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Linux 5.11 Will ChaCha Faster With ARM Network Packets, New Keem Bay Crypto Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 22:09
The cryptography subsystem within the Linux kernel is constantly seeing new hardware drivers and other improvements with the current Linux 5.11 cycle being no different...

OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 Alpha Released

Phoronix - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 20:54
With openSUSE Jump progressing as a closer marriage of SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Leap, for those on the openSUSE Leap 15 stable series the first alpha builds of 15.3 are now available for testing...

Linux 5.11 Has Many x86 Platform Driver Changes For From Dell BIOS Controls To Telemetry

Phoronix - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 19:36
The x86-platform-drivers area of the kernel has a lot of prominent additions with Linux 5.11 for benefiting a variety of AMD and Intel laptops...

Linux 5.11 Begins Early Prepping Around PCI Express 6.0

Phoronix - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 17:47
With the PCI subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 5.11 kernel is the ability to report whether a device is making use of the 64 GT/s link speed allowed by PCI Express 6.0...

NVIDIA CUDA 11.2 Released For Further Enhancing Its Proprietary Compute Stack

Phoronix - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 16:46
In addition to the NVIDIA 460 series Linux beta driver being released this week, CUDA 11.2 has also made its debut for Windows and Linux...

Why Vim users will love the Kakoune text editor

opensource.com - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 16:02

The Kakoune text editor takes inspiration from Vi. With a minimalistic interface, short keyboard shortcuts, and separate editing and insert modes, it does look and feel a lot like Vi at first. However, the Kakoune editor has its own unique style both in design and function and is better considered its own editor rather than yet another Vim.


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Understanding 52-bit virtual address support in the Arm64 kernel

opensource.com - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 16:01

After 64-bit hardware became available, the need to handle larger address spaces (greater than 232 bytes) became obvious. With some vendors now offering servers with 64TiB (or more) of memory, x86_64 and arm64 now allow addressing adress spaces greater than 248 bytes (available with the default 48-bit address support).


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How to use Kubernetes resource quotas

opensource.com - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 16:00

"Control" is the word that comes to mind when someone mentions they need to manage Kubernetes compute resources, especially CPU and memory. These conversations generally happen after the Kubernetes platform has been deployed for a while and developers are using the cluster extensively. And most of the time, the topic comes up after a problem happens.


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