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Upstreaming of LLVM's Fortran front-end developed as "f18" and being upstreamed with the Flang name was supposed to happen back in January. Three months later, the developers still are struggling to get the code into shape for integration...

The Linux 5.7 crypto subsystem updates include new drivers...

Linux 5.7 Gets A Unified/User-Space-Access-Intended Accelerator Framework  Phoronix

While GCC 10 isn't even out for a few more weeks, looking ahead to next year's GCC 11 release is already one interesting planned change...

Manjaro Linux and TUXEDO Computers launch custom InfinityBook laptop  BetaNews

WireGuard VPN added to Linux 5.6  Techradar Australia

IDE to develop Embedded Linux device driver | All About Circuits  All About Circuits

The networking changes for the Linux 5.7 kernel have already been merged and as usual there is a lot of new wired and wireless networking driver activity...

Linux 5.7 Networking Changes Bring Qualcomm IPA, New Intel Driver Additions  Phoronix

Intel used AMD code to get a 10% frame-rate boost in some Linux games  TechRadar Singapore

WireGuard VPN added to Linux 5.6  TechRadar India

WireGuard VPN added to Linux 5.6  TechRadar UK

Intel has seemingly just updated their public programming reference manual as well as sending out some new patches to the GCC compiler for supporting new instructions on yet-to-be-released CPUs...

Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana": All New Features And Release Date  Fossbytes

Ubuntu Linux publisher Canonical launches Managed Apps for enterprise DevOps teams  BetaNews

The Linux 5.7 Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates have been submitted as the kernel graphics driver changes for this next kernel feature release. As usual, there is a lot of work especially on the Intel and AMD Radeon side while nothing was queued for the open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver...

Linux 5.7 Graphics Driver Updates Enable Tiger Lake By Default, OLED Backlight Support  Phoronix

If you are looking for a new desktop-friendly BSD with TrueOS being phased out, GhostBSD 20.03 is out as the promising desktop-focused OS based on FreeBSD and using the MATE desktop environment as a decent out-of-the-box experience...

Telecom HPE, Intel and Linux Foundation building open source software for 5G core  Fudzilla

Is the Switch from Windows to Linux Really That Hard?  Softpedia News