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Windows Subsystem For Linux / WSL2 Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X  Phoronix

Last week we looked at the Windows vs. Linux performance on the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X where there was some very friendly competition and much closer results than we are used to seeing for modern, high-end x86_64 processors between the two operating systems. As a follow-up to that testing, here are results of Windows 10 October 2020 Update with Windows Subsystem for Linux (both WSL1 and WSL2) compared to the performance in turn off bare metal Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS and Ubuntu 20.10 on the same system.

LF Energy Partners with Alliander, RTE and Savoir-faire Linux to Launch Power Grid Virtualization Project  Yahoo Finance

LF Energy Partners with Alliander, RTE and Savoir-faire Linux to Launch Power Grid Virtualization Project  GlobeNewswire

The cryptography subsystem within the Linux kernel is constantly seeing new hardware drivers and other improvements with the current Linux 5.11 cycle being no different...

Linux 5.11 Will ChaCha Faster With ARM Network Packets, New Keem Bay Crypto Driver  Phoronix

Get No-Fuss File-Level Crypto With Fscrypt  LinuxInsider.com

Software-defined power grids: Linux Foundation group debuts platform for utilities  SiliconANGLE News

Red Hat Builds a Common Kubernetes Foundation for Windows and Linux Container Workloads with Windows Containers Support for Red Hat OpenShift  Business Wire

Linux Foundation Public Health Expands Technology and Public Health Community, Accelerates the Fight Against COVID-19  Yahoo Finance

Red Hat Builds a Common Kubernetes Foundation for Windows and Linux Container Workloads with Windows Containers Support for Red Hat OpenShift  Yahoo Finance

How to Use DB Browser for SQLite on Linux  How-To Geek

With openSUSE Jump progressing as a closer marriage of SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Leap, for those on the openSUSE Leap 15 stable series the first alpha builds of 15.3 are now available for testing...

How to reformat an Ext4 drive in Windows 10  Windows Central

The x86-platform-drivers area of the kernel has a lot of prominent additions with Linux 5.11 for benefiting a variety of AMD and Intel laptops...

With the PCI subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 5.11 kernel is the ability to report whether a device is making use of the 64 GT/s link speed allowed by PCI Express 6.0...

In addition to the NVIDIA 460 series Linux beta driver being released this week, CUDA 11.2 has also made its debut for Windows and Linux...

How to install ifconfig on kali Linux to check IP address - Linux Shout  H2S Media

The Kakoune text editor takes inspiration from Vi. With a minimalistic interface, short keyboard shortcuts, and separate editing and insert modes, it does look and feel a lot like Vi at first. However, the Kakoune editor has its own unique style both in design and function and is better considered its own editor rather than yet another Vim.

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After 64-bit hardware became available, the need to handle larger address spaces (greater than 232 bytes) became obvious. With some vendors now offering servers with 64TiB (or more) of memory, x86_64 and arm64 now allow addressing adress spaces greater than 248 bytes (available with the default 48-bit address support).

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