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Intel MKL-DNN/DNNL 1.2 Released With Performance Improvements For Deep Learning On CPUs

Sat, 02/01/2020 - 15:37
Intel on Friday released Deep Neural Network Library (DNNL) version 1.2, formerly known as MKL-DNN. With this release comes both new features and better performance...

/dev/random Is More Like /dev/urandom With Linux 5.6

Sat, 02/01/2020 - 14:18
The random changes have been sent in for Linux 5.6 that yield /dev/random behavioral changes and a new random flag...

Ingenic X1000 SoC Being Supported By The Linux 5.6 Kernel

Sat, 02/01/2020 - 13:00
Adding to the Linux 5.6 excitement is the hardware enablement of the MIPS-based Ingenic X1000 SoC...

University of Illinois Releases HPVM As Heterogeneous Parallel Systems Compiler

Sat, 02/01/2020 - 08:11
University of Illinois and associated developers have released HPVM 0.5, their LLVM-based compiler infrastructure for Heterogeneous Parallel Systems with CPU execution and OpenCL-based NVIDIA GPU support...

Intel MPX Support Is Dead With Linux 5.6

Sat, 02/01/2020 - 07:36
Following on from last week's story that it was looking like Linux 5.6 would drop Intel MPX support, that has now taken place...

GNU C Library 2.31 Nearing With Experimental C2X Support, Time Changes

Sat, 02/01/2020 - 05:39
GNU C Library 2.31 (Glibc 2.31) should be releasing in the days ahead and is now under a hard freeze for this next feature release to this important libc implementation...

Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On A $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop

Sat, 02/01/2020 - 03:32
When carrying out our Windows vs. Linux benchmarks we normally are doing so on interesting high-end hardware but for today's benchmarking is a look at how a $199 USD laptop powered by an AMD Ryzen 3 3200U processor compares between Windows 10 as it's shipped on the laptop against the forthcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux distribution.

Intel Should Now Have Gen7 Graphics Mitigated Without The Hefty Performance Hit

Sat, 02/01/2020 - 00:54
Earlier this month when Intel disclosed CVE-2019-14615 as a security vulnerability affecting their graphics architecture, older Gen7 graphics saw a huge hit to their performance with the initial patches for addressing this vulnerability on Ivy Bridge and Haswell processors. Fortunately, a new mitigation patch series was sent out this week where they believe the performance costs are now avoided...

Linux Mint Debian 4 Coming - Rebased Against Debian 10, Adds "Boot With NVIDIA" Option

Fri, 01/31/2020 - 23:14
In addition to Linux Mint 20 coming this year that will be based off Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the Linux Mint crew is preparing LMDE 4 as their re-base of the Debian based variant...

Raspberry Pi Foundation Gets Back To Working On A Vulkan Driver - New Effort By Igalia

Fri, 01/31/2020 - 22:28
With the V3D Gallium3D driver hitting OpenGL ES 3.1 compliance, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and their partners have turned to focusing on getting their Vulkan driver off the ground for Raspberry Pi 4 and future SBCs...

NVIDIA Retiring Their Pre-Fermi "340 Series" Legacy Linux Graphics Driver

Fri, 01/31/2020 - 20:30
NVIDIA has sent out word that they no longer plan to issue anymore driver updates for their 340 series Linux legacy branch...

UBports' Unity 8 Has Working Wayland Support

Fri, 01/31/2020 - 20:14
Lead UBports developer Marius Gripsgard has shared some exciting news: their Unity 8 code is now riding happily on Wayland...

KVM Virtualization Adds Protections For Spectre-V1/L1TF Combination Attack

Fri, 01/31/2020 - 18:05
Following the Xen hypervisor in mitigating against a possible Spectre Variant One and L1 Terminal Fault combination attack, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) has added its own protections with the Linux 5.6 kernel on top of all the other mitigations they've had to endure as a result of CPU vulnerabilities over the past two years...

CERN Replacing Facebook Workplace With A Set Of Open-Source Software Alternatives

Fri, 01/31/2020 - 16:53
We previously covered how CERN has moved away from Microsoft products over licensing fees and instead has begun employing various open-source alternatives. Now this European Organization for Nuclear Research is moving away from Facebook Workplace to instead make use of more open-source software packages...

F2FS Experimental Compression Is Ready For Extending Flash Storage Life

Fri, 01/31/2020 - 14:40
The F2FS file-system compression functionality is the main feature addition for this flash-optimized file-system coming with the Linux 5.6 kernel. This native LZO/LZ4 compression support is geared for optimizing the lifespan of SSDs/flash memory thanks to reducing disk writes...

Char/Misc Updates For Linux 5.6 Bring New Qualcomm Drivers, Intel Code Updates

Fri, 01/31/2020 - 13:09
While not as exciting as the USB4 support and staging code lightening for these areas managed by Linux's second in command Greg Kroah-Hartman, he also sent out the char/misc updates this week with other hardware support improvements...

Free Software Foundation Endorses First Product Of 2020: A $59~79 USD 802.11n WiFi Card

Fri, 01/31/2020 - 09:14
We've seen a lot of odd products pick up the Free Software Foundation's "Respect Your Freedom" endorsement like a USB microphone, various re-branded motherboards, and even last year certified a USB to parallel printer cable. The latest product they are endorsing -- and their first endorsement of 2020 -- is a USD 802.11 a/b/g/n PCIe half-mini card starting out at $59 USD but going up to $79 for this outdated wireless adapter...

Mesa 20.0-rc1 Released With Intel Gallium3D Default, OpenGL 4.6 for RadeonSI, Vulkan 1.2

Fri, 01/31/2020 - 07:17
Mesa 20.0 feature development is over with the code now being branched from Git master and the first of several release candidates issued...

Valve's ACO Helps Put New Life Into Radeon GCN 1.0 GPUs With ~9% Better Linux Gaming Performance

Fri, 01/31/2020 - 06:06
Among many other Valve ACO back-end improvements for Mesa 20.0, one of the notable additions is this AMDGPU LLVM alternative now working for Radeon "Southern Islands" / GCN 1.0 graphics cards. With this, these original AMD GCN graphics cards may have some extra life out of Linux gaming boxes thanks to slightly higher performance some eight years after these graphics cards first launched in the Radeon HD 7000 series.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Adds WireGuard Support

Fri, 01/31/2020 - 04:13
While WireGuard was merged into Linux 5.6, the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release is currently tracking Linux 5.4 and for the April release is likely to be shipping with Linux 5.5 as the 5.6 release will be cutting it too close. But Ubuntu 20.04's kernel has now back-ported WireGuard...

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