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Last month we provided benchmarks of Ampere Altra against Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC with the Q80-33 CPUs in a 2P / 160 core configuration. From that article, reader questions were raised about how this high performance ARM server chip compares to Amazon's Graviton2 processors, so in this article today are such benchmarks. The Graviton2 via an AWS m6g.metal instance with 64 cores was compared to the Ampere Altra Q80-33 in its 2P 160 core configuration, 1P 80 core configuration, and then a 64 core configuration to match the Graviton2 by disabling the excess cores.

Another NVIDIA engineer has made his first contribution to Mesa in the rather interesting focus of fixing up Volta so atomic operations will work with OpenCL SVM...

Linux Mint 20.1 long-term support release is out  Ghacks Technology News

SDxCentral 2-Minute Weekly Wrap: Linux Foundation Gobbles Open19, Adds Cisco  SDxCentral

Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 20.1 'Ulyssa' is here with Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce  BetaNews

NVIDIA fixes high severity flaws affecting Windows, Linux devices  BleepingComputer

Coming out in early 2020 were patches by an Amazon engineer to implement flushing the L1 data cache on context switching in the name of security given the various data sampling vulnerabilities. That work so far has been rejected from the mainline kernel but today was updated and makes it harder to enable and thus moving forward could stand chances to finally see the opt-in functionality merged to mainline...

L1d Cache Flushing On Context Switch Trying Again But More Conservative In 2021  Phoronix

Linux Mint 20.1 is out today as the latest version of this user-friendly, desktop-focused Linux distribution built off Ubuntu 20.04 LTS...

Linux Mint 20.1 Released With Web Apps, IPTV Player, Cinnamon 4.8 Integrated  Phoronix

Linux on Apple's Arm silicon Macs? This crowdfunded project wants to give it a try  ZDNet

How to get Steam on a Chromebook  Digital Trends

AMDVLK 2021.Q1.1 is out this morning as the first update of the year for the open-source official AMD Vulkan Linux driver and it's an exciting update...

AMDVLK 2021.Q1.1 Brings Switchable Graphics Layer, RDNA 2 Tuning  Phoronix

Could this ambitious project see Linux on Apple M1 Macs?  TechRadar

Could this ambitious project see Linux on Apple M1 Macs?  TechRadar

4 Best Non-Ubuntu-Based Distros That Are Beginner Friendly  Fossbytes

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When I’m not at work on my Linux desktop, you can usually find me writing code for a legacy 16-bit system. FreeDOS is an open source DOS-compatible operating system that you can use to play classic DOS games, run legacy business software, or develop embedded systems. Any program that works on MS-DOS should also run on FreeDOS.

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When people learn that I work as an open source evangelist (focusing on syslog-ng and sudo), they often ask me what it's like to represent such well-known names in the Linux world. My short answer: It's good!

I am part of research and development, so it is never boring. I feel that I make an impact when people implement what they learn from me and when the feedback I collect from users influences the development of the product.

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