneAPI being open-source, the company is being surprisingly open about its support even for areas of usage outside of x86_64 CPUs...

Linux's exFAT File-System Driver Can Now "FSCK" As Fast As Windows

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 06:52
Samsung engineers responsible for the modern exFAT file-system driver for Linux have updated the adjoining "exfatprogs" user-space programs around this file-system. Notable to exfatprogs-1.0.4 is much faster "fsck" file-system checking support...

Eight Great Features Of Linux 5.8

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 01:00
If all goes well the Linux 5.8 kernel will be released as stable this weekend. Linus Torvalds last weekend expressed some uncertainty whether an extra release candidate would be required, but so far this week the kernel Git activity is light, thus for the moment at least is looking like 5.8 will be christened on Sunday...

"Speakup" Promoted Out Of Staging For Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Fri, 07/31/2020 - 23:34
The Speakup screen reader that is built into the kernel and allows for speaking all text printed to the text console from boot-up to shutdown for assisting blind individuals is now being promoted out of staging with Linux 5.9...

X.Org's Latest Security Woes Are Bugs In LibX11, Xserver

Phoronix - Fri, 07/31/2020 - 21:54
The X.Org/X11 Server has been hit by many security vulnerabilities over the past decade as security researchers eye more open-source software. Some of these vulnerabilities date back to even the 80's and 90's given how X11 has built up over time. The X.Org Server security was previously characterized as being even worse than it looks while today the latest vulnerabilities have been made public...

GTK 3.99 Released With The GTK4 Toolkit Finally Close To Debut

Phoronix - Fri, 07/31/2020 - 21:14
The developers working long on the GTK4 toolkit are finally close to declaring version 4.0...

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