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Mesa's Virgl Code Lands Optimization For Lowering Memory Use

Phoronix - Thu, 12/09/2021 - 18:24
It is not too often getting to talk about performance optimizations for Mesa's Virgl code that along with in conjunction with related "Virgil" components allows for hardware-accelerated 3D/OpenGL running within virtual machines. Hitting Mesa 22.0 this week though is some Virgl code improvements for allowing lower memory use within virtual machines...

Intel's oneDNN Ported To RISC-V, More Sapphire Rapids Prep

Phoronix - Thu, 12/09/2021 - 18:05
Intel's oneDNN Deep Neural Network Library that is part of their oneAPI toolkit is out with version 2.5 and brings RISC-V CPU support among other updates...

20 Linux YUM (Yellowdog Updater, Modified) Commands for Package Management

Tecmint - Thu, 12/09/2021 - 16:03
The post 20 Linux YUM (Yellowdog Updater, Modified) Commands for Package Management first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this article, we will learn how to install, update, remove, find packages, manage packages and repositories on Linux systems using YUM (Yellowdog Updater Modified) tool developed by RedHat. The example commands shown in

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Make music on Linux with Ardour

opensource.com - Thu, 12/09/2021 - 16:01

If ever you've been curious about making music, you'll be pleased to know that the open source digital audio workstation Ardour makes it easy and fun, regardless of your level of experience. Ardour is one of those unique applications that manages to span beginner-level hobbyists all the way to production-critical professionals and serves both equally well. Part of what makes it great is its flexibility in how you can accomplish any given task and how most common tasks have multiple levels of possible depth.


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Transitioning Red Hat's EMEA leadership team

Red Hat News - Thu, 12/09/2021 - 13:00

Today, we are sharing that Werner Knoblich, Red Hat’s senior vice president and general manager for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region has decided to retire from Red Hat at the end of 2021. IT industry leader and Red Hatter Hans Roth, who is currently senior vice president and general manager of Global Services and Technical Enablement, will succeed him in the role beginning in January.

How to Install Zend OPcache in Debian and Ubuntu

Tecmint - Thu, 12/09/2021 - 12:00
The post How to Install Zend OPcache in Debian and Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

This article was earlier written for APC (Alternative PHP Cache), but APC is deprecated and no longer working with PHP 5.4 onwards, now you should use OPcache for better and faster performance as explained

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Intel, Arm & Khronos Feel Ready to Land SPIR-V Backend Within LLVM

Phoronix - Thu, 12/09/2021 - 08:05
Engineers from Intel and Arm in cooperation with The Khronos Group feel ready now to begin landing their SPIR-V back-end within the upstream LLVM source tree! This SPIR-V back-end for LLVM would ultimately allow LLVM front-ends for different languages to more easily target this industry-standard shader representation so that it could be ingested by Vulkan / OpenCL drivers...

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