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Linux Foundation prepares for disaster, new anti-tracking data set, Mozilla goes back to mobile OSes, and more open source news

opensource.com - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 15:01

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the Linux Foundation's disaster relief project, DuckDuckGo's anti-tracking tool, open textbooks, and more!


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How to Set Up NFS Server and Client on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 14:51
Network File System (NFS) also known as client/server file system is a popular, cross-platform and distributed file system protocol used to export local file systems over the network so that clients can share directories...

Fwupd+LVFS Begins Rolling Out Firmware Update Support For NVMe SSDs

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 12:00
Moving forward it will hopefully become easier updating NVMe solid-state drive device firmware under Linux...

Wine 5.4 Released With Unicode 13 Support, Text Drawing For D3DX9 To Fix 10 Year Old Bug

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 04:38
Wine 5.4 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release and it comes with a number of improvements...

AMD AOMP 0.7-7 Released For Radeon OpenMP Offloading

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 03:45
Announced at the end of last year was Radeon Open Compute 3.0 with the new "AOMP" compiler. Today a new version of AOMP has been released for OpenMP offloading support to AMD Radeon GPUs...

LLVM 10.0 RC4 Released Due To Last Minute Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 03:25
LLVM 10.0-RC3 was released last week as what was supposed to be the last release candidate of the cycle after being challenged by delays already. However, last minute issues with RC3 has led to LLVM 10.0-RC4 coming out today...

Linux CFS Improvement Forthcoming To Help With Faster Spreading Of CPU Utilization

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 02:29
A rather simple improvement to the Linux CFS scheduler's load balancing code appears to have measurable benefits with helping to more quickly spread the task utilization across the system...

Intel Linux Driver Getting Skylake/Gen9 Port Sync To Fix 5K Tiled Display Issues

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 02:02
A four year old Intel Linux display driver bug around corruption issues when trying to drive tiled displays (namely 5K+ setups with dual DisplayPort connections) on Intel "Gen9" graphics hardware for Skylake up until Icelake could soon be marked as resolved...

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