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Android-x86 8.1-r3 Released

Phoronix - Wed, 10/30/2019 - 22:34
For those interested in running Android on x86 Intel/AMD hardware, the Android-x86 project is still churning along but while Google is onto Android 10, this project is still tracking Android 8 Oreo...

Intel Core i9 9900KS Linux Performance Benchmarks

Phoronix - Wed, 10/30/2019 - 21:00
Today the Intel Core i9 9900KS is shipping at $513 USD for this specially-binned Coffeelake CPU that is capable of achieving a 5.0GHz all-core turbo frequency. The all-core 5.0GHz turbo is great, but it remains an eight-core / sixteen-thread 14nm processor going up against AMD's similarly priced Ryzen 9 3900X. Here are our initial benchmarks of the Core i9 9900KS compared to the Core i9 9900K and Ryzen 9 3900X.

IWD 1.0 Released As Intel's Wireless Daemon For Linux Systems

Phoronix - Wed, 10/30/2019 - 20:44
Intel's IWD wireless daemon for Linux systems that could potentially replace WPA_Supplicant has reached the big 1.0 milestone...

GCC 11 Compiler Could End Up Removing Support For The Motorola m68k, Other Old CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 10/30/2019 - 19:18
Deprecated for the upcoming GCC 10 compiler release and set for removal in GCC 11 one year later is the CC0 representation code that is being used for handle condition codes in GCC back-ends. That in turn means a number of older CPU targets will be removed in GCC 11 should they not receive some development attention to transition them to the modern MODE_CC representation...

GitLab Had Begun Planning To Track Its Users But Quickly Changed Course

Phoronix - Wed, 10/30/2019 - 18:52
While many fled from GitHub to GitLab following Microsoft acquiring the code hosting service, GitLab has come under a bit of fire of its own with plans they had been working on around telemetry support that would begin tracking its users and potentially sharing the data with third-party firms...

Landlock Revved An 11th Time For Unprivileged Yet Powerful Security Sandboxes

Phoronix - Wed, 10/30/2019 - 16:04
We first wrote about the Landlock Linux security module in 2016 with its aspirations for offering powerful security sandboxing abilities. Landlock has seen revisions every few months and this week marks the 11th time the patches have been volleyed for this interesting sandboxing Linux Security Module (LSM)...

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