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Ubuntu Generic vs. Low-Latency Linux Kernel Benchmarks For HPC & Desktop

Phoronix - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 22:35

With Ubuntu looking at applying their low-latency optimizations to their generic kernel builds in order to eliminate maintaining their existing "lowlatency" kernel option, I decided to run some fresh benchmarks looking at the performance impact of their low-latency kernel against their "generic" default kernel used on Ubuntu Linux systems...

Ubuntu Generic vs. Low-Latency Linux Kernel Benchmarks For HPC & Desktop - Phoronix

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New State of eBPF Report Examines eBPF's Impact on Software Application Development - Yahoo Finance

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New State of eBPF Report Examines eBPF's Impact on Software Application Development Yahoo Finance

How to Generate an SSH Key on Linux - MUO - MakeUseOf

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How to Generate an SSH Key on Linux MUO - MakeUseOf

GNOME Project Handbook Launches To Help New Contributors

Phoronix - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 21:48

The GNOME project has announced the GNOME Project Handbook as a new resource for helping new developers/contributors get involved with this open-source desktop environment...

How to Be More Productive in Linux With KDE Activities - How-To Geek

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How to Be More Productive in Linux With KDE Activities How-To Geek

Linux's x86_energy_perf_policy Utility Being Extended To AMD CPUs - Phoronix

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Linux's x86_energy_perf_policy Utility Being Extended To AMD CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 19:55

For AMD Zen 2 and newer systems making use of the modern AMD P-State driver on Linux for CPU frequency scaling, ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) interface is being used. For managing the ACPI CPPC energy performance preference (EPP), Intel's x86_energy_perf_policy utility is now being extended to AMD processors...

ChipStar 1.1 Released For Compiling & Running HIP/CUDA On SPIR-V

Phoronix - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 19:38

ChipStar 1.1 was released this past week as one of the open-source projects to help in porting HIP and CUDA applications to support the industry-standard SPIR-V. ChipStar acts to get HIP/CUDA codes working on SPIR-V with OpenCL or Intel's oneAPI Level Zero...

Radeon R300 Open-Source Driver Continues Seeing New Improvements In 2024

Phoronix - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 19:23

As I wrote about at the start of January, the open-source ATI Radeon R300 Linux graphics driver continues seeing new improvements even all these years later thanks to the open-source community. This wasn't some one-off work either in 2024 for this R300 to R500 GPU OpenGL driver but more work has since landed...