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Fedora QA No Longer Needs To Test Physical CD/DVD Media As Part Of Their Formal Release Process

Phoronix - Tue, 01/07/2020 - 00:55
This morning's Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) meeting approved more changes for this spring's release of Fedora 32...

With Python 2 EOL'ed, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Moves Along With Its Python 2 Removal

Phoronix - Mon, 01/06/2020 - 23:38
With Python 2 having reached end-of-life at the start of 2020, Ubuntu and Debian developers continue their work on removing Python 2 at least from the base OS. Work continues on transitioning packages to Python 3 or otherwise ultimately dropping unmaintained packages...

Systemd "Path Images" Feature Allows Mounting Images At Arbitrary Paths

Phoronix - Mon, 01/06/2020 - 22:39
A new work-in-progress feature for systemd is "PathImages" though there is a suggestion this option be renamed to "MountPaths", but in any case is about allowing arbitrary images / block devices to be mounted at any path by systemd...

Linux 5.6 Is Going To Be A Prominent Kernel With Features From USB4 To WireGuard

Phoronix - Mon, 01/06/2020 - 20:54
While there still is several weeks to go until the Linux 5.5 kernel reaches stable and that marking the start of the Linux 5.6 merge window, already from the work we've been tracking in the various "next" branches, this first full kernel cycle of 2020 is going to be a big one...

NVIDIA Sent Out Some Fresh Nouveau Patches Just Before Christmas

Phoronix - Mon, 01/06/2020 - 19:56
Shortly before Christmas were a couple open-source Nouveau driver patches volleyed by NVIDIA. Some of that work is now queuing in the Nouveau DRM tree ahead of the Linux 5.6 merge window...

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