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Intel DPTF Battery Support Published For Linux  Phoronix

NVIDIA container runtime for Wind River Linux  WIND

Wine 5.9 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release for this software allowing Windows games and applications to generally run quite gracefully on Linux...

When it comes to the support for AMD Ryzen 4000 "Renoir" laptop support under Linux, as outlined in my testing so far this month the main caveat is needing Linux 5.6~5.7 for good graphics support but on the likes of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with Linux 5.4 you will not have GPU acceleration. At least in the case of the Lenovo IdeaPad 5 I have been using to test, you also need Linux 5.7 Git for battery sensor support. Another item that in turn is coming with Linux 5.8 is CPU temperature reporting for the Renoir processors...

AMD Renoir Temperature Monitoring To Come With Linux 5.8  Phoronix

This Is The Year Of Linux On The Desktop - Via Windows  iProgrammer

Pico-ITX board runs Linux on an i.MX8M Mini  LinuxGizmos.com

Last week Amazon AWS promoted their Graviton2 instances to general availability status with a variety of different sized EC2 instances as well as a bare metal instance for tapping the full potential of their new SoC that features 64 Arm Neoverse N1 cores. Last week we ran through many benchmarks looking at Graviton2 on EC2 and bare metal performance while here is a follow-up article with more benchmarks and looking at how the sixty-four core Arm Graviton2 compares to AMD's EPYC 7742 64-core CPU with and without SMT.

The Linux kernel patches that have been spearheaded by Amazon AWS engineers to optionally flush the L1 data cache on each context switch have now been queued in the x86/mm branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.8 kernel cycle...

Linux 5.8 Set To Optionally Flush The L1d Cache On Context Switch To Increase Security  Phoronix

There hasn't been too much to report on the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" kernel driver in some time since the enabling of Turing and no apparent progress on re-clocking to allow the graphics cards to hit their rated clock frequencies (the longstanding, number one limitation for this open-source driver), but some changes were sent in today for the upcoming Linux 5.8 kernel merge window...

Open-Source NVIDIA/Nouveau Changes Submitted For Linux 5.8  Phoronix

Allwinner Tech has prepared their initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the A100 SoC. The A100 SoC is one of their newest tablet-focused SoCs moving forward...

Allwinner Preparing Their A100 SoC Support For The Upstream Linux Kernel  Phoronix

SAP HANA on Linux – the best Linux platform is SUSE Enterprise  The Union Journal

Facebook's compression experts responsible for Zstandard have today released Zstd 1.4.5 with more performance improvements...

SAP HANA on Linux - the best Linux platform is SUSE Enterprise  TechHQ

Seize the opportunity to transform SAP and the enterprise, with SUSE  Tech Wire Asia

WordPress is the most popular platform in the world for building websites, be it a blog, an e-commerce website, a business website, a portfolio website, an online business directory, and so on. It is...

A shared filesystem is a great way to add versatility and functionality to a homelab. Having a centralized filesystem shared to the clients in the lab makes organizing data, doing backups, and sharing data considerably easier. This is especially useful for web applications load-balanced across multiple servers and for persistent volumes used by Kubernetes, as it allows pods to be spun up with persistent data on any number of nodes.

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