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GravityMark OpenGL/Vulkan Performance For NVIDIA RTX 30 vs. AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series

Phoronix - Fri, 06/18/2021 - 21:30
A few days ago I wrote about GravityMark as a new cross-API GPU benchmark from a former Unigine developer. Being curious about the Linux GPU driver performance for this benchmark that is focused on delivering maximum GPU acceleration support, I ran some benchmarks on the latest NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards with this benchmark for OpenGL and Vulkan.

LibreOffice 7.2 Beta Arrives With Initial Command Pop-Up HUD, Better Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 06/18/2021 - 19:17
Following last month's LibreOffice 7.2 Alpha, the first beta for this open-source office suite update is now available for testing...

New Linux Patch To Allow Booting From Arbitrary Non-Block Device File-Systems

Phoronix - Fri, 06/18/2021 - 19:00
The Linux kernel currently has code to allow booting an initial root file-system via NFS or CIFS for non-blockdevice file-systems while a new patch aims to allow for mounting of arbitrary non-block device file-systems as root...

Adreno 660 GPU Support Landing For Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Fri, 06/18/2021 - 17:51
The MSM DRM driver changes have been submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.14 cycle for improving this open-source Qualcomm Adreno kernel graphics/display driver...

Intel i915g Mesa Driver Now Goes Goes Through NIR, Fixes Some Past Test Failures

Phoronix - Fri, 06/18/2021 - 17:19
While this week's landing of the Crocus Gallium3D driver for Intel Gen4 through Gen7 graphics (i965 through Haswell) in Mesa is exciting for Linux users that are still running aging Intel systems, going back even further has been the i915g Gallium3D driver and there this week there happens to be a big improvement too...

5 more reasons to run Kubernetes in your Linux homelab

opensource.com - Fri, 06/18/2021 - 15:02

In 5 reasons to run Kubernetes on your Raspberry Pi homelab, I explain why you might want to use Kubernetes at home. Those reasons are relatively arbitrary, and they mostly focus on outcomes. Aside from what Kubernetes can do, there are several other good reasons to look at Kubernetes as an important next step in your personal computing experience.

1. It's built on the foundation of Linux


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DevSecOps: An open source story

opensource.com - Fri, 06/18/2021 - 15:01

Recent supply chain breaches, plus President Biden's new Cybersecurity executive order, are bringing renewed attention to DevSecOps' value for the enterprise. DevSecOps brings culture changes, frameworks, and tools into open source software (OSS). To understand DevSecOps, you must understand its relationship with OSS.


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