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How To Install PIP to Manage Python Packages in Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 08/10/2023 - 12:00
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Pip (recursive acronym for “Pip Installs Packages” or “Pip Installs Python“) is a cross-platform package manager for installing and managing Python packages (which can be

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Intel Begins Drafting AVX10 Plans For The LLVM/Clang Compiler

Phoronix - Thu, 08/10/2023 - 04:30
In addition to Intel posting initial AVX10.1 patches for the GCC compiler, Intel has also begun sorting out their AVX10 plans for the LLVM/Clang compiler stack...

Linux Lands Fix For AMD Zen 1 Bug That Could Leak Data After A Division By Zero

Phoronix - Thu, 08/10/2023 - 02:27
After a rather busy Patch Tuesday with the AMD Inception vulnerability and Intel Downfall going public, the Linux kernel saw a new bug fix merged today for a different issue... It turns out original AMD Zen 1 processors could end up leaking data in certain conditions after a divide by zero occurs...

Initial Benchmarks Of The Intel Downfall Mitigation Performance Impact

Phoronix - Wed, 08/09/2023 - 23:00
With yesterday's disclosure of the Intel Downfall speculative execution vulnerability and the updated CPU microcode and Linux kernel patches I have been very busy testing the performance impact of this mitigation. Here are some initial numbers and workloads I have found to be impacted as a result of this security mitigation for Skylake to Icelake/Tigerlake client and server processors.

Updated AMD Family 19h Microcode Published Following "Inception"

Phoronix - Wed, 08/09/2023 - 21:48
Following yesterday's disclosure of the AMD "Inception" security vulnerability and the Linux kernel patches merged for reporting the mitigation status as well as the kernel-based handling for earlier generation Zen CPUs, the Family 19h microcode mitigations have now been picked up by the linux-firmware.git repository...

AMD P-State Preferred Core Handling Being Enabled For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 08/09/2023 - 18:21
A new set of patches have been posted for the Linux kernel that implement AMD P-State Preferred Core handling for the amd-pstate driver...

KDE Plasma 6 Wayland Session: "It's Been Working Great!"

Phoronix - Wed, 08/09/2023 - 17:51
As a lot of active development continues around the KDE Plasma 6 desktop and the developers eyeing a beta in a few months, it appears work on this Qt6-ported desktop environment is coming together quite nicely...

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