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Radeon Software for Linux 20.30 Released

Phoronix - Fri, 08/07/2020 - 21:23
Just under two months since Radeon Software for Linux 20.20 that is comprised of the AMDGPU-Open and AMDGPU-PRO driver components for these packaged drivers, Radeon Software for Linux 20.30 was quietly released at the end of last week...

RISC-V Software Support Adds More Features With Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Fri, 08/07/2020 - 19:15
More kernel architecture features continue to be supported by the RISC-V code with Linux 5.9...

AMDVLK 2020.Q3.3 Driver Enables Its Pipeline Cache

Phoronix - Fri, 08/07/2020 - 18:44
The latest open-source code snapshot of AMD's official Vulkan driver is now available...

An advanced guide to NLP analysis with Python and NLTK

opensource.com - Fri, 08/07/2020 - 15:01

In my previous article, I introduced natural language processing (NLP) and the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), the NLP toolkit created at the University of Pennsylvania. I demonstrated how to parse text and define stopwords in Python and introduced the concept of a corpus, a dataset of text that aids in text processing with out-of-the-box data. In this article, I'll continue utilizing datasets to compare and analyze natural language.


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Meeting for the first time after 26 years of open source collaboration

opensource.com - Fri, 08/07/2020 - 15:00

Collaborating on an open source software project is inherently an online experience. For me, almost all of my interaction has been via email. I'll send someone a patch, and they'll review it and reply to me. Or a user will file a bug, and I'll respond to it via the bug tracker. More commonly, developers in the open source community will discuss ideas via the email list.


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Bashtop – A Resource Monitoring Tool for Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 08/07/2020 - 13:22
Bashtop is a terminal-based resource monitoring utility in Linux. It’s a nifty command-line tool that intuitively displays statistics for your CPU, memory, running processes, and bandwidth to mention just a few. It ships with

Researchers Make More Discoveries Around L1TF/Foreshadow - It's Not Good

Phoronix - Fri, 08/07/2020 - 09:12
Security researchers from Graz University of Technology and CISPA Helmholtz are out with their latest findings on CPU speculative execution vulnerabilities, namely taking another look at L1TF/Foreshadow. Their findings are bad news not only for Intel but potentially other CPU vendors as well...

USB Cleans Up Its Terminology, Continued USB4 Work For Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Fri, 08/07/2020 - 08:52
The USB and Thunderbolt subsystem changes have already been merged into the in-development Linux 5.9 kernel...

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