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AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution Source Code Coming Next Month

Phoronix - Tue, 06/22/2021 - 21:17
AMD today released FidelityFX Super Resolution that was announced earlier this month at Computex. Today it's Windows-only with no Linux support being introduced. FidelityFX Super Resolution is open-source but the code drop will not be until next month...

SiFive Announces The Performance P550 As The Fastest RISC-V Processor Yet

Phoronix - Tue, 06/22/2021 - 21:00
SiFive today is announcing the Performance P550 as the fastest RISC-V processor yet while also announcing the Performance P270 too...

FreeBSD 13.0 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.0 vs. Linux On AMD EPYC 7003 Series "Milan"

Phoronix - Tue, 06/22/2021 - 19:30
For those wondering how well the likes of FreeBSD 13.0 and DragonFlyBSD 6.0 performance on AMD's EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors launched earlier this year, here are some initial benchmarks of those BSDs alongside a few Linux distributions. With recently having a Tyan 1U server in the lab with EPYC 7543 32-core processor, I've been running a number of BSD benchmarks on it given these recent BSD releases have been running well on this 1P server.

AMD Drops Pre-Polaris GPU Support From Their Mainline Radeon Software Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 06/22/2021 - 18:04
AMD has shifted all their graphics processors and APUs prior to Polaris / GCN 1.4 to being legacy and will not be supported by their new Radeon Software Adrenalin releases...

W3C Publishes Working Draft For Web Neural Network API

Phoronix - Tue, 06/22/2021 - 17:27
The latest JavaScript API to see a public working draft out of the W3C is for a Web Neural Network API...

9 Best IRC Clients for Linux in 2021

Tecmint - Tue, 06/22/2021 - 15:08
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An IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client is a program that a user can install on their computer and it sends and receives messages to and from an IRC server. It simply connects you to

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Replace du with dust on Linux

opensource.com - Tue, 06/22/2021 - 15:02

If you work on the Linux command line, you will be familiar with the du command. Knowing commands like du, which returns information about disk usage quickly, is one of the ways the command line makes programmers more productive. Yet if you're looking for a way to save even more time and make your life even easier, take a look at dust, which is du rewritten in Rust with more intuitiveness.


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What is a config file?

opensource.com - Tue, 06/22/2021 - 15:01

There are thousands of configuration files on your computer. You may never directly interact with the bulk of them, but they're scattered throughout your /etc folder and in ~/.config and ~/.local and /usr. There are probably some in /var and possibly even in /opt. If you've ever opened one by accident or to make a change, you may have wondered why some configuration files look one way while others look completely different.


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