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16 Best Microsoft Teams Alternatives For Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 12/20/2022 - 13:25
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Brief: In this guide, we explore the best Microsoft Teams alternatives for Linux that you can use to streamline your workflows and collaborate with your friends and colleagues. Microsoft Teams is one of the

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Arch Linux Powered EndeavourOS "Cassini" Brings Desktop & Arm Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 12/20/2022 - 07:16
EndeavourOS continues to prove itself as one of the easiest-to-use, quick-to-install Arch Linux powered operating systems out there. Out today is the EndeavourOS "Cassini" update with more desktop enhancements as well as a number of Arm hardware support improvements...

Updated Zstd Implementation Merged For Linux 6.2

Phoronix - Tue, 12/20/2022 - 03:47
It finally happened! An updated Zstd kernel implementation based on Zstd v1.5 upstream has been merged for the in-development Linux 6.2 to provide better performance and reliability for Zstd compression/decompression use-cases from compressed firmware to transparent file-system compression...

Linux 6.2 "char/misc" Changes Land With Continued Intel Gaudi2 Enablement

Phoronix - Tue, 12/20/2022 - 03:20
The "char/misc" changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.2 as the random catch-all area of the kernel for drivers not fitting well in other subsystem areas. Notably with this update for Linux 6.2 is continued work on enabling the Intel-owned Habana Labs Gaudi2 AI accelerator...

AMD 4th Gen EPYC 9654 "Genoa" AVX-512 Performance Analysis

Phoronix - Mon, 12/19/2022 - 23:00
With the great AMD 4th Gen EPYC Linux performance showing significant generational uplift and dominating against the current Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake" competition, it's a combination of the twelve channels of DDR5 system memory support, up to 96 cores per socket, introduction of AVX-512, and other Zen 4 micro-architectural improvements. As follow-up testing articles to all of the Genoa data delivered thus far, over the weeks ahead I have additional benchmark results to share looking more closely at these different areas of improvement for AMD 4th Gen EPYC. In today's article is a look at the EPYC 9654 2P performance with AVX-512 on/off while also looking at the CPU power consumption impact and the affect on CPU clock frequencies and thermals.

Vulkan Video 1.0 Extensions Published As Part Of Vulkan 1.3.238

Phoronix - Mon, 12/19/2022 - 21:22
In early 2021 the Vulkan Video extensions were published in beta/provisional form as a new industry-standard video encode/decode API with the context of Vulkan. As a nice Christmas gift this week from The Khronos Group, the extensions have been finalized as Vulkan Video 1.0 and are now deemed ready for production use...

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