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NVIDIA 455.38 Linux Driver Released With RTX 3070 Support, AMD SME Compatibility

Phoronix - Thu, 10/29/2020 - 21:27
Timed with today's (limited) availability of the GeForce RTX 3070 graphics cards, the NVIDIA Unix driver team has released the 455.38 Linux driver with support for this new Ampere graphics card plus tucking in a few new features and fixes too...

The FSF Is Looking To Update Its High Priority Free Software Projects List

Phoronix - Thu, 10/29/2020 - 18:30
As we roll into 2021 the Free Software Foundation is looking to update its high priority free software projects list. These are the software projects that should be incorporating "the most important threats, and most critical opportunities, that free software faces in the modern computing landscape." For now the FSF is looking for help deciding what to include...

AMDVLK 2020.Q4.2 Vulkan Driver Released

Phoronix - Thu, 10/29/2020 - 18:00
As we hit the end of October AMD has issued their second open-source Vulkan driver code drop of the quarter with the AMDVLK 2020.Q4.2 availability...

How to Install Hadoop Single Node Cluster (Pseudonode) on CentOS 7

Tecmint - Thu, 10/29/2020 - 15:58

Hadoop is an open-source framework that is widely used to deal with Bigdata. Most of the Bigdata/Data Analytics projects are being built up on top of the Hadoop Eco-System. It consists of two-layer, one

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Intel's oneDNN Continues Improving Support For Non-Intel Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 10/29/2020 - 15:48
Earlier this year was the surprising move of Intel's oneDNN neural network library adding AArch64 support and that was then complemented by adding IBM POWER support to this neural network library that is part of their oneAPI collection. Now with the latest oneDNN 2.0 beta they have furthered the support and performance for non-Intel hardware...

Improve your database knowledge with this MariaDB and MySQL cheat sheet

opensource.com - Thu, 10/29/2020 - 15:01

When you're writing an application or configuring one for a server, eventually, you will need to store persistent information. Sometimes, a configuration file, such as an INI or YAML file will do. Other times, a custom file format designed in XML or JSON or similar is better.


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Managing resources with cgroups in systemd

opensource.com - Thu, 10/29/2020 - 15:00

There is little more frustrating to me as a sysadmin than unexpectedly running out of a computing resource. On more than one occasion, I have filled all available disk space in a partition, run out of RAM, and not had enough CPU time to perform my tasks in a reasonable amount of time. Resource management is one of the most important tasks that sysadmins do.


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4 morning rituals for working in tech

opensource.com - Thu, 10/29/2020 - 15:00

Participating in a morning ritual may be something you've been doing for a while, but there's an even greater emphasis this year on taking the time to do something for yourself that brings you joy, calm, and balance to start your day.

If you're working in tech, creating rituals like this—whether they're in the morning, middle of your day, or evening—is critical as we live out a new normal working from home, taking meetings virtually, and missing the energy of in-person connections with colleagues. 


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AMD ROCm 3.9 Released With AOMP OpenMP Offloading Integrated

Phoronix - Thu, 10/29/2020 - 12:27
A new version of the AMD Radeon Open eCosystem (ROCm) has been released on the same day as the company announcing the Radeon RX 6800/6900 series. Meet ROCm 3.9...

GNU Toolchain Begins Adding ARMv8.7-A Support

Phoronix - Thu, 10/29/2020 - 12:05
The GNU compiler toolchain has begun landing Arm's contributions around ARMv8.7-A architecture support...

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