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FreeBSD's Network Bridge Code Scores A 500% Performance Improvement

Phoronix - Sat, 04/25/2020 - 21:20
Thanks to a FreeBSD Foundation Community Grant, FreeBSD 13 will be bringing up to a 5x performance improvement for if_bridge, the kernel code for network bridge device support...

Wine-Staging 5.7 Fixes Support For Applications Built Using .NET CoreRT

Phoronix - Sat, 04/25/2020 - 20:18
Built off yesterday's exciting Wine 5.7 release that brought more WineD3D Vulkan bits and the start of a USB driver, Wine-Staging 5.7 is out with a number of its patches upstreamed into yesterday's release plus a bit of new functionality...

LXQt 0.15 Released As First Big Update To This Lightweight Qt Desktop In A Year

Phoronix - Sat, 04/25/2020 - 19:13
Friday marked the release of LXQt 0.15, the first big update to this lightweight Qt5-based desktop environment since January 2019. There comes a fair number of improvements with this desktop that was born out of the LXDE and Razor-qt initiatives...

KDE Saw More Wayland Improvements This Week, Other Enhancements

Phoronix - Sat, 04/25/2020 - 19:02
In addition to this week seeing the slew of KDE Apps updates, developers working on the applications, Plasma, and other areas of the KDE ecosystem have remained as busy as ever during the COVID-19 crisis for continuing to improve this open-source desktop...

The rebirth of Mapzen, new projects bolster PyTorch, faster AI object detection, and other open source news

opensource.com - Sat, 04/25/2020 - 15:00

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the rebirth of Mapzen, two new projects to bolster PyTorch, new open source object detection software, and more!


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Intel Tiger Lake Thunderbolt/USB4 Support Is Coming With Linux 5.8

Phoronix - Sat, 04/25/2020 - 14:50
Adding to the growing list of changes building up for Linux 5.8 this summer is now having Tiger Lake Thunderbolt/USB4 support...

Mozilla Releases DeepSpeech 0.7 As Their Great Speech-To-Text Engine

Phoronix - Sat, 04/25/2020 - 12:04
One of the lesser known Mozilla software efforts is DeepSpeech as a speech-to-text engine built atop TensorFlow with CPU and GPU (CUDA) acceleration. Friday marked a new release of this DeepSpeech software that is yielding great results for converting spoken audio streams to text...

A Fix Is Out For The Intel Ice Lake Performance Drop On Linux With The Dell XPS 7390

Phoronix - Sat, 04/25/2020 - 07:39
Earlier this week I highlighted the Dell XPS 7390 "Ice Lake" ultrabook seeing a big performance drop on recent versions of the Linux kernel. Intel engineers seem to have sorted it out and now have a solution in place, which affects those running Linux 5.4 or newer...

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