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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Offers Up Incredible Linux GPU Compute Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 23:00
Yesterday I finally received a GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card from NVIDIA for being able to deliver the first of our Linux benchmarks on the new RTX 30 Ampere series. What is immediately clear is the huge performance uplift for OpenCL and CUDA workloads with the RTX 3080 compared to its predecessors. The raw performance and even performance-per-dollar is staggering out of the GeForce RTX 3080 with the initial tests carried out on Ubuntu Linux. Linux gaming benchmarks will be out in the days ahead but for now is a look at the RTX 3080 compute performance across dozens of benchmarks and going as far back as the GeForce GTX 980 series for comparison.

Mainframes revived, why you should take a break, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 21:40

As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends. Here are some of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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Qt 6.0 Alpha Released

Phoronix - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 20:38
Even with the tumultuous year due to the coronavirus pandemic, The Qt Company is still on track for delivering the Qt 6.0 toolkit release before year's end...

Intel's Patches Discussed For Exposing Hybrid CPU Topology Via Sysfs

Phoronix - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 18:50
Last week open-source developers at Intel began sending out Linux patches for supporting hybrid CPUs particularly ahead of 12th Gen "Alder Lake" coming to market with a mix of Golden Cove and Gracemont cores. Following that article last week, more patches hit the list in exposing the hybrid CPU topology to user-space...

Google Is Adding Support For Metadata Encryption To F2FS

Phoronix - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 18:30
F2FS as the Flash-Friendly File-System has long supported transparent file-system encryption via Linux's FSCRYPT framework but now Google engineers are working on allowing the file-system metadata to also be encrypted...

Intel Adds Vulkan Transform Feedback For Aging Haswell Graphics

Phoronix - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 15:36
Due to DXVK recently beginning to require Vulkan Transform Feedback (VK_EXT_transform_feedback) for this Direct3D translation layer popular with Linux gamers, Intel open-source developers have gone back and now implemented transform feedback support in the Intel "ANV" driver for Haswell era "Gen 7" graphics...

Simplify your web experience with this internet protocol alternative

opensource.com - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 15:01

If you've been on the internet for a very long time or you're just very resourceful, you might remember an early text-sharing protocol called Gopher. Gopher was eventually displaced by the HTTP protocol, which of course is the basis for the modern World Wide Web. For many people, the "internet" and the "World Wide Web" are the same thing, because many people don't consciously do anything online that's not on the www subdomain.


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5 Scratch code blocks to teach kids how to program a video game

opensource.com - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 15:00

In the second article in this series, you created your first few video game scripts in Scratch. This article explores ways to expand programming's possibilities to create more advanced code.

There are multiple ways to introduce these skills to kids, such as:


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Start using virtual tables in Apache Cassandra 4.0

opensource.com - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 15:00

Among the many additions in the recent Apache Cassandra 4.0 beta release, virtual tables is one that deserves some attention.


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How to Install Odoo (Open Source ERP and CRM) on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 14:22

Odoo is an opensource all-in-one business management software that ships with a suite of various business applications for various uses such as eCommerce, project management, helpdesk, accounting, inventory, and a website builder to mention

The post How to Install Odoo (Open Source ERP and CRM) on CentOS 8 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

U-Boot 2020.10 Released With Many Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 12:00
U-Boot 2020.10 released on Monday as the latest quarterly feature update to this open-source bootloader popular with embedded devices...

Git 2.29-rc0 Released With SHA-256 In Experimental State, Restores Protocol v2 Default

Phoronix - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 08:28
Git 2.29 is on the way with today marking the availability of the initial release candidate...

Python 3.9 Released With Multi-Processing Improvements, New Parser

Phoronix - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 05:52
Python 3.9 is out today as the newest feature update to this extremely popular language in open-source crowds...

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