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Many More AMD Ryzen 5000 Series "Zen 3" Linux Benchmarks

Phoronix - Fri, 11/13/2020 - 22:50
Over the past week we have published our Linux performance reviews of the Ryzen 5 5600X, Ryzen 7 5800X, and Ryzen 9 5900X + 5950X "Zen 3" processors. For as much data that has been available in those reviews, here is even more data accumulating thanks to the open-source Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org. Thousands of data points are building up for these very exciting AMD Zen 3 desktop processors...

Oracle Linux 8 U3 Released With Better NVDIMM Support, Latest RHEL8 Work

Phoronix - Fri, 11/13/2020 - 22:06
Oracle has released Oracle Linux 8 Update 3 as the newest version of their RHEL8-based operating system...

Linux VirtIO Memory Prepares For "Big Block Mode"

Phoronix - Fri, 11/13/2020 - 19:04
Red Hat engineers are working on a "big block mode" for the VirtIO-MEM code and could land for the Linux 5.11 cycle...

Mesa 21.0 RadeonSI Merges Buffer Modifier Support

Phoronix - Fri, 11/13/2020 - 18:45
The long-standing patches by Bas Nieuwenhuizen on implementing DMA-BUF modifier support for the RadeonSI code within Mesa has now been merged for next quarter's Mesa 21.0 feature release...

New i10 I/O Scheduler Proposed For Linux To Optimize Batching

Phoronix - Fri, 11/13/2020 - 16:14
A new Linux I/O scheduler has been proposed that is optimized for batching such as for MMC and TCP-based/remote storage...

How to create trust in artificial intelligence using open source

opensource.com - Fri, 11/13/2020 - 16:01

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used more frequently in our daily lives, with systems such as Siri and Alexa becoming commonplace in many households. Many households themselves are "smart," powered by devices that can control your lights, heating and air, and even the music playing. And those music players are powered by AI that recommends songs and artists you may like.


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3 ways managers build team culture around open source

opensource.com - Fri, 11/13/2020 - 16:00

Whether you are a senior leader or an individual contributor, you make decisions based on your personal, peers', and colleagues' experiences and feedback. If the people around you are evolving, you will grow with them, as will the organization you support. If the backgrounds and knowledge of the people around you are diverse and changing, you and your team will benefit.


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How to Work with Date and Time in Bash Using date Command

Tecmint - Fri, 11/13/2020 - 13:20

Date command is an external bash program that allows to set or display system date and time. It also provides several formatting options. Date command is installed in all Linux distros by default. $

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