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Intel Core i5 11600K + Core i9 11900K Linux Performance Across ~400 Benchmarks

Phoronix - Tue, 03/30/2021 - 21:00
Today's the day that we can finally talk about the performance of Intel's "Rocket Lake" processors under Linux. The past several weeks we have been extensively testing the Core i5 11600K and Core i9 11900K processors under Linux. Here is a look at the very exciting Gen12 Xe Graphics performance out of these new desktop CPUs, the Linux gaming performance, and then over 300 other benchmarks looking at the CPU/system performance of the i5-11600K / i9-11900K processors against the prior generation Comet Lake parts and the AMD Ryzen 5000 series competition.

NVIDIA 465.19.01 Linux Beta Driver Released

Phoronix - Tue, 03/30/2021 - 21:00
While looking forward to the NVIDIA 470 series Linux driver for Wayland support improvements, before getting there NVIDIA is first introducing the 465 driver series. Today marks the first publicly available NVIDIA 465 Linux driver beta...

Intel's Bus Lock Detection Might Be Ready For The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 03/30/2021 - 19:05
For longer than the past year Intel engineers have been working on wiring up the Linux kernel support to handle split lock detection and bus lock detection. Back in Linux 5.7 the split lock detection landed for warning or even killing the offending software should a split lock occur due to the significant performance impact and possible denial of service. Now it's looking like the bus lock detection code could be ready for mainline...

Linux 5.13 To Enable The Keyboard/Touchpad Of Newer Microsoft Surface Laptops

Phoronix - Tue, 03/30/2021 - 18:10
The quest of improving the Microsoft Surface laptop support under Linux continues. With Linux 5.13 there is going to be not only the Surface DTX driver but another new Surface driver queued up is "surface-hid" that will allow supporting the keyboard and touchpad on newer Surface devices...

Intel IGC Network Driver Queues XDP Support For Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Tue, 03/30/2021 - 17:49
The Intel IGC network driver (not to be confused with their other IGC, the Intel Graphics Compiler) that supports their Gigabit/2.5G Ethernet devices has support for the Express Data Path (XDP) with the upcoming Linux 5.13 cycle...

Access Python package index JSON APIs with requests

opensource.com - Tue, 03/30/2021 - 15:02

PyPI, the Python package index, provides a JSON API for information about its packages. This is essentially a machine-readable source of the same kind of data you can access while browsing the website. For example, as a human, I can head to the NumPy project page in my browser, click around, and see which versions there are, what files are available, and things like release dates and which Python versions are supported:


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