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Changing the world with open source: GNOME president shares her story

opensource.com - Tue, 06/16/2020 - 15:00

Growing up in Silicon Valley, Nuritzi Sanchez saw the powerful impact software can make on the world. Yet, unlike many others who were also steeped in the tech industry, her journey has taken her into the world of open source, where she is contributing to that impact.


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Linux Lands And Then Reverts Usage Of Flexible Array Members

Phoronix - Tue, 06/16/2020 - 14:37
As a change past the Linux 5.8 merge window now that the flurry of code activity has settled down was changing the use of zero-length arrays in structs with flexible array members. Linus Torvalds did pull the change into Linux 5.8 but then decided shortly afterwards to drop the change at least for the time being...

Linux Mint 20 Beta is Now Available to Download

Tecmint - Tue, 06/16/2020 - 13:59
Linux Mint continues to grow in popularity and maintain its stellar reputation as one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions. It comes highly recommended for beginners thanks to its easy-to-use user interface and tons...

Fedora Developers Are Looking At Better Managing Retired Packages

Phoronix - Tue, 06/16/2020 - 12:29
A change proposal for Fedora 33 would introduce the concept of "fedora-retired-packages" for removing retired packages when upgrading Fedora...

Radeon RADV Driver Merge Request Opened To Use ACO By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 06/16/2020 - 06:49
A merge request opened at the end of last week would now have the Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver default to using the Valve-backed ACO shader compiler in place of the default LLVM AMDGPU back-end...

CentOS 8 Rebased Against RHEL 8.2

Phoronix - Tue, 06/16/2020 - 03:48
The CentOS crew maintaining this community enterprise Linux operating system rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux have announced their RHEL 8.2-based release...

Running Linux 5.8-rc1 Benchmarks On The Intel Core i9 10900K + Radeon RX 5700 XT

Phoronix - Tue, 06/16/2020 - 01:42
Since yesterday's big release of Linux 5.8-rc1 I have begun benchmarking this new kernel on various systems. Here are some tests on the first system that was being vetted, the Intel Core i9 10900K Comet Lake with Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics...

Intel Confirms CET Security Support For Tiger Lake

Phoronix - Mon, 06/15/2020 - 21:00
Intel is confirming today that Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (Intel CET) will premiere with upcoming mobile Tiger Lake processors...

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