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RadeonSI Lands Optimization For Uber Shaders

Phoronix - Fri, 10/30/2020 - 21:31
On top of the AMD Zen L3 cache optimizations hitting Mesa 20.3 today, Marek Olšák has also landed his RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code for optimizing OpenGL uber shaders...

Mesa 20.3 Lands Rewritten AMD Zen L3 Cache Optimization

Phoronix - Fri, 10/30/2020 - 18:30
You may recall going back to 2018 that well known open-source AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olsak was working on Mesa optimizations around the AMD Zen architecture. In particular, better handling of Mesa for Zen's L3 cache design. A rewritten implementation of that has now landed along with some other improvements...

Oracle Continues Building DTrace For Linux Atop BPF

Phoronix - Fri, 10/30/2020 - 18:01
More than a decade ago Linux users tended to be envious of Sun Microsystems' Solaris for ZFS and DTrace as the two most interesting technical selling points of the platform. In that time OpenZFS is now extremely vibrant for offering ZFS on BSD and Linux systems while DTrace is barely brought up these days. This tracing framework originally developed for Solaris was fantastic back in the day but over the years Linux has stepped up its game with various efforts. Now as we hit the end of 2020, Oracle engineers continue working on bringing better DTrace support to Linux...

How to Monitor Performance Of CentOS 8/7 Server Using Netdata

Tecmint - Fri, 10/30/2020 - 16:23

There are tons of monitoring tools that are used for keeping an eye on systems performance and sending notifications in case something goes wrong. However, the installation and configuration steps involved are often tedious.

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Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 0.11 Adds Windows Guest Support

Phoronix - Fri, 10/30/2020 - 15:41
Intel has a shiny new feature release out of their open-source Cloud-Hypervisor that runs atop KVM and leveraging the Rust programming language...

My journey to becoming an open source mentor

opensource.com - Fri, 10/30/2020 - 15:00

I was just 16 when I made my first meaningful open source contribution. It was the first code contribution I ever made, and I learned a lot from it. I'm 20 now, and I've been strongly attached to free and open source software (FOSS) ever since. I strive to be a friend to my community colleagues and to help others continue growing, learning, and succeeding.


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RT-Thread launches developer event

opensource.com - Fri, 10/30/2020 - 15:00

RT-Thread is an open source embedded real-time operating system (RTOS) providing a wide range of components along with more than 250 software packages (and counting) for the Internet of Things (IoT). In previous Opensource.com articles, the RT-Thread project has demonstrated how to code hardware with an RTOS and how to program for IoT using open source tools.


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