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With the in-development Linux 5.3 kernel is now support for Intel Speed Select Technology (SST) that was introduced as part of Cascade Lake processors. Speed Select Technology allows optimizing the system with per-core performance configurations to prioritize certain workloads while lowering the performance envelope for other cores...

Thread Synchronization in Linux and Windows Systems, Part 1  Embedded Computing Design

This article will be useful for those who have never programmed applications with multiple threads but plan to do so in the future.

AMD Zen 2 processors feature hardware-based mitigations for Spectre V2 and Spectre V4 SSBD while remaining immune to the likes of Meltdown and Zombieload. Here are some benchmarks looking at toggling the CPU speculative execution mitigations across various Intel and AMD processors.

Q4OS 3.8 Stable Released, Kernel 5.2.1 Is Out, Cloudera Announces New Open-Source Licensing Model, Microsoft's Quantum Development Kit Now Available as an Open-Source Project on GitHub and Alan Turing to Be Featured on New Note in the UK  Linux Journal

News briefs for July 15, 2019. Q4OS 3.8 stable was released today. This is a long-term support (LTS) release based on Debian Buster 10 with Plasma 5.14 and ...

For those in the market for an AMD X570 high-end motherboard for use with the new Zen 2 processors, the ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO was one of the boards sent out as part of the reviewer's kit and it's been working out quite well...

Best Linux Distro for Windows 7 Refugees: Manjaro KDE  Ghacks Technology News

Mike explains why he thinks that Manjaro Linux is the best choice for Windows 7 users who want to make the switch to Linux.

An AI Wizard of Words  Linux Journal

A look at using OpenAI's Generative Pretrained Transformer 2 (GPT-2) to generate text. It's probably fair to say that there's more than one person out there who is ...

Linux Operating System Market 2019 - 2025 | Emerging Key Players by Size, Types, Applications and Regions  Boston Life News

Global “Linux Operating System market” research report 2019-2025 offers an unbiased and complete analysis of the on-going trends, opportunities/ high ...

At 479,818 lines of new code and just 36,145 lines of code removed while touching nearly two thousand files, the Direct Rendering Manger (DRM) driver updates for Linux 5.3 are huge. But a big portion of that line count is the addition of AMD Radeon RX 5000 "Navi" support and a good portion of that in turn being auto-generated header files. Navi support is ready for the mainline Linux kernel!..

With more tier-one Linux distributions working on plans for doing away with 32-bit x86 support, if you are looking for a new distribution to play nicely with older hardware, Q4OS 3.8 may be it...

Q4OS 3.8 Released As A Traditional Desktop Linux Distribution Built Atop Debian 10.0  Phoronix

With more tier-one Linux distributions working on plans for doing away with 32-bit x86 support, if you are looking for a new distribution to play nicely with older ...

The char/misc changes with each succeeding kernel release seem to have less changes to the character device subsystem itself and more just a random collection of changes not fitting in other subsystems / pull requests. With Linux 5.3 comes another smothering of different changes...

AMD resolves Destiny 2, Linux crashes via AGESA update  bit-tech.net

AMD has confirmed that a bug causing Destiny 2 and selected Linux distributions to fail to run on its latest Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 series processors will need ...

AMD resolves Destiny 2, Linux crashes via AGESA update  bit-tech.net

AMD has confirmed that a bug causing Destiny 2 and selected Linux distributions to fail to run on its latest Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 series processors will need ...

Solectrix SX Mobile Device Kit Runs Linux or Android on NXP i.MX8M Mini Processor  CNX Software

Powered by NXP i.MX8M Mini, Solectrix SX Mobile Device Kit enables commercial mobile devices running Android Pie, Debian, or Yocto Linux.

Epic Games has announced that they have donated $1.2 million in cash towards the Blender Project, an open source tool to create 3D graphics animation and even entire games. This award is part of the Epic MegaGrants Initiative which Epic Games has committed $100 million. This program was created to help game developers, students, professionals, and creators. [Source: TheOuterHaven]

Linux kernel announces a patch to allow 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range  Packt Hub

Last month, the team behind Linux kernel announced a patch that allows 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range. This patch allows for these 16m new IPv4 ...

PostgreSQL, also known as Postgres, is a powerful, open-source object-relational database management system that uses and expands the SQL language combined with numerous features that safely keep and scale the most complex data workloads....

What is POSIX, and why does it matter? It's a term you've likely seen in technical writing, but it often gets lost in a sea of techno-initialisms and jargon-that-ends-in-X. I emailed Dr. Richard Stallman (better known in hacker circles as RMS) to find out more about the term's origin and the concept behind it.

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If you are a programmer or a student pursuing computer science or a similar discipline, sooner or later, you will encounter the term "software design pattern." According to Wikipedia, "a software design pattern is a general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design." Here is my take on the definition: When you have been working on a coding project for a while, you often begin to think, "Huh, this seems redundant.

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