Open-source News

Intel Survey Finds Maintainer Burnout & Documentation Top Open-Source Challenges

Phoronix - Wed, 02/21/2024 - 03:35
At the end of last year Intel hosted a survey of open-source developers to collect their feeback on various open-source software issues. Intel’s 2023 Open Source Community Survey is all wrapped up, the data tallied up, and the results emailed out today to participants...

Bcachefs Receives Funding By NLNet With NGI Zero Grant

Phoronix - Wed, 02/21/2024 - 02:23
The Bcachefs file-system that was mainlined to the Linux kernel last year has received a grant from the NLNet Foundation...

NVIDIA GH200 72 Core Grace CPU Performance vs. AMD Ryzen Threadripper Workstations

Phoronix - Tue, 02/20/2024 - 23:55
Earlier this month I posted some initial CPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper up against AMD EPYC Zen 4 and Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids processors. That was a very interesting battle and showed the interesting capabilities of the 72 Arm Neoverse-V2 cores paired with HBM3 memory. With this GPTshop.ai GH200 system actually being in workstation form, I also ran some additional benchmarks looking at the CPU capabilities of the GH200 compared to AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series workstations.

Red Hat Changing How They Handle Their Minor Release Betas

Phoronix - Tue, 02/20/2024 - 23:24
Red Hat announced today some changes to how they handle their beta releases for minor updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux...

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