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RISC-V: Hot Plugging!
RISC-V chips will support replacing RAM sticks without powering off the system — hot plugging functionality arriving in newer flavors of Linux. RISC-V gets a feature that may prove integral to future server and enterprise implementations. According to a report from Phoronix, version 6.11 of the mainline Linux kernel, which seems set to launch soon,…
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CISA to Re-do C/C++ Projects with Rust
So, so many lines of memory-unsafe routines in crucial open source, and unsafe dependencies. The US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has analyzed 172 critical open source projects and found that more than half contain code written in languages like C and C++ that are not naturally memory safe. What’s more, projects written…
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30 Years of Open Source Lessons from FreeDOS
Jim Hall is an open source software developer and advocate since 1993. Jim has authored, contributed to, or maintained dozens of open source projects. He is probably best known for his work on the FreeDOS Project, and for usability testing in open source software. He shares his lessons from all these years of working with…
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Open Source Challenger to VS Code Appears
Open Source ‘Eclipse Theia IDE’ Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code. Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation’s Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft’s similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it shares much tech. The Eclipse Theia IDE, part of the Eclipse Cloud DevTools…
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Can Raspberry Pi Run Linux? What You Need To Know
So you’re on the hunt for a single-board computer (SBC) for your embedded systems or networking projects. In your search, you’ve probably run across dozens of recommendations pointing to the Raspberry Pi, and it’s for good reason. This board may be small at 85 by 56 mm, but it’s pretty mighty and versatile. In fact,…
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Intel’s Software Optimizations for Xeon CPUs
Intel’s Linux Software Optimizations Still Pay Off For Xeon 6700E “Sierra Forest” E-Core CPUs. When testing Intel’s aggressive software Linux optimizations shipped by way of their in-house Clear Linux distribution, I am most often testing it on their high core count Xeon processors with AVX-512… Over the years in dozens of Phoronix articles there have…
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