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The GNU + FSF Relationship Remains Complicated But They Are Drafting A Framework

Phoronix - Fri, 02/07/2020 - 08:17
Following last year's resignation of Richard Stallman from the Free Software Foundation under public pressure but remaining as head of the GNU Project for these tight-knit organizations, the two organizations have needed to figure out how to cooperate moving forward...

Linux 5.6 NFS Client Adds New Option To Use Cache If NFS Server Connection Lost

Phoronix - Fri, 02/07/2020 - 07:28
With the NFS client are a few new features with its code to be found in Linux 5.6...

GNOME Shell + Mutter See Big Last Minute Improvements With The GNOME 3.36 Beta

Phoronix - Fri, 02/07/2020 - 05:24
GNOME Shell and Mutter are out with their v3.35.90 releases today for the planned GNOME 3.36 beta...

AMD Contributing MIGraphX/ROCm Back-End To Microsoft's ONNX Runtime For Machine Learning

Phoronix - Fri, 02/07/2020 - 01:33
AMD is adding a MIGraphX/ROCm back-end to Microsoft's ONNX run-time for machine learning inferencing to allow for Radeon GPU acceleration...

Firefox 72 vs. Chrome 80 Browser Performance On Ubuntu Linux With AMD Ryzen

Phoronix - Fri, 02/07/2020 - 00:47
Given this week's release of Google Chrome 80, here are fresh benchmarks of Chrome 80 against Firefox 72 on Linux plus also a run with Firefox's WebRender option being enabled. This round of tests was under an Ubuntu 20.04 snapshot with AMD Ryzen processor and AMD Radeon VII graphics.

Linux 5.6 KVM Expands AMD APIC Virtualization Support With Dynamic APICv

Phoronix - Fri, 02/07/2020 - 00:12
A second round of KVM virtualization updates were sent out today for the Linux 5.6 merge window that is still open through the weekend...

Mozilla Developer Talks Up WGPU As Their WebGPU Implementation In Rust

Phoronix - Thu, 02/06/2020 - 23:03
Mozilla developer Dzmitry Malyshau has provided an update on WGPU, their implementation of WebGPU built off GFX-RS and Rust for next-gen graphics and compute on the web...

Unity 8 + Mir Is Being Packaged Up For Debian

Phoronix - Thu, 02/06/2020 - 22:06
Debian developer Mike Gabriel in cooperation with the UBports developers continuing to maintain Ubuntu Touch and Unity 8 are working to offer Unity 8 (and in turn, Mir) packages within Debian...

Intel Open-Source Developer Has Been Working On "FGKASLR" For Better Kernel Security

Phoronix - Thu, 02/06/2020 - 20:13
As another step towards tightening up the Linux kernel security, Intel's Kristen Carlson Accardi has proposed "FGKASLR" as a significant step forward for better enhancing the Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization...

VirtIO-FS Is Looking Quite Good For Shared File-System With VMs

Phoronix - Thu, 02/06/2020 - 19:58
Added back to Linux 5.4 was VirtIO-FS for better file/folder sharing with guest VMs that makes use of the FUSE protocol but is much faster than the likes of virtio-9p...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Likely To Ship With Linux 5.4 As Opposed To 5.5

Phoronix - Thu, 02/06/2020 - 19:45
While the Linux 5.5 is out as stable today and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS isn't shipping until late April, it looks like they are settling on the use of the Linux 5.4 series, rather than the newer 5.5 and Linux 5.6 would be cutting too close to release anyhow for making this long-term support release...

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