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VMware Engineer Revises Work On Concurrent TLB Flushes For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 04:17
After a two year hiatus on the patches, VMware's Nadav Amit has gotten back to working on current TLB flushing support for the Linux kernel in yielding a small but measurable performance improvement...

Early Ubuntu 21.04 Benchmarks Point To Some Slides In Performances But Overall Flat

Phoronix - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 03:31
In yesterday's Linux distribution benchmark comparison on a Ryzen 9 5900X, you may have noticed some of the Ubuntu 21.04 development benchmarks coming in slower than Ubuntu 20.10 but overall a tight race. That is something I've seen now on other systems too -- such as these results to pass along today from an Intel notebook with the latest Ubuntu 20.10 vs. 21.04 development tests...

Linux 5.12 Adds eMMC Inline Encryption For Better Performance, Lower Power Use

Phoronix - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 01:03
Thanks to Google engineers the Linux 5.12 kernel is providing punctual support for eMMC inline encryption that is being ratified with a forthcoming specification update and already being found within some mobile hardware...

Firefox 86.0 Released With Total Cookie Protection, Stack Clash Protection

Phoronix - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 23:02
Firefox 86.0 is out today as the latest monthly update to this open-source web browser that continues to work on ramping up its security offerings...

Radeon RADV Driver Enables Displayable DCC For Some Performance Benefit

Phoronix - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 21:58
The open-source Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has now enabled displayable DCC (Delta Color Compression) support that should yield some performance benefit while there still is more work to be completed...

Sony PlayStation DualSense Driver Headlines The HID Updates For Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 20:32
The HID subsystem updates were sent in this morning for the ongoing Linux 5.12 merge window...

Libinput 1.17 Brings New Debugging Tool, 2/3 Finger Tap-And-Drag

Phoronix - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 19:32
Libinput 1.17 is out as the newest version of this Wayland/X.Org input handling library for the Linux desktop...

GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Beta Released With Wayland Improvements, Overview Redesign

Phoronix - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 18:58
GNOME 40 beta is coming together with the GNOME Shell and Mutter components having seen new releases on Monday...

A guide to Python virtual environments with virtualenvwrapper

opensource.com - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 16:01

For some time, Python has included support for managing virtual environments. Python 3.3 even added the built-in venv module for creating environments without third-party libraries. Python programmers use several different tools to manage their environments, and the one I use is called virtualenvwrapper.


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