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Linux 5.5-rc7 Kernel Released

Phoronix - Mon, 01/20/2020 - 08:27
The seventh weekly release candidate to Linux 5.5 is now available for testing...

GNU Make 4.3 Released With Performance Improvements, Newer GNU libc + Musl Support

Phoronix - Mon, 01/20/2020 - 07:44
While a Red Hat developer is working on "Goals" to try to improve upon Make, the GNU Make project is not slowing down and is out this Sunday with a big update...

The Performance Cost To SELinux On Fedora 31

Phoronix - Mon, 01/20/2020 - 03:10
Following the recent AppArmor performance regression in Linux 5.5 (since resolved), some Phoronix readers had requested tests out of curiosity in looking at the performance impact of Fedora's decision to utilize SELinux by default. Here is how the Fedora Workstation 31 performance compares out-of-the-box with SELinux to disabling it.

Intel's ConnMan Is Ready With WireGuard Support

Phoronix - Sun, 01/19/2020 - 22:36
In addition to NetworkManager having good WireGuard support in advance of this secure VPN tunnel tech landing with the Linux 5.6 kernel, Intel's ConnMan software is also ready with supporting WireGuard...

Open source fights cancer, Tesla adopts Coreboot, Uber and Lyft release open source machine learning

opensource.com - Sun, 01/19/2020 - 22:00

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look machine learning tools from Uber and Lyft, open source software to fight cancer, saving students money with open textbooks, and more!


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Intel's OSPray 2.0 Ray-Tracing Engine Released

Phoronix - Sun, 01/19/2020 - 20:26
An area where Intel continues striking with rhythm and near perfection is on the open-source software front with their countless speedy and useful open-source innovations that often go unmatched as well as timely hardware support. Out this weekend is their OSPray 2.0 release for this damn impressive ray-tracing engine...

KDE Plasma 5.18 Seeing More Last Minute Work To Make It One Of Their Best Releases Ever

Phoronix - Sun, 01/19/2020 - 20:12
This past week KDE Plasma 5.18 reached beta for this next long-term support release of the modern KDE desktop. While it's approaching the finish line next month, developers have not let up on more improvements in making this one of their best and most polished releases ever...

One open source chat tool to rule them all

opensource.com - Sun, 01/19/2020 - 16:01

Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using.


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What's your favorite Linux terminal trick?

opensource.com - Sun, 01/19/2020 - 16:00
The beginning of a new year is always a great time to evaluate new ways to become more efficient. Many people try out new productivity tools or figure out how to optimize their most mundane processes. One area to assess is the terminal. Especially in the world of open source, there are tons of ways to make life at the terminal more efficient (and fun!) with shortcuts and commands.   
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The AMD Ryzen Thermal / Power Linux Reporting Improvements Working Well - V2 Up For Testing

Phoronix - Sun, 01/19/2020 - 13:04
A few days ago I reported on AMD's "k10temp" Linux kernel driver finally seeing the ability to report CCD temperatures and CPU current/voltage readings as a big improvement to this hardware monitoring driver. The work hasn't yet been queued for inclusion into the mainline kernel, but initial testing is working well and a second revision to the patches has been sent out...

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