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Linux 5.0 To Linux 5.9 Kernel Benchmarking Was A Bumpy Ride With New Regressions

Phoronix - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 00:25
Recently carrying out some benchmarks of all major kernel releases from Linux 5.0 through Linux 5.9 ended up yielding some surprising performance changes with the in-development 5.9 kernel. Here's details on this historical look at the kernel performance and what's going on with the Linux 5.9 kernel slowdowns.

AMD Begins Teasing Zen 3 + RDNA 2 With Dates In October

Phoronix - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 00:17
It's been widely expected AMD will launch their next-generation RDNA 2 graphics cards and Zen 3 processors in Q4 as they previously reported as well as leaks pointing to October reveal dates. Today the company is sharing actual dates for said announcements...

Systemd 247 Still Aiming To Integrate systemd-oomd

Phoronix - Wed, 09/09/2020 - 22:04
Systemd developers are still hoping to introduce systemd-oomd as part of the next release...

Rav1e 0.3.4 AV1 Encoder Now Running On Android, iOS

Phoronix - Wed, 09/09/2020 - 21:20
Along with Intel's SVT-AV1 0.8.5, another open-source AV1 video encoder seeing a new release this week is the Rust-written rav1e...

Mesa 20.3 Will Let You Fake Having Less Video Memory To Help In Debugging

Phoronix - Wed, 09/09/2020 - 18:42
Wired up in Mesa 20.3-devel is a new DriConf option override_vram_size for overriding a smaller amount of video memory to report to the program/game being run. This is intended for development/debug purposes...

HardInfo – Check Hardware Information in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 09/09/2020 - 17:48

HardInfo (in short for “hardware information“) is a system profiler and benchmark graphical tool for Linux systems, that is able to gather information from both hardware and some software and organize it in an

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Part 3: The Urgent Need for a Future-Ready Board

URSI News - Wed, 09/09/2020 - 17:47

Part 3: The Urgent Need for a Future-Ready Board
~ Dr. Justo Ortiz of UnionBank ‘shows us the money’!

Or, how to bring in the money, at the very least.

To be future-ready, one has to be future-thinking. Ortiz’s UnionBank seemingly is ahead of counterparts supported by some digital banking excellence global awards. The bank’s Board has ‘Future-ready’ written on its target bull’s eye.

The old model does not work anymore. The constant nagging of ‘Change in mindset’ beats ‘Unlearn and relearn only by a few blips.

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