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GCC Benchmarks At Varying Optimization Levels With Core i9 10900K Show An Unexpected Surprise

Phoronix - Mon, 07/27/2020 - 22:07
With the Intel Core i9 10900K "Comet Lake" processor here are some fresh GCC compiler benchmarks when looking at the performance of GCC 8.4 versus 9.3 versus a 10.2 snapshot while testing with optimization flags of -O2, -O3 -march=native, and -O3 -march=native -flto.

Linux Kernel Prepping To Make Use Of Intel's New SERIALIZE Instruction

Phoronix - Mon, 07/27/2020 - 19:15
As outlined a few months ago, Intel's future Sapphire Rapids and Alder Lake processors are set to add a SERIALIZE instruction. That SERIALIZE instruction ensures all flags/register/memory modifications are complete as well as draining all buffered writes to memory before the next instruction is executed. Linux is moving forward with preparing to make use of this new CPU instruction in its function for stopping speculative execution and prefetching of modified code...

DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Intel + Radeon Linux-Ported Graphics Driver Code

Phoronix - Mon, 07/27/2020 - 18:40
DragonFlyBSD developer François Tigeot continues his trek of near single-handedly porting the Intel and Radeon DRM graphics driver code from the Linux kernel to this BSD...

How to Install Lighttpd with PHP, MariaDB and PhpMyAdmin in Ubuntu

Tecmint - Mon, 07/27/2020 - 17:55
Lighttpd is an open-source web server for Linux machines, very fast and very small in size, it doesn’t require a lot of memory and CPU usage which makes it one of the best servers

MikroBUS Patches Being Worked On For Better Supporting These Add-On Boards Under Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 07/27/2020 - 16:08
MikroBUS is the open add-on board standard aiming for "maximum expandability with the smallest number of pins". MikroBUS already has fairly robust industry support particularly in the embedded space while finally a mikroBUS mainline kernel driver may be near for Linux to improve the status quo of driver support...

How to Install Lighttpd with PHP and MariaDB on CentOS/RHEL 8/7

Tecmint - Mon, 07/27/2020 - 15:20
Lighttpd is an open-source, secure, fast, flexible, and more optimized web server designed for speed-critical environments with less memory utilization as compared to other web servers. It can handle up to 10,000 connections parallel

Analyze your web server log files with this Python tool

opensource.com - Mon, 07/27/2020 - 15:02

Ever wanted to know how many visitors you've had to your website? Or which pages, articles, or downloads are the most popular? If you're self-hosting your blog or website, whether you use Apache, Nginx, or even Microsoft IIS (yes, really), lars is here to help.


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