GhostBSD 20.03 Is Out As The Latest Monthly Update To This Desktop BSD

If you are looking for a new desktop-friendly BSD with TrueOS being phased out, GhostBSD 20.03 is out as the promising desktop-focused OS based on FreeBSD and using the MATE desktop environment as a decent out-of-the-box experience...


QEMU 5.0-rc1 Released For Linux Virtualization With The Stable Update Coming This Month

QEMU 5.0-rc1 was released on Tuesday as the latest development release in the path to QEMU 5.0.0 expected to be achieved later this month...


The Linux 5.7 Scheduler Changes Bring Prominent Additions For Intel & Arm CPUs

Ingo Molnar on Monday sent in the scheduler updates for the Linux 5.7 kernel that saw its merge window open at the start of this week. For the Linux 5.7 cycle are a number of prominent scheduler additions...


Apple Using Rust, exFAT, Ryzen Laptops, Ubuntu 20.04 Advances + Other Hits From March

During the month of March on Phoronix were 277 original news articles written by your's truly along with another 20 featured benchmark articles / Linux hardware reviews. Here is a look back at what is exciting Linux/open-source enthusiasts with so many hardware and software happenings...


Open Source LLM

Oracle Ships Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 - Based On Linux 5.4 + DTrace Over BPF, Etc

Oracle has announced their newest major release of their "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel" that they continue spinning as an option for users of Oracle Linux and being the default within the Oracle Cloud...


Linux 5.7 Media Updates Add H.264 / H.265 / VP9 Decode To The Meson Driver

The media subsystem updates have landed for the Linux 5.7 kernel merge window...


Intel

Linux 5.7 For 64-bit ARM Brings In-Kernel Pointer Authentication, Activity Monitors

The 64-bit ARM architecture code will support several new features with the in-development Linux 5.7 kernel...


Intel

Linux Mint 20 Doing Away With 32-Bit Support

Linux Mint is joining the ranks of most other major desktop Linux distributions in abandoning their 32-bit support...


Open Source LLM

LLVM Clang 10.0 Compiler Performance On Intel + AMD CPUs Under Linux

With last week's release of LLVM/Clang 10.0, here are our first benchmarks looking at the stable release of the Clang 10.0 C/C++ compiler compared to its previous (v9.0.1) release on various Intel and AMD processors under Ubuntu Linux.


Intel

Linux 5.7 Power Management Includes Fixes, Tiny Power Button Driver

Intel's Rafael Wysocki who oversees the kernel's power management area has sent in his relevant pull requests for the Linux 5.7 kernel merge window...