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The Linux Kernel Preparing To Take Advantage Of The Intel DSA / ENQCMD In Sapphire Rapids

Phoronix - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 18:46
Expected with next year's Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs is the Intel DSA as the Data Streaming Accelerator for high performance data movement and transformation operations. Since the end of 2019 there have been Linux patches surfacing for bringing up the DSA support and now as we roll into 2021 the Linux kernel looks to begin making use of the new capabilities...

How to Install Linux - How-To Geek

Google News - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 18:40
How to Install Linux  How-To Geek

FFmpeg Now Supports VP9 Profile 2 VDPAU Decode (10-bit / 12-bit)

Phoronix - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 18:19
New to the RTX 30 series and the NVIDIA 455 Linux driver is decode support with VDPAU for VP9 10-bit and 12-bit content, which can now be taken advantage of by the popular FFmpeg multimedia library...

AMD Reportedly In Talks To Acquire Xilinx

Phoronix - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 17:57
While AMD is providing great pressure against Intel in the CPU space, it looks like AMD could be soon going up against them in the FPGA space too...

My open source video game for Open Jam

opensource.com - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 15:01

This year, I joined in on the Open Jam, a "game jam" in which programmers around the world dedicate a weekend to create open source games. The jam is essentially an excuse to spend a weekend coding, and the majority of the games that come out of the challenge are small distractions rather than something you're likely to play for hours on end. But they're fun, diverse, and open source, and that's a pretty good feature list for a game.


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A Last Call For The 2020 Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest Special

Phoronix - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 15:00
Just a friendly reminder and last call that if you wanted to partake in this week's 2020 "Oktoberfest" Phoronix Premium special, it is ending this weekend...

5 ways organizations can lean into failure and transform it into success

opensource.com - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 15:00

"If failure is not an option, then neither is success."—Seth Godin

Success is something we all strive toward, but the road to success has twists and turns, which are also known as our failures. But instead of giving up when things don't go my way, I have learned to look at failures as learning opportunities. In fact, I now proudly admit that I'm a failure:


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How to Install vnStat and vnStati to Monitor Network Traffic in Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 13:38

VnStat is a console-based network traffic monitoring tool design for Linux and BSD. It will keep a log of the network traffic for selected network interfaces. To generate the logs, vnStat uses the information

The post How to Install vnStat and vnStati to Monitor Network Traffic in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired In Linux 5.10 - The First 32-bit PowerPC CPU

Phoronix - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 12:00
The PowerPC 601 as the first-generation processor supporting the 32-bit PowerPC RISC instruction set in the early 90's is being retired with the upcoming Linux 5.10 kernel...

Linux 5.10 To Fix Some HP Laptops Performing Less Than Optimally On AC Power

Phoronix - Fri, 10/09/2020 - 06:00
Some HP Spectre laptops and possibly other HP models as well should be performing better when running on AC power starting with the Linux 5.10 kernel...

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