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Fedora 33 Looks To Up Its Code Hardening For 64-Bit Arm Systems

Phoronix - Tue, 05/19/2020 - 12:08
Fedora has been improving its 64-bit ARM (AArch64) support for quite some time and with this autumn's Fedora 33 release it should be in even better shape...

Awards roll call: March 2020 to May 2020

Red Hat News - Tue, 05/19/2020 - 12:00

Summer is just around the corner and Red Hat is adding more awards to our roster! We are proud to announce that several Red Hatters and Red Hat products are being recognized by leading industry publications and organizations for efforts in driving innovation. 

NVIDIA Engineer Revives Work On Linux Proactive Memory Compaction

Phoronix - Tue, 05/19/2020 - 06:11
One of the interesting patch series initially published back in 2019 by NVIDIA engineer Nitin Gupta was on proactive memory compaction for the Linux kernel while so far in 2020 it hasn't yet been merged but a fifth revision to the work was published today...

Xeon Gold 6250 vs. EPYC 7F32 - 8-Core Server CPU Performance On Ubuntu 20.04

Phoronix - Tue, 05/19/2020 - 01:00
Launched last month were the AMD EPYC 7Fx2 CPUs as new high frequency SKUs and with larger L3 cache sizes. Following our initial EPYC 7F52 benchmarking we moved on to testing the EPYC 7F32 and today are putting it head-to-head against the Xeon Gold 6250 and other EPYC/Xeon SKUs while running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

OpenBSD Seeing Initial Work Land On Enabling 64-bit POWER

Phoronix - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 22:51
It's arguably long overdue but OpenBSD is seeing initial work on POWERPC64 enablement landing in its source tree...

GCC 11 Adds CPU Detection For Newer Intel Families

Phoronix - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 21:15
Adding to the early changes accumulating for the GCC 11 development cycle is automatic CPU detection support for newer families of Intel CPUs...

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