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Linux 5.8 Brings Modernization Work To Procfs

Phoronix - Sun, 06/07/2020 - 23:40
Adding to the Linux 5.8 changes is the landing of modernization work for the proc special-purpose file-system...

Linux 5.7.1 Releases As A Benign First Point Release

Phoronix - Sun, 06/07/2020 - 22:05
One week after the release of the big Linux 5.7 kernel release with its many new features, the first point release is now available and overall it's quite light for being the first point release in a new series...

RISC-V For Linux 5.8 Finishes Bringing Up The Kendryte K210, Adds KGDB Support

Phoronix - Sun, 06/07/2020 - 20:43
The RISC-V architecture code in the Linux kernel continues seeing more improvements for running on real hardware and seeing other capabilities introduced...

Coreboot Ported To A Newer Intel Server Board From Supermicro

Phoronix - Sun, 06/07/2020 - 18:32
The German-based 9elements Cyber Security has ported Coreboot to another newer Intel server motherboard...

Performing Automated Server Installs With Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Phoronix - Sun, 06/07/2020 - 18:19
As part of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS exclusively using its newer "Subiquity" server installer is a new means of supporting automated installations of the operating system in a server environment...

New Arm SoCs Supported By Linux 5.8, Restructuring To Fit Android Kernel Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 06/07/2020 - 15:42
Following last week's 64-bit ARM architecture updates for Linux 5.8, the Arm SoC/platform changes have now been submitted...

5 ways to boost your Kubernetes knowledge

opensource.com - Sun, 06/07/2020 - 15:02

When the cloud was still in its formative years, developers discovered that it was convenient to write applications in small, atomic, minimal Linux images that shared resources with the server they ran on. Technically based on kernel namespaces, these small environment definitions came to be called containers. As containers proliferated, sysadmins quickly realized it was becoming essential to develop a tool that could help them manage not only containers but also the virtualized infrastructure underneath.


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Is your team a "glue team?"

opensource.com - Sun, 06/07/2020 - 15:00

In his book How to Win, New York Times senior economic correspondent Neil Irwin championed the role of "glue people" in bringing about better alignment, collaboration, and organizational maturity.


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Gallium3D's Arm Bifrost Now Handling Most Of OpenGL ES 2.0, Runs GNOME Wayland

Phoronix - Sun, 06/07/2020 - 12:01
It was just back in late April that the Panfrost Gallium3D driver began rendering with Arm Mali "Bifrost" graphics processors while now it has most of OpenGL ES 2.0 working, some of the desktop OpenGL 2.1 functionality, and is capable of running software like GNOME on Wayland...

PCI Changes For Linux 5.8 Bring Power Savings, AMD Workarounds/Whitelisting

Phoronix - Sun, 06/07/2020 - 06:00
Linux 5.8 has merged all of the PCI/PCIe subsystem updates and there are a number of notable changes...

Fedora 33 Looking To Use Swap On zRAM By Default With systemd's zram-generator

Phoronix - Sat, 06/06/2020 - 20:53
Some Fedora spins have already made use of swap on zRAM for serving as a compressed RAM drive while with Fedora Workstation 33 they are looking to make use of zRAM by default...

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