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How to Install Ubuntu 20.04 Server

Tecmint - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 13:36
Ubuntu Server 20.04, also named Focal Fossa, has been released by Canonical and it’s now ready for installation. This article will walk you through the process of installing Ubuntu 20.04 Server Edition with Long...

OpenCL 3.0 Bringing Greater Flexibility, Async DMA Extensions

Phoronix - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 13:00
OpenCL 3.0 is being released today in provisional form. OpenCL 3.0 is making OpenCL 2.x functionality now optional to make it better suited for a range of devices plus there is new functionality introduced like subgroups, extensions for asynchronous data copies, and more.

More ways Red Hat is here to help

Red Hat News - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 12:00

When we made the decision to move Red Hat Summit from a physical event in San Francisco to an online-only virtual experience, we also reconsidered what we put our focus on this week. 

Red Hat extends several product life cycles to ease migration pressures

Red Hat News - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 12:00

Red Hat's lifecycles are carefully planned to give our customers a stable platform for building, deploying and maintaining their applications while also delivering innovation at a steady pace. Red Hat understands that undertaking planned migrations during this crisis is more challenging than usual, and we want to help take pressure off organizations while they are focused on near-term operations.

Vulkan 1.2.139 Released With VK_EXT_robustness2 Extension

Phoronix - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 12:00
The routine Vulkan 1.2.139 maintenance update brings with it two new extensions...

Linux 5.7-rc3 Kernel Released: "In A World Gone Mad, The Kernel Looks Almost Boringly Regular"

Phoronix - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 06:00
Linus Torvalds just released the third weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 5.7 kernel...

Manjaro 20.0 Released With Its Flagship Easy-To-Use, Arch-Based Xfce Desktop Distro

Phoronix - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 05:32
Manjaro 20.0 "Lysia" is out today with its flagship Xfce spin as well as its GNOME and KDE editions for this popular, desktop-minded, Arch-based Linux distribution...

Wine Patches Cleaned Up, Out For Review On Very Early POWER 64-Bit Support

Phoronix - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 03:47
With the Raptor Blackbird popular among open-source enthusiasts for a libre 64-bit Linux desktop compute and that getting more POWER9 hardware out in the wild, more users are interested in seeing Wine work for 64-bit POWER hardware. Last year was some early porting work done by Raptor Computing Systems but now a cleaned up patch series has been sent out with this very primitive PPC64 work...

Intel SGX Enclaves Support For Linux Sent Out For A 29th Time

Phoronix - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 00:27
Going on since 2016 has been the long-running effort getting the Software Guard Extensions (SGX) support into the mainline Linux kernel. Sent out this week was the SGX foundation patches for the twenty-ninth time as it works to get into shape for upstream acceptance...

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