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AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" Linux Benchmarks - Superb Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 03/15/2021 - 23:00
It's been one and a half years already since the EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors launched. It's hard to think it's been that long due not only to the pandemic but the incredible performance of these Zen 2 server processors. The EPYC 7002 series continues to largely outperform Intel's Xeon Scalable processors and while Ice Lake is coming soon, for now AMD is expanding their lead with today's EPYC 7003 "Milan" processor launch. We have begun our testing of AMD EPYC Milan processors in recent weeks under Linux and have preliminary performance figures to share today as well as more information on these next-gen server/HPC processors.

GCC Compiler Sees New Patch With Tuning For AMD Zen 3 (Znver3)

Phoronix - Mon, 03/15/2021 - 19:00
GCC is in the process of seeing better support for AMD Zen 3 processors with its znver3 target...

Wine-Staging 6.4 Released With 686 Patches Rebased Against Upstream

Phoronix - Mon, 03/15/2021 - 18:13
Building off Friday's release of Wine 6.4 is now Wine-Staging 6.4 with an extra 686 patches atop this code-base for allowing Windows games and applications to run on Linux...

Lenovo Continues Improving Their Linux Support Down To The Hardware Sensors

Phoronix - Mon, 03/15/2021 - 15:30
One of the great Linux hardware milestones of 2020 was Lenovo beginning to offer Linux pre-loads on their desktops/laptops with the likes of Fedora and Ubuntu. But it's been great just not for having another major OEM offering Linux pre-loads but because they have also been engaging directly on Linux support improvements both through their engineers and at partners like Red Hat. That upstream support work has continued nicely...

Learn how file input and output works in C

opensource.com - Mon, 03/15/2021 - 15:02

If you want to learn input and output in C, start by looking at the stdio.h include file. As you might guess from the name, that file defines all the standard ("std") input and output ("io") functions.

The first stdio.h function that most people learn is the printf function to print formatted output. Or the puts function to print a simple string. Those are great functions to print information to the user, but if you want to do more than that, you'll need to explore other functions.


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