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Faster Reading From /dev/zero With Linux 5.10

Phoronix - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 21:45
Queued up in char-misc-next ahead of the Linux 5.10 cycle is a speed-up for reading from /dev/zero.....

Intel Sends Out Linux Patches For FPGA Security Manager

Phoronix - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 21:25
Patches were posted on Friday for introducing the Intel Security Manager class driver to the Linux kernel...

C++20 Draft Approved As Major Update To C++ Programming Language

Phoronix - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 20:38
On Saturday the ISO/IEC 14882:2020 standards draft was approved as the latest major update to the C++ programming language...

Haiku Seeing Better Rust Support Following Important Fix

Phoronix - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 19:00
Following a summer quest for figuring out a pesky thread issue with Rust, a fix has been merged into the BeOS-inspired Haiku kernel for one less patch to worry about with getting this popular programming language running well...

Want to make better decisions? Encourage disagreement

opensource.com - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 15:00

Using an inclusive process can lead to better group decisions—ones that empower a group and grant it ownership of the decision. But all open decision making processes should do something else if they're going to succeed: enable dissent.


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Machine Check Banks To Double With Future AMD CPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 01:35
In preparation for "future AMD systems", which is likely AMD EPYC Zen 3 "Milan" server processors, there will be more banks for the Machine Check Exception handling...

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