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Linux 5.9-rc4 Kernel Released

Phoronix - Mon, 09/07/2020 - 08:45
Linus Torvalds took some time out of his US Labor Day weekend to issue the fourth weekly release candidate of the Linux 5.9 kernel...

18-Way NVIDIA GPU Performance With Blender 2.90 Using OptiX + CUDA

Phoronix - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 23:40
A few days ago I published a deep dive into the CPU and GPU performance with Blender 2.90 as a major update to this open-source 3D modeling software. Following that I kept on testing more and older NVIDIA GPUs with the CUDA and OptiX back-end targets to now have an 18-way comparison from Maxwell to Turing with the new Blender 2.90...

Faster Reading From /dev/zero With Linux 5.10

Phoronix - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 21:45
Queued up in char-misc-next ahead of the Linux 5.10 cycle is a speed-up for reading from /dev/zero.....

Intel Sends Out Linux Patches For FPGA Security Manager

Phoronix - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 21:25
Patches were posted on Friday for introducing the Intel Security Manager class driver to the Linux kernel...

C++20 Draft Approved As Major Update To C++ Programming Language

Phoronix - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 20:38
On Saturday the ISO/IEC 14882:2020 standards draft was approved as the latest major update to the C++ programming language...

Haiku Seeing Better Rust Support Following Important Fix

Phoronix - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 19:00
Following a summer quest for figuring out a pesky thread issue with Rust, a fix has been merged into the BeOS-inspired Haiku kernel for one less patch to worry about with getting this popular programming language running well...

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