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KDE Plasma 5.19 Rolls Out In Beta Form With Many Improvements, Better Wayland Support

Phoronix - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 22:32
The KDE community has released the first beta of the forthcoming Plasma 5.19 desktop release...

NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit Preview

Phoronix - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 21:00
Originally slated for the NVIDIA GTC event but then delayed due to the coronavirus, the Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit is launching today for "cloud native computing" on edge/AI devices.

Linux 5.7 Seeing Radeon FreeSync Fixes, Back-Ported Soft Recovery For Navi

Phoronix - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 19:19
While yesterday GFX10/Navi soft recovery support was sent in to DRM-Next for Linux 5.8, today that material was sent in as a "fix" for Linux 5.7 along with a number of other AMDGPU driver alterations...

AMDVLK 2020.Q2.3 Released With New Extension, Various Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 18:50
AMDVLK 2020.Q2.3 was released today as the newest version of this official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems...

LLVM Lands Support For The Marvell ThunderX3

Phoronix - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 18:35
Announced back in March were the Marvell ThunderX3 Arm server processors with up to 96 cores per SoC and support for 4-way SMT to yield up to 384 threads per socket. These 7nm Arm server processors also support eight channels of DDR4-3200 memory, 64 lanes of PCIe 4.0, and other competitive features for a 2020 server CPU. While we await to see how the ThunderX3 processors perform, the compiler support and other Linux software features are getting all buttoned up...

How to Install Varnish Cache for Apache on CentOS/RHEL 8

Tecmint - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 15:55
Varnish Cache is a free open source, modern and high-performance web application accelerator. It is a fast reverse HTTP proxy that caches content to speed up your web server performance, by storing web content...

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