Open-source News

Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 20.10 Performance With Intel Tiger Lake, AMD Renoir

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 22:16
Stemming from our initial Intel Core i7 1165G7 "Tiger Lake" benchmarks on the Dell XPS 13 9310 last week and then also discovering better single-threaded performance on Ubuntu 20.10, one of the pressing questions was whether this is expected performance on Linux or if it's coming up short of Microsoft Windows for this first tier-one notebook to market with Intel Tiger Lake. So following those earlier tests I proceeded to do a Windows 10 Pro with all available updates comparison on Ubuntu 20.10 with the i7-1165G7. For added context, the same software stack and tests were repeated on an AMD Ryzen "Renoir" notebook.

Intel Begins Adding Alder Lake Graphics Support To Their Linux Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 22:09
Intel has begun adding support for Alderlake-S to their open-source Linux kernel graphics driver...

Facebook Is Looking To Upstream Their BOLT Binary Performance Optimizer Into LLVM

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 19:00
Facebook's BOLT is a multi-year project focused on speeding up the performance of binaries. This open-source project initially focused on being able to better optimize Linux x86_64/ARM64 ELF binaries as a post-link optimizer. BOLT has been seeing much success with even Google using it now for better performance and now there is work to upstream it as part of the LLVM project...

TrueNAS 12 Released As The Marriage Of FreeNAS + TrueNAS

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 18:37
OpenBSD 6.8, NetBSD 9.1, and now TrueNAS 12.0 is out... It seems to be BSD release week!..

Nouveau + LLVMpipe Drivers Enable OpenCL Image Support

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 16:00
The interesting work continues pouring in for Mesa 20.3 as the Q4'2020 feature release to this open-source graphics stack... The latest excitement is on the "Clover" front for Gallium3D OpenCL...

5 open source tools I can't live without

opensource.com - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 15:00

Some time ago, I engaged with a Twitter thread that went viral among techies. The challenge? Pick only five tools that you cannot live without. I started to think about this in relation to my everyday life, and picking just five tools was not easy.


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How anyone can contribute to open source software in their job

opensource.com - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 15:00

Imagine a world where your software works perfectly for you. It meets your needs, does things your way, and is the ideal tool to achieve great things toward your goals.

Open source software stems from these roots. Many projects are built by engineers that have a problem and build a solution to solve it. Then they openly share their solution with others to use and improve.


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