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LXD 4.0 LTS Released For Offering The Latest Linux Containers Experience

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 21:00
Ahead of the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release later this month, the Canonical folks working on LXD for Linux containers and VMs have released LXD 4.0 LTS...

Btrfs File-System Updates Land In Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 20:46
SUSE's David Sterba sent in the Btrfs file-system updates this week for the Linux 5.7 kernel...

LLVM Plumbs Support For Intel Golden Cove's New SERIALIZE Instruction

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 19:07
Yesterday we noted Intel's programming reference manual being updated with new Golden Cove instructions for Sapphire Rapids and Alder Lake and with that Intel's open-source developers have begun pushing their changes to the compilers. The latest updates add TSXLDTRK, a new HYBRID bit for Core+Atom hybrd CPUs, and a new SERIALIZE instruction. After GCC was receiving the patch attention yesterday, LLVM is getting its attention today...

Linux 5.6.2 Released With Fix For The IWLWIFI Intel WiFi Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 18:31
Basically a half-week after Linux 5.6 shipped as stable, we are up to the second point release of it...

Intel 10th Gen H-Series Mobile CPUs Hit Up To 5.3GHz

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 18:18
Days after AMD announced their full Ryzen 4000 series mobile CPU line-up, Intel has now introduced their 10th Gen Core H-series processors...

GCC 10 Release Candidate Likely Hitting In The Next Few Weeks

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 16:37
The month of April usually sees the new annual GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) feature releases and for GCC 10 in the form of GCC 10.1 as the first stable release in the series does stand chances of releasing this month...

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