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AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" Performance On Ubuntu Linux Six Months After Launch

Phoronix - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 21:00
It's been a half-year already since AMD introduced the EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors that continue performing well and gaining marketshare. While the recently released Ubuntu 21.10 is not a long-term support (LTS) release, for those wondering what this latest Linux distribution means for EPYC 7003 series performance, here is a look at its performance across many benchmarks against that of Ubuntu 21.04 that was released right after the Milan launch and then Ubuntu 20.04 as the current LTS stable series.

AMD "Smart Trace Buffer" Feature Being Wired Up For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 18:15
AMD patches this month have begun preparing support for a new CPU feature called Smart Trace Buffer (STB)...

V3DV Raspberry Pi Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.1

Phoronix - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 17:19
Mesa's V3DV driver for supporting newer Broadcom VideoCore graphics hardware with Vulkan now is advertising v1.1 support. This Vulkan 1.1 support in V3DV is notable as the Raspberry Pi 4 and newer are the most notable beneficiaries of this driver...

7 handy tricks for using the Linux wget command

opensource.com - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 15:01

Wget is a free utility to download files from the web. It gets data from the Internet and saves it to a file or displays it in your terminal. This is literally also what web browsers do, such as Firefox or Chromium, except by default, they render the information in a graphical window and usually require a user to be actively controlling them. The wget utility is designed to be non-interactive, meaning you can script or schedule wget to download files whether you're at your computer or not.


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What you need to know about Kubernetes NetworkPolicy

opensource.com - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 15:00

With a growing number of cloud-native applications going to production through Kubernetes adoption, security is an important checkpoint that you must consider early in the process. When designing a cloud-native application, it is very important to embed a security strategy up front. Failure to do so leads to lingering security issues that can cause project delays and ultimately cost you unnecessary stress and money.


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How to Install LAMP Stack on Debian 11/10/9

Tecmint - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 14:30
The post How to Install LAMP Stack on Debian 11/10/9 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

On (August 14, 2021), the Debian project announced the availability of the new stable version (Debian 11) codenamed Bullseye. With this release, the well-known and widely-used Debian 10 Buster gained old-stable status, which designates

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How to Install Debian 11 (Bullseye) Server Using Net Install

Tecmint - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 13:47
The post How to Install Debian 11 (Bullseye) Server Using Net Install first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this guide, we will walk you through the installation of a Debian 11 (Bullseye) Minimal Server, using the netinstall CD ISO image. This installation you will carry out is appropriate for building a

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Raspberry Pi Sees Their First Price Increase Due To Supply Chain issues

Phoronix - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 13:00
The ongoing supply chain issues across the semiconductor industry (and more broadly) are now impacting the Raspberry Pi operations for end-users/customers when it comes to pricing...

Ruby Lands "YJIT" As A Speedy, In-Process JIT Compiler

Phoronix - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 12:00
The Ruby programming language implementation has merged YJIT, it's new just-in-time (JIT) compiler...

CUDA-Python Reaches "GA" With NVIDIA CUDA 11.5 Release, __int128 Preview

Phoronix - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 07:00
NVIDIA has made available CUDA 11.5 today as the latest version of their popular but proprietary compute stack/platform. Notable with CUDA 11.5 is that CUDA-Python has reached general availability status...

GIMP 2.99.8 Released As Another Step Toward The Long Overdue GIMP 3.0

Phoronix - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 03:06
GIMP 3.0 as the GTK3 port of this open-source Adobe Photoshop alternative has been talked about for nearly a decade now and the work remains ongoing. However, out today is GIMP 2.99.8 as the newest development snapshot...

Intel Makes ControlFlag Open-Source For Helping To Detect Bugs In Code

Phoronix - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 02:29
Last year Intel announced ControlFlag as a machine learning tool for helping to uncover bugs within code. ControlFlag promised impressive results after being trained on more than one billion lines of code and at the end of 2020 was already being used internally on Intel's code-bases from firmware to software applications. We hadn't heard anything more about ControlFlag this year... Until today. Intel has now made ControlFlag open-source for helping to autonomously detect more programming bugs...

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