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Project Trident Switching From TrueOS/FreeBSD Distribution To Basing On Void Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2019 - 12:00
Project Trident has been one of the lesser known BSD distributions derived from TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD) and making use of the FreeBSD package set. But moving forward the distribution is looking to reinvent itself as a derivative of Void Linux...

Top 10 highlights at Red Hat Summit 2019

Red Hat News - Tue, 10/15/2019 - 12:00

As we careen into Fall, we at Red Hat have had a few months to catch our breath after another fantastic Red Hat Summit. Which means… we're busy planning for next year's Red Hat Summit. As we get everything lined up for next year, let's take a look back at some of the highlights from our time in Boston.

Python 3.8 Released With Assignment Expressions, Runtime Audit Hooks

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2019 - 06:54
Python 3.8.0 is out today as the latest major release for this popular programming language...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Adds Bits For Jasper Lake PCH

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2019 - 06:00
Details are still light on Jasper Lake, but volleyed onto the public mailing list today was the initial support for the Jasper Lake PCH within the open-source Linux graphics driver side...

PyPy 7.2 Released With Full 64-bit AArch64 Support, PyPy 3.6 Beyond Beta

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2019 - 04:11
PyPy 7.2 is out today as a big update for this alternative Python implementation that currently provides interpreters for compatibility with Python 2.7 and Python 3.6...

Debian 11 To Further Deprecate IPTables In Favor Of Nftables Plus Promoting Firewalld

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2019 - 02:23
Debian 10 "Buster" already is making use of IPTables' Netfilter back-end by default in their path to deprecate IPTables while for Debian 11 the deprecation will continue further...

Sony Pushes More AMD Jaguar Optimizations To Upstream LLVM 10 Compiler

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2019 - 01:19
Sony engineers working on the PlayStation compiler toolchain continue upstreaming various improvements to the LLVM source tree for helping the AMD APUs powering their latest game console...

Google USB-C Titan Security Keys Begin Shipping Tomorrow

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2019 - 00:22
Google announced their new USB-C Titan Security Key will begin shipping tomorrow for offering two-factor authentication support with not only Android devices but all the major operating systems as well...

ASRock Rack EPYCD8 Series Make For Great Value AMD EPYC Motherboards With Rome Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/14/2019 - 22:36
For those that have been interested in AMD's EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors for your own server build, more 7002 series supported motherboards have been hitting Internet stores in recent weeks. If you are looking for one of the lower-cost motherboards, ASRock Rack's EPYCD8 motherboards have been refined with 7001/7002 series processor support.

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