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Red Hat extends collaboration with NVIDIA to optimize infrastructures across the hybrid cloud

Red Hat News - Mon, 10/05/2020 - 12:00

As an increasing number of applications and related complexity put unprecedented demands on computing infrastructures, our customers are realizing that the future of computing needs to be more heterogeneous in nature; a single technology, no matter how innovative, cannot address all the requirements of modern, let alone future computing.  

Free Software Foundation Celebrates Its 35th Birthday

Phoronix - Mon, 10/05/2020 - 12:00
The Free Software Foundation on Sunday marked thirty five years since its founding by Richard Stallman...

Linux 5.9-rc8 Released To Provide An Extra Week Of Testing

Phoronix - Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:25
While normally the Linux kernel sees its stable releases after about seven weeks worth of release candidates, today Linux 5.9-rc8 was issued in allowing an extra week of testing...

The Failed OUYA Game Console Seeing Work For Mainline Linux Kernel Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/05/2020 - 03:00
It's been eight years already since the launch of the OUYA game console built atop Android and initially driven up by hype as a new low-cost gaming platform only to turn out to be a commercial failure. Razer bought out OUYA's software assets in 2015 and last year finally shutdown all of the console services. But if you still have the OUYA hardware it soon may start running off the mainline Linux kernel...

Easier CPU/GPU Comparisons On OpenBenchmarking.org, Other New Features

Phoronix - Mon, 10/05/2020 - 01:43
With the new OpenBenchmarking.org that's been out in public form since last month and being developed as part of the soon-to-be-released Phoronix Test Suite 10.0, here is the latest feature now enabled in making it much easier for quickly carrying out high-level processor (CPU) and graphics card (GPU) component comparisons along with other improvements...

The Most Prominent Linux 5.9 Kernel Features From AMD RDNA 2 To Battling Nefarious Shims

Phoronix - Sun, 10/04/2020 - 21:48
The Linux 5.9 kernel could be released as soon as today but more than likely will be pushed back to next Sunday given Torvalds' comments last week and continuing to see plenty of merge requests in recent days. But in any case when Linux 5.9 does ship very soon it comes with an abundance of new features and improvements...

2020 "Oktoberfest" Premium Special For Supporting Linux News, Benchmarking

Phoronix - Sun, 10/04/2020 - 21:24
While the wiesn (Oktoberfest) was cancelled this year, a few Phoronix readers inquired whether I was going to offer the traditional "Oktoberfest special" sale for Phoronix Premium to help support our daily Linux/open-source news, hardware reviews, and benchmarking during this turbulent year. So, yes, here is our annual Oktoberfest special if you would like to show your support during these COVID times...

SHADERed 1.4.1 Released With Compute Shader Debugger

Phoronix - Sun, 10/04/2020 - 20:44
SHADERed as the open-source, cross-platform shader integrated development environment now has a compute shader debugger built-in...

Intel MAX10 BMC Hardware Monitoring With Linux 5.10

Phoronix - Sun, 10/04/2020 - 18:54
Linux 5.10 will bring a new driver for the Intel MAX10 BMC...

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