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GCC Sees More Progress On Ability To Parallelize The Compilation Of Large Source Files

Phoronix - Thu, 07/30/2020 - 06:17
While GCC with GNU Make and other build systems can scale nicely in compiling many files concurrently, there has been an ongoing GCC effort to be able to parallelize more of the GNU Compiler Collection work when compiling large source files...

BootHole Blows Hole In GRUB2 Bootloader Security, Including UEFI SecureBoot

Phoronix - Thu, 07/30/2020 - 03:00
A major vulnerability in the GRUB2 boot-loader has been made public today that compromises its UEFI SecureBoot capabilities...

Samsung 870 QVO SSD Performance On Ubuntu Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 23:30
The Samsung 870 QVO solid-state drives announced at the end of June have begun appearing at Internet retailers. The Samsung 870 QVO is the company's latest QLC NAND solid-state drive offering 1TB of storage for a little more than $120 USD all the way up to 4TB for $500 and an 8TB variant for $900. For those curious about the EXT4 file-system Linux performance out of the Samsung 870 QVO, here are some benchmarks.

Nano 5.0 Released As A Big Feature Update To This Easy-To-Use Terminal Text Editor

Phoronix - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 22:20
The popular GNU Nano terminal text editor has reached version 5.0...

Apache Software Foundation Estimates Its Code Value Increased ~$600M For FY2020

Phoronix - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 21:55
For fiscal year 2019 the Apache Software Foundation valued their codebase at around $20 billion USD. The open-source organization has now published their annual report for fiscal year 2020...

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