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Arm Outlines More Neoverse N2 + Neoverse V1 Platform Details

Phoronix - Tue, 04/27/2021 - 20:52
Arm published today a set of blog posts outlining more power/performance and feature details of their forthcoming Neoverse N2 and Neoverse V1 platforms...

Stratis 2.4 Released With Multi-Threaded Daemon, Root File-System Support

Phoronix - Tue, 04/27/2021 - 19:11
While Fedora Workstation has been moving along with its Btrfs file-system usage and beginning to make greater use of its functionality, Red Hat does continue investing heavily in Stratis-Storage as their path forward for next-generation Linux storage with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Today marks the release of Stratis 2.4...

Char/Misc Brings Binder Freeze, PVPANIC, Habana Labs Improvements To Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Tue, 04/27/2021 - 18:23
The "char/misc" continues to be the random catch-all subsystem for the Linux kernel for drivers and buses not fitting well into other areas of the Linux kernel. Increasingly char/misc is hosting various accelerator/offload devices with the kernel still not yet introducing its own formal accelerator subsystem. With Linux 5.13 the "char/misc" pull continues to be heavy on a wide assortment of changes...

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now Correctly Rendering... Glxgears

Phoronix - Tue, 04/27/2021 - 18:00
While Zink implements OpenGL 4 and is running an increasing number of games with good performance, one of the simple "demos" it hasn't been able to render correctly in recent years has been glxgears. But that milestone is now crossed once again with the latest Mesa code...

EROFS Sends In "Big Pcluster" Support For Linux 5.13, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 04/27/2021 - 17:46
The EROFS read-only file-system developed by Huawei is seeing some new feature work with the in-development Linux 5.13 kernel...

5 Linux Command Line Based Tools for Downloading Files and Browsing Websites

Tecmint - Tue, 04/27/2021 - 15:45
The post 5 Linux Command Line Based Tools for Downloading Files and Browsing Websites first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Linux command-line, the most adventurous and fascinating part of GNU/Linux is a very cool and powerful tool. A command-line itself is very productive and the availability of various inbuilt and third-party command-line applications makes

The post 5 Linux Command Line Based Tools for Downloading Files and Browsing Websites first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

USB + Thunderbolt Updates Hit Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Tue, 04/27/2021 - 15:38
Greg Kroah-Hartman sent in the big batch of USB and Thunderbolt subsystem updates on Monday for the in-development Linux 5.13 kernel...

Upgrade your Linux PC hardware using open source tools

opensource.com - Tue, 04/27/2021 - 15:01

In my article on identifying Linux performance bottlenecks using open source tools, I explained some simple ways to monitor Linux performance using open source graphical user interface (GUI) tools. I focused on identifying performance bottlenecks, situations where a hardware resource reaches its limits and holds back your PC's performance.


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