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Intel Prepping Bus Lock Detection For Linux To Avoid This Performance Pitfall

Phoronix - Thu, 07/30/2020 - 14:56
Building off the recently mainlined Intel work on split lock detection, Intel engineers have now been extending that with bus lock detection support...

How to Set Up Nginx Server Blocks (Virtual Hosts) on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Thu, 07/30/2020 - 13:28
An Nginx server block is the equivalent of an Apache virtual host and makes it possible for you to host more than one domain or website on your server. Related Article: How to Set

MSM Open-Source Driver Continues On Qualcomm Adreno 640/650 Series Bring-Up

Phoronix - Thu, 07/30/2020 - 12:09
The open-source MSM DRM driver developed by Google, Qualcomm's Code Aurora, and other parties as what started out as part of the "Freedreno" driver initiative is continuing to see better support for the newer Adreno 640 and 650 series...

Red Hat partners pave the way for future success & growth

Red Hat News - Thu, 07/30/2020 - 12:00

It’s hard to believe that we are already halfway through the year, and what a year it has been. Thank you to all of our partners for their contributions to drive success for our clients and for demonstrating impressive flexibility and creativity during these difficult times. While this year has certainly been one of continuous change and new challenges, I would like to take the opportunity to reflect on the momentum and innovation seen across our partner ecosystem thus far. 

Linux Quietly Makes It Harder To Guess Network RNG's Internal State

Phoronix - Thu, 07/30/2020 - 08:43
Merged today to mainline for Linux 5.8 Git and also marked for back-porting is a change to make it more difficult to guess the network random number generator's internal state. It looks like it could be for a yet-to-be-published vulnerability...

GCC Sees More Progress On Ability To Parallelize The Compilation Of Large Source Files

Phoronix - Thu, 07/30/2020 - 06:17
While GCC with GNU Make and other build systems can scale nicely in compiling many files concurrently, there has been an ongoing GCC effort to be able to parallelize more of the GNU Compiler Collection work when compiling large source files...

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