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6 tricks for developing a work from home schedule

opensource.com - Fri, 03/27/2020 - 15:00

When you start working from home, one of the first things you might have noticed is that there almost no outside influences on your schedule.

You probably have meetings—some over team chat and others over video— that you have to attend, but otherwise, there's nothing requiring you to do anything at any specific time. What you find out pretty quickly, though, is that there's an invisible influence that sneaks up on you: deadlines.


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GCC's New Static Analysis Capabilities Are Getting Into Shape For GCC 10

Phoronix - Fri, 03/27/2020 - 13:25
One of many new features in the GCC 10 code compiler releasing in about one month's time is finally having a built-in static analyzer. This static analyzer can be enabled with the -fanalyzer switch and has been maturing nicely for its initial capabilities in the GNU Compiler Collection 10...

PHP 7.4 Lands For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Phoronix - Fri, 03/27/2020 - 12:00
It shouldn't come as a big surprise but PHP 7.4 has now landed in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to replace the existing PHP 7.3 support within the "Focal Fossa" package archive...

Nuvia's Jon Masters Talks Up Their Linux / Open-Source Support Plans

Phoronix - Fri, 03/27/2020 - 06:03
Following the virtual Linaro Tech Days this week, Nuvia's VP of Software, Jon Masters, has begun talking up the Arm server start-up's Linux/open-source support plans...

MIPS Loongson 3 Seeing Support Improvements With Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Fri, 03/27/2020 - 03:31
For those managing to get their hands on a recently released Loongson 3A4000/3B4000 or even older Loongson 3 MIPS64 processors, improving the support is on the way with the upcoming Linux 5.7 kernel...

AMD PassThru DMA Engine Driver Still Pending For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 03/27/2020 - 02:35
In addition to the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub driver that we are hopeful could land in Linux 5.7 albeit not yet queued in the iio-next branch, another AMD driver that has been around for a few months in patch form but yet to be mainlined is the AMD PassThru DMA Engine driver...

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