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Linux 5.6 Media Updates Bring Improvements For Rockchip Users

Phoronix - Sun, 02/02/2020 - 01:04
The Linux 5.6 media driver updates have landed in the kernel...

GNU Binutils 2.34 + GNU C Library 2.31 Released

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2020 - 22:26
Two important pieces of the GNU toolchain saw new releases to kickoff February...

Intel Gateway SoC Enablement Continues With Linux 5.6 Plus Other PCI/PCIe Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2020 - 20:34
There is plenty of PCI work that landed for the Linux 5.6 kernel merge window...

Kernel Talk, AMD Hardware + Other Popular Linux Topics Of January

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2020 - 16:56
During the first month of 2020 on Phoronix were 305 original news stories and another 18 Linux hardware reviews / featured-length articles. Here is a look back at what has been exciting Linux and open-source enthusiasts so far in 2020...

ProtonVPN adopts GPLv3, Mozilla Thunderbird gets new home, and more news

opensource.com - Sat, 02/01/2020 - 16:00

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look ProtonVPN apps going open, Microsoft's code analysis tool, Mozilla Thunderbird's new home, and more!

ProtonVPN apps go open source

People wanting to use the internet securely and privately do the deed using a Virtual Private Network (VPN). But which VPNs can you really trust? The company behind the popular ProtonVPN service made a big move to gain that trust by releasing the source code for all its apps.


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Intel MKL-DNN/DNNL 1.2 Released With Performance Improvements For Deep Learning On CPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2020 - 15:37
Intel on Friday released Deep Neural Network Library (DNNL) version 1.2, formerly known as MKL-DNN. With this release comes both new features and better performance...

/dev/random Is More Like /dev/urandom With Linux 5.6

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2020 - 14:18
The random changes have been sent in for Linux 5.6 that yield /dev/random behavioral changes and a new random flag...

Ingenic X1000 SoC Being Supported By The Linux 5.6 Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2020 - 13:00
Adding to the Linux 5.6 excitement is the hardware enablement of the MIPS-based Ingenic X1000 SoC...

University of Illinois Releases HPVM As Heterogeneous Parallel Systems Compiler

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2020 - 08:11
University of Illinois and associated developers have released HPVM 0.5, their LLVM-based compiler infrastructure for Heterogeneous Parallel Systems with CPU execution and OpenCL-based NVIDIA GPU support...

Intel MPX Support Is Dead With Linux 5.6

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2020 - 07:36
Following on from last week's story that it was looking like Linux 5.6 would drop Intel MPX support, that has now taken place...

GNU C Library 2.31 Nearing With Experimental C2X Support, Time Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2020 - 05:39
GNU C Library 2.31 (Glibc 2.31) should be releasing in the days ahead and is now under a hard freeze for this next feature release to this important libc implementation...

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