Rust-Written Redox OS Now Supports GDB Debugging
For helping to debug more issues within the Rust-written Redox operating system, the GNU Debugger (GDB) is beginning to work well on the platform...
Linux To Allow Limiting Tiger Lake SoC PL4 Package Maximum Power Limit
Intel has been preparing "Power Limit4" support for their Linux PowerCap driver that is being rolled out for the forthcoming Tiger Lake SoCs...
Radeon "Southern Islands" Support Continues Improving In AMDGPU Driver - GPU Reset
The AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" graphics processors continue seeing open-source driver improvements on Linux in 2020...
Intel Rolls Out Leadership Changes Following Last Week's 7nm Delay Announcement
Following last week's public disclosure that Intel is running six to twelve months behind on their 7nm production, Intel this evening announced a set of leadership changes to move the company forward...
Purism's Librem 5 "Dogwood" Seeing Improvements In Battery Life
Purism has revealed more details about their improved "Dogwood" batch that will be soon shipping for their Librem 5 GNU/Linux smartphone. The battery life is longer but still short of what is provided by modern day flagship smartphones...
Fedora 33 Making Progress With Their Btrfs-By-Default On The Desktop
A progress report was shared today on the work towards making the Btrfs file-system the default choice for the desktop spins of the upcoming Fedora 33...
Git 2.28 Now Shipping With Feature For Configurable Default/Main Branch Name
Git 2.28 is now officially out this Monday and features continued work on moving off the "master" default branch naming as well as the ongoing work around ultimately transitioning from SHA1 to SHA256 for hashing to prevent possible collisions...
Firefox 79 Is Ready To Ship With Safeguard On "_blank" Links, More Wayland VA-API Work
Firefox 79.0 isn't scheduled to be formally announced until Tuesday but the release binaries have now hit Mozilla's FTP servers...
GCC Benchmarks At Varying Optimization Levels With Core i9 10900K Show An Unexpected Surprise
With the Intel Core i9 10900K "Comet Lake" processor here are some fresh GCC compiler benchmarks when looking at the performance of GCC 8.4 versus 9.3 versus a 10.2 snapshot while testing with optimization flags of -O2, -O3 -march=native, and -O3 -march=native -flto.
Linux Kernel Prepping To Make Use Of Intel's New SERIALIZE Instruction
As outlined a few months ago, Intel's future Sapphire Rapids and Alder Lake processors are set to add a SERIALIZE instruction. That SERIALIZE instruction ensures all flags/register/memory modifications are complete as well as draining all buffered writes to memory before the next instruction is executed. Linux is moving forward with preparing to make use of this new CPU instruction in its function for stopping speculative execution and prefetching of modified code...