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How I de-clutter my digital workspace

opensource.com - Sat, 01/30/2021 - 16:00

In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 20 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021.

I am a digital pack-rat. So many of us are. After all, who knows when we'll need that email our partner sent asking us to pick up milk on our way home from work in 2009?


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Wine 6.1 Brings VKD3D 1.2 Support, Improvement For Apple M1 Macs With Rosetta

Phoronix - Sat, 01/30/2021 - 05:30
Following the release of Wine 6.0 stable earlier this month, Wine 6.1 is now available as the first bi-weekly development snapshot that will ultimately culminate with the Wine 7.0 stable release next year...

Samsung 870 EVO Linux Performance Benchmarks

Phoronix - Sat, 01/30/2021 - 05:20
For those continuing to rely on SATA 3.0 storage, last week Samsung introduced the 870 EVO as their latest solid-state drive in the very successful EVO line-up. For those curious about the Linux performance of the Samsung 870 EVO or wanting to run your own side-by-side benchmarks against the data in this article, here is a review looking at the Samsung 870 EVO 500GB SSD.

GNU C Library 2.33 Should Be Out Soon - And It's Very Exciting Due To "HWCAPS"

Phoronix - Sat, 01/30/2021 - 02:29
While most Linux users likely don't get excited when hearing of a new Glibc release, version 2.33 of the GNU C Library is due to be released next week and it's pretty darn interesting for having the new HWCAPS functionality in opening up for more optimized out-of-the-box Linux performance moving forward...

Intel's Open-Source Compute Stack Continues Work Towards Multi-GPU Support

Phoronix - Sat, 01/30/2021 - 00:34
While Intel's large open-source Linux graphics driver team has been pushing a lot of code over the past number of months for bringing up their DG1 graphics and other current/forthcoming discrete graphics offerings, one area that is still in its infancy is around the multi-device handling. At least from the compute side, there is some recent progress being made for multi-device support...

Ubuntu 21.04 To Turn On LTO Optimizations For Its Packages

Phoronix - Fri, 01/29/2021 - 21:00
On top of aiming to use Wayland by default, another high profile change being worked on for this spring's release of Ubuntu 21.04 is using link-time optimizations (LTO) for all 64-bit package builds...

Mesa 21.0 Gearing Up To Ship As Soon As Next Week For Latest Open-Source GPU Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 01/29/2021 - 20:42
For those Linux gamers and other desktop users of the open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers with some extra time this weekend, Mesa 21.0-RC3 is now available for testing as what might be the last release candidate before officially releasing Mesa 21.0 as soon as next week...

Open-Source NVIDIA Changes Sent In For Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Fri, 01/29/2021 - 19:25
Following NVIDIA RTX 30 open-source mode-setting support in Linux 5.11, the batch of feature changes slated for the Linux 5.12 kernel have now been submitted to DRM-Next...

AMDVLK 2021.Q1.2 Brings More Radeon RX 6000 Series Optimizations

Phoronix - Fri, 01/29/2021 - 18:48
AMDVLK 2021.Q1.1 released near the beginning of the month with various "RDNA 2" optimizations while now AMDVLK 2021.Q1.2 is out in closing out the month and bringing more Big Navi optimizations...

Machine learning made easy with Python

opensource.com - Fri, 01/29/2021 - 16:02

Naïve Bayes is a classification technique that serves as the basis for implementing several classifier modeling algorithms. Naïve Bayes-based classifiers are considered some of the simplest, fastest, and easiest-to-use machine learning techniques, yet are still effective for real-world applications.


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