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Artwork Help Is Needed For Debian 11 "Bullseye"

Phoronix - Wed, 08/12/2020 - 12:00
If you are more of an artistic type than programmer, there still is plenty of valuable assistance that can be provided to free software projects... The latest call for help is that of the Debian project in looking for the Debian 11 "Bullseye" desktop artwork...

Go 1.15 Released With Much Improved Linker, New CPU Mitigations

Phoronix - Wed, 08/12/2020 - 06:55
Go 1.15 is out as a rather significant update to this popular, modern programming language...

Fedora's FESCo Approves Using DXVK As Their Default Wine Direct3D Back-End

Phoronix - Wed, 08/12/2020 - 05:56
Last month was the proposal for Fedora to make DXVK their default back-end for Direct3D 9/10/11 usage with their packaged Wine build rather than WineD3D. That's now been approved for Fedora 33!..

NUVIA Published New Details On Their Phoenix CPU, Talks Up Big Performance/Perf-Per-Watt

Phoronix - Wed, 08/12/2020 - 03:22
Since leaving stealth last year and hiring some prominent Linux/open-source veterans to complement their ARM processor design experts, we have been quite eager to hear more about this latest start-up aiming to deliver compelling ARM server products. Today they shared some early details on their initial "Phoenix" processor that is coming within their "Orion" SoC...

Intel Publishes 18 New Security Advisories For 52 Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Wed, 08/12/2020 - 02:16
It is Intel's August 2020 disclosure day with 18 new advisories being issued for covering 52 vulnerabilities...

Mozilla Laying Off Around A Quarter Of Their Employees

Phoronix - Wed, 08/12/2020 - 00:08
Mozilla today announced they are laying off around 250 of their employees with Mozilla Corporation and closing up their Taipei, Taiwan operations...

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