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5 Ways to Empty or Delete a Large File Content in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 07/26/2023 - 13:31
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Occasionally, while dealing with files in a Linux terminal, you may want to clear the content of a file without necessarily opening it using any

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AMD Linux Graphics No Longer Unusable For Blender Developers: 251 To 9 Seconds Speed-Up

Phoronix - Wed, 07/26/2023 - 02:45
Two weeks ago a bug report was opened for Mesa that when using Radeon RX 7900 XT or Radeon Pro WX 9100 graphics, Blender's Eevee shader node trees are unusably slow. A fix has now been merged in reducing that shader compilation time from around 251 seconds to now getting done in just about 9 seconds...

Intel Scores Another Nice Arc Graphics Boost On Linux For Summer 2023

Phoronix - Tue, 07/25/2023 - 23:19
Just days after covering a recent ~10% speed-up for the Intel Arc Graphics on Linux, another optimization has landed in Mesa 23.3-devel for further enhancing Intel's latest graphics wares with their open-source driver stack.

Per-Policy CPU Performance Boosting Proposed For Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 07/25/2023 - 20:52
For processors supporting CPU performance boosting with higher performance states available beyond the base states, Linux allows toggling the boosting on a per-CPU basis. However, a new patch proposed this week would allow per-policy performance boosting where capable...

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