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The Most Innovative ~$50 Graphics Card For Linux Users

Phoronix - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 04:50
This ~$50 USD graphics card is open-source friendly, can drive four display outputs simultaneously, passively cooled, and can fit in a PCI Express x1 slot. It's a unique card offering good value especially for those Linux users wanting open-source friendly hardware.

Linux-Based TrueNAS SCALE Alpha Released

Phoronix - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 03:07
The crew at iXsystems this week not only released TrueNAS 12.0 as their convergence of TrueNAS and FreeNAS, but they have also put out an alpha build of TrueNAS SCALE as their new Linux-based offering...

Linux 5.10 ARM64 Has A "8~20x" Performance Optimization Forgotten About For Two Years

Phoronix - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 02:45
Last week was the main set of ARM 64-bit architecture updates for Linux 5.10 while today a second batch of changes were sent in for this kernel. That first round had the Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) and Pointer Authentication support among other improvements while this secondary pull has two notable performance optimizations...

Ubuntu 20.10 Released With GNOME 3.38, Active Directory Installer Integration

Phoronix - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 01:16
Ubuntu 20.10, the "Groovy Gorilla", is now officially available...

LLVM Clang 12 Merges Support For x86_64 Microarchitecture Levels

Phoronix - Thu, 10/22/2020 - 21:02
In an effort to better cater towards newer and common x86_64 instruction set extensions, open-source toolchain developers are moving ahead with the work on x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels for being able to target a handful of different "levels" beyond the base x86_64 instruction set...

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