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NVIDIA Sends Out Latest Linux Kernel Patches For 1GB THP To Help Boost Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 09/30/2020 - 15:00
NVIDIA software engineer Zi Yan sent out on Monday his latest "1GB PUD THP" patches in aiming to boost application performance on Linux for software making use of large amounts of RAM...

Is it time to revise the Open Source Definition?

opensource.com - Wed, 09/30/2020 - 15:00

The Open Source Definition (OSD), maintained by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), is a foundational pillar of the open source movement. The OSI's view is that software validly labeled "open source" must be made available in a manner that satisfies the 10 criteria set forth in the OSD, all but one of which pertain to licensing terms.


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How my big mistake led to me to success in open source

opensource.com - Wed, 09/30/2020 - 15:00

Although I'm only 20 years old, I've already had many opportunities to help build solutions for a better tomorrow. I've worked with open source technology, research publishing, media, and development. I have served as an administartor and mentor in Google Summer of Code, Google Code-In, and Google Season of Docs with Codeuino, Sugar Labs, Jboss Community, Terasology Foundation, and Open Collective. But my start in open source and technology was not very good.


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Mediatek MT76 WiFi Driver Seeing Nice Improvements For Linux 5.10

Phoronix - Wed, 09/30/2020 - 12:09
For those making use of the "MT76" WiFi driver for Mediatek MT76 series wireless support, the Linux 5.10 kernel should be a nice upgrade...

Intel mOS, Torvalds Commentary, Intel Gen12 Graphics, Zen 2 "XT" CPUs Topped Q3

Phoronix - Wed, 09/30/2020 - 08:47
As we approach the end of Q3'2020 there have been 783 original news articles on Phoronix this quarter and another 40 featured reviews / multi-page articles. Here is a look back at what's been keeping readers informed during this turbulent year...

Intel Has Been Working On OpenCL C 3.0 Support For Clang

Phoronix - Wed, 09/30/2020 - 05:26
Intel's compiler experts in Moscow have been working on OpenCL C 3.0 support for the LLVM Clang compiler front-end...

Mali G72 Now Supported By Open-Source Panfrost Gallium3D Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 09/30/2020 - 01:14
The open-source Panfrost graphics driver, which is now backed/supported by Arm after starting as a reverse-engineering effort, has picked up support for the Mali G72 GPU...

Initial Fedora 32 vs. Fedora 33 Beta Benchmarks Point To Slightly Higher Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 23:00
In addition to Fedora Workstation 33 switching to Btrfs, there are a number of key components updated in Fedora 33 as well as finally enabling link-time optimizations (LTO) for package builds that make this next Fedora Linux installment quite interesting from a performance perspective. Here are some initial benchmarks of Fedora Workstation 32 against the Fedora Workstation 33 Beta on an Intel Core i9 10900K system.

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