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Minicomputers and The Soul of a New Machine

opensource.com - Sun, 02/16/2020 - 16:00

The Command Line Heroes podcast is back, and this season it covers the machines that run all the programming languages I covered last season. As the podcast staff puts it:


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Apple Firmware Update For Magic Keyboards Decides To Change The Fn Key

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2020 - 14:39
Linux has supported the Apple Magic Keyboards since 2018 handling the Bluetooth connectivity and also needing some special handling for the numeric keypad. While that normally would be the end of the story, recent firmware updates to the Apple Magic Keyboard have caused problems...

Chrome 81 In Beta With Web NFC, Modern Form Controls

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2020 - 13:03
Following last week's release of Chrome 80, Google this week promoted Chrome 81 into their beta channel...

DragonFlyBSD 5.8-RC1 Is Ready With Many Changes From DSynth To Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2020 - 10:06
Not only did NetBSD 9.0 make its debut today but DragonFlyBSD 5.8 was branched and its first release candidate made while DragonFlyBSD 5.9 is the version now open on Git master...

Linux 5.7 To See USB Fast Charge Support For Apple iOS Devices

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2020 - 08:35
The Linux 5.7 kernel that will be out in the late spring / early summer is poised to see support for USB fast charging support for Apple iOS devices...

Reiser5 Updates For Linux 5.5 Along With Reiser4

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2020 - 07:21
The out-of-tree Reiser4 and Reiser5 (Reiser4 v5) patches have been updated against the recently stabilized Linux 5.5 kernel...

C++20 Being Wrapped Up, C++23 In Planning

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2020 - 04:17
An ISO C++ Committee meeting just wrapped up in Prague and it was voted to send the draft international standard for C++ out for final approval and publication...

NetBSD 9.0 Debuts As The "Best NetBSD Release Ever"

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2020 - 00:37
NetBSD 9.0 is out today as for what the project is hoping as the "best NetBSD release ever" at least until NetBSD 10 down the road...

Fwupd 1.3.8 Brings More Improvements For Firmware Updating On Linux Systems

Phoronix - Sat, 02/15/2020 - 22:32
Red Hat's Richard Hughes has released Fwupd 1.3.8 as the latest version of this Linux utility for performing firmware updates of various system components...

The OpenPOWER ISA EULA Draft Published - Generous For Libre Hardware

Phoronix - Sat, 02/15/2020 - 20:44
Last summer it was announced that IBM's POWER ISA would be open-source and the OpenPOWER Foundation joining the Linux Foundation. Finally we're getting a look at how the end-user license agreement (EULA) is looking for those wishing to make use of the POWER CPU instruction set architecture...

Intel Compute Runtime 20.06.15619 Enables E2E Compression

Phoronix - Sat, 02/15/2020 - 20:30
Version 20.06.15619 of the open-source Intel Compute Runtime was released on Friday as powering the company's modern Linux graphics hardware compute stack...

RISC OS Seeing SDL2 Support Brought Up

Phoronix - Sat, 02/15/2020 - 19:51
For those tantilized by the prospects of gaming on RISC OS, SDL2 has been seeing early mainline work on supporting this long-standing operating system...

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