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Perl 7 Announced As Evolving Perl 5 With Modern Defaults

Phoronix - Thu, 06/25/2020 - 01:21
Taking place this week is the virtual Perl + Raku "Conference in the Cloud" as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic causing the event to go virtual. A big announcement out of it is Perl 7...

Flatpak 1.8 Released For This Leading Linux App Sandboxing / Distribution Tech

Phoronix - Thu, 06/25/2020 - 00:22
Flatpak 1.8 stable is out today as this leading open-source Linux application sandboxing and distribution technology...

NVIDIA 450.51 Linux Driver Beta Adds NGX Library, PRIME Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 06/24/2020 - 22:06
Earlier this month a NVIDIA 450 Linux beta driver popped out as part of the CUDA 11.0 release candidate. Today though is the first public and generally available NVIDIA 450 series Linux driver beta for all users...

Ubuntu 20.04 vs. Windows 10 WSL/WSL2 Performance In 170+ Benchmarks

Phoronix - Wed, 06/24/2020 - 21:16
Earlier this month was a look at the Windows 10 May 2020 Update performance for WSL/WSL2 with many benchmarks and testing on an Intel Core i9 10900K. Here is a follow-up round of testing this time with HEDT performance in the form of running an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X and running even more benchmarks up to 172 in total for this comparison of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS against WSL and WSL2 performance on this newest Microsoft Windows 10 update.

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