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Linux 5.6 Adds TEE For AMD's Secure Processor To Run "Trusted Applications" On Raven APUs

Phoronix - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 20:57
Last month I wrote about AMD working on TEE driver support to load "trusted applications" onto the AMD Secure Processor under Linux. That work is now queued for introduction with Linux 5.6 and wired through for Raven Ridge APUs...

Wine-Staging 5.0-RC3 Fixes Some Active Directory Programs Like Cisco VPN & Honeywell

Phoronix - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 20:15
Based on Wine 5.0-RC3 released yesterday is now Wine-Staging 5.0-RC3 with its 800+ patches on top and it comes with two new additions this week...

MPV 0.31 Video Player Adds Pseudo Client Side Decorations, Wayland Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 19:50
MPV, the open-source cross-platform media player derived from MPlayer/mplayer2 long ago, is out with a new feature release before closing out 2019...

The Zen of Python: Why timing is everything

opensource.com - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 16:01

Python is always evolving. The Python community has an unending appetite for feature requests but also an unending bias toward the status quo. As Python gets more popular, changes to the language affect more people.

The exact timing for when a change happens is often hard, but the Zen of Python offers guidance.


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Most-read open source news stories of 2019

opensource.com - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 16:00

A great deal happened in the world of open source in 2019. Once upon a time, you would have been hard-pressed to find news about Linux, free software, and open source software outside of a small handful of specialist publications. Today, though, news about open source is everywhere; the online edition of Forbes even has its own Linux columnist.


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Coreboot Had An Exciting Decade Thanks To Google's Chromebooks, Efforts Like LinuxBoot

Phoronix - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 15:14
With all but the very first Google Chromebook devices running Coreboot in place of traditional proprietary BIOS, this has been a big win for Coreboot during the 2010s but there has also been notable offshoots like LinuxBoot and Libreboot...

Latte Dock 0.10 Sees First Development Version For Release Next Summer

Phoronix - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 13:06
Latte Dock, the dock designed for KDE Plasma desktops, is working on a v0.10 feature update due out next summer while out this weekend is the first development release...

Debian Developers Decide On Init System Diversity: "Proposal B" Wins

Phoronix - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 08:50
The Debian developer voting over init system diversity options has wrapped up and a decision has been made...

Wine 5.0-rc3 Released With Another 46 Bugs Fixed

Phoronix - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 06:23
Even with the Christmas holiday slowing down the rate of changes for some of the developers, this week's Wine 5.0 release candidate managed to arrive with 46 bug fixes...

2019 Linux Performance: Ubuntu Up ~1%, Fedora Up ~2%, Clear Linux Up ~7%

Phoronix - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 05:41
Last week I posted benchmarks looking at the performance of Intel's Clear Linux over the course of 2019 with roughly 7% better performance across dozens of benchmarks on the same system. But how does that compare to other Linux distributions with the same hardware? Here is a look in showing the performance for both Fedora and Ubuntu at the end of 2018 to the end of 2019.

Intel Continues Prepping ACPI Error Disconnect Recover Support For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 03:16
Since this summer Intel open-source engineers have been working on adding ACPI Error Disconnect Recover (EDR) support to the Linux kernel and this week marks the eleventh revision to the kernel support for this new ACPI feature...

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