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Dynatron A38 Performance For Cooling 280 Watt AMD EPYC CPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 04/11/2021 - 20:37
Announced in March by Dynatron was their A38 CPU cooler for AMD Ryzen Threadripper and EPYC processors. This heatsink fan is rated for cooling up to 280 Watt SP3/sTRX4/TR4 processors making it capable of cooling even the newest high-end EPYC "Milan" processors with the EPYC 75F3 and 7763 processors. Here are some initial benchmarks of this cooler with the AMD EPYC 7763 server processor.

SiFive FU740 PCIe Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Sun, 04/11/2021 - 18:05
Arguably the most interesting RISC-V board announced to date is SiFive's HiFive Unmatched with the FU740 RISC-V SoC that features four U74-MC cores and one S7 embedded core. The HiFive Unmatched also has 16GB of RAM, USB 3.2 Gen 1, one PCI Express x16 slot (operating at x8 speeds), an NVMe slot, and Gigabit Ethernet. The upstream kernel support for the HiFive Unmatched and the FU740 SoC continues...

EXT4 With Linux 5.13 Looks Like It Will Support Casefolding With Encryption Enabled

Phoronix - Sun, 04/11/2021 - 17:48
While EXT4 supports both case-folding for optional case insensitive filenames and does support file-system encryption, at the moment those features are mutually exclusive. But it looks like the upcoming Linux 5.13 kernel will allow casefolding and encryption to be active at the same time...

Why Crate.io has returned to its pure open source roots

opensource.com - Sun, 04/11/2021 - 15:00

The headline benefits of open source are widely known and well-articulated. Open source technologies provide enterprise-level scalability, performance, security, and reliability. Trust is there, and it's deserved. But what's less celebrated, other than by die-hard open source adherents, are the inner workings of the everyday community contributions building those macro benefits at the atomic level. For those offering open source technologies, it is the community's constant user-driven testing and hardening that forges those technologies into robust and proven solutions.


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LuxCoreRender 2.5 Open-Source PBR Renderer Released With NVIDIA OptiX/RTX Support

Phoronix - Sat, 04/10/2021 - 21:41
The LuxCoreRender open-source physically based rendering (PBR) software is out with its latest major feature release that now offers NVIDIA OptiX/RTX acceleration support alongside the existing CPU, NVIDIA CUDA, and OpenCL rendering paths...

KDE Lands More Crash Fixes, Activities Feature Working On Wayland

Phoronix - Sat, 04/10/2021 - 18:00
It's been another week of fixes and feature work for the KDE desktop as the march continues toward the Plasma 5.22 release this summer...

5 signs you're a groff programmer

opensource.com - Sat, 04/10/2021 - 15:00

I first discovered Unix systems in the early 1990s, when I was an undergraduate at university. I liked it so much that I replaced the MS-DOS system on my home computer with the Linux operating system.


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