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Intel Core i5 10600K + Core i9 10900K

Phoronix - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 21:00
Intel announced at the end of April the 10th Gen Core "Comet Lake" S-Series CPUs with the Core i9 10900K being their new top-end processor with a 10 core / 20 thread processor that can clock up to 5.3GHz. The Comet Lake S-Series desktop CPUs are now shipping and this morning the embargo lifts in being able to publish the benchmarks. Here is how the Intel Core i5 10500K and Core i9 10900K processors are performing on Linux from Steam on Linux gaming to various interesting real-world workloads.

Microsoft Is Writing Its Own Wayland Compositor As Part Of WSL2 GUI Efforts

Phoronix - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 19:09
Microsoft is working on its own Wayland compositor derived from the Weston code-base...

Linux 5.8 To See Faster FUSE Write Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 18:49
FUSE for file-systems in user-space while being criticized by developers in the past and known for being slower than kernel native file-systems is seeing another write optimization come Linux 5.8...

Linux 5.8 To Better Deal With Critical Thermal Faults For Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 16:16
AMD on Tuesday sent in another batch of feature updates for Linux 5.8 with the cut-off for new material upon us with this next kernel cycle expected to begin in early June...

Teach kids Python by building an interactive game

opensource.com - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 15:02

Python has earned a reputation as a wonderful beginner programming language. But where does one begin?

One of my favorite ways to get people interested in programming is by writing games.

PursuedPyBear (ppb) is a game programming library optimized for teaching, and I recently used it to teach my children more about my favorite programming language.


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How to configure your router using VTY shell

opensource.com - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 15:01

Recently, I wrote an article explaining how we can implement Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) using the Quagga routing suite. There are multiple software suites that can be used instead of Quagga to implement different routing protocols. One such option is free range routing (FRR).


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Questions we should ask about COVID-19 contact-tracing apps

opensource.com - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 15:00

One of the cheering things about the pandemic crisis in which we find ourselves is the vast upswell of volunteering that we are seeing across the world. We are seeing this equally across the IT sector, and one of the areas where work is being done is in apps to help track COVID-19. Specifically, there is an interest in COVID-19 contact-tracing or -tracking apps for our mobile0 phones.


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Intel's Habana Labs Mainling Gaudi Accelerator Support In Linux 5.8

Phoronix - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 14:05
AI startup Habana Labs, which was recently acquired by Intel, will see its Gaudi accelerator supported by the upcoming Linux 5.8 kernel...

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