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NVIDIA 460.67 Linux Driver Brings A Few Fixes, 5.11 Kernel Compatibility

Phoronix - Fri, 03/19/2021 - 01:45
While we are very eager to see the NVIDIA 470 series Linux driver for at least having Wayland / DMA-BUF support improvements and OpenGL 3.0 support, for now the NVIDIA 460 series is the latest public stable series and today was updated to v460.67...

Zen 3 GCC Tuning Continues With More Correct Latencies Rather Than "Random Numbers"

Phoronix - Fri, 03/19/2021 - 01:30
On Monday, the AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" launch day, we finally got to see some serious tuning begin for the Zen 3 "Znver3" CPU target in the GCC compiler after that initial code landed at the end of last year. Yesterday a second Zen 3 tuning patch was published and then today a third tuning patch has made it out...

AMD AOCC 3.0 Is Here To Help Squeeze A Bit Extra Performance Out Of Zen 3

Phoronix - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 23:00
This week alongside the EPYC 7003 series launch was the introduction of AOCC 3.0 as AMD's Zen-optimized LLVM/Clang downstream. We have started putting this updated compiler through its paces to see what it means for AMD Zen 3 performance.

CIFSD In-Kernel SMB3 File-Sharing Server Lands In Linux-Next

Phoronix - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 20:45
Samsung for some time now has been working on an in-kernel SMB3 protocol implementation for file sharing across the network with "CIFSD" and it's now been queued into Linux-Next meaning it will likely go for mainline in a coming cycle...

AV1 Codec Library libaom 3.0-rc1 Released

Phoronix - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 19:12
Google has released libaom 3.0.0-rc1 as the AOMedia AV1 Codec Library...

Standalone XWayland Makes It For Ubuntu 21.04 Along With Linux 5.11, Mesa 21.0

Phoronix - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 18:19
As part of planning for Ubuntu 21.04 to use Wayland by default when running on the default GNOME Shell desktop, Ubuntu developers were going to evaluate the standalone XWayland work being pursued by Red Hat initially for Fedora in order to ship newer XWayland code without resorting to releasing a new X.Org Server. That standalone XWayland package is now on its way to the Ubuntu archive...

GCC 11 Squeezes In Another Zen 3 Optimization

Phoronix - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 15:30
Just weeks ahead of the GCC 11 stable release we saw Znver3 tuning work out of SUSE for allowing the GNU Compiler Collection to better cater towards the AMD Zen 3 microarchitecture. That tuning work follows the initial patch at the end of last year that introduced "Znver3" and flipped on the new instructions. Now another patch working on the Zen 3 tuning for GCC has been posted and already merged...

Practice using the Linux grep command

opensource.com - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 15:03

One of the classic Unix commands, developed way back in 1974 by Ken Thompson, is the Global Regular Expression Print (grep) command. It's so ubiquitous in computing that it's frequently used as a verb ("grepping through a file") and, depending on how geeky your audience, it fits nicely into real-world scenarios, too. (For example, "I'll have to grep my memory banks to recall that information.") In short, grep is a way to search through a file for a specific pattern of characters.


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Get started with an open source customer data platform

opensource.com - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 15:01

RudderStack is an open source, warehouse-first customer data pipeline. It collects and routes event stream (or clickstream) data and automatically builds your customer data lake on your data warehouse.


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"Going out of your way to be open": An important practice for executive leaders

opensource.com - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 15:00

Throughout our "Managing with Open Values" series, we've interviewed a number of managers and leaders who shared with us their experiences and practices. In this installment, I interviewed fellow Open Organization Ambassador Sam Knuth to discuss how he lets open values guide his approach to leading large teams.


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Different Ways to Read File in Bash Script Using While Loop

Tecmint - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 13:45
The post Different Ways to Read File in Bash Script Using While Loop first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

This article is all about how to read files in bash scripts using a while loop. Reading a file is a common operation in programming. You should be familiar with different methods and which

The post Different Ways to Read File in Bash Script Using While Loop first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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