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Intel's Clear Linux Still Outperforming Other Distributions For Mid-2020

Phoronix - Thu, 08/06/2020 - 01:00
Being well past the half-way point for the year, here is a look at how Intel's performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution is performing compared to its rolling state last December. Plus there are also benchmarks looking at how the current Clear Linux is performing against other rolling-release distributions.

Intel Workaround For Graphics Driver Regression: "The Platform Problem Going Crazy"

Phoronix - Wed, 08/05/2020 - 21:54
Sent out over the weekend was a patch series for the Intel Linux kernel graphics driver entitled "Time, where did it go?" This set of 42 patches aims to provide incremental improvements to the driver to offset a performance regression in Linux 5.7 that Intel hasn't been able to track down. This this increased complication of the driver to offset the regression is now under the microscope...

LibreOffice 7.0 Released As The Open-Source, Vulkan-Accelerated Office Suite

Phoronix - Wed, 08/05/2020 - 19:57
LibreOffice 7.0 has been released! Making LibreOffice 7.0 so exciting is that the Cairo code was replaced with Google's Skia library and in the process gaining optional support for GPU accelerating the user-interface with Vulkan...

Google Engineers Propose "Machine Function Splitter" For Faster Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 08/05/2020 - 19:28
Google engineers have been working on the Machine Function Splitter as their means of making binaries up to a few percent faster thanks to this compiler-based approach. They are now seeking to upstream the Machine Function Splitter into LLVM...

Corsair Commander Pro Driver Sent In To Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Wed, 08/05/2020 - 19:18
The hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem has a new driver that is likely to excite some enthusiasts wanting greater control over thermal monitoring and fan control for their systems...

How to Automatically Build and Configure Custom Docker Images with Dockerfile – Part 3

Tecmint - Wed, 08/05/2020 - 16:29
This tutorial will concentrate on how to build a custom Docker image based on Ubuntu with Apache service installed. The whole process will be automated using a Dockerfile. Docker images can be automatically built

How to Install, Run and Delete Applications Inside Docker Containers – Part 2

Tecmint - Wed, 08/05/2020 - 16:19
Following the previous Docker article, this tutorial will discuss how to save a Docker container into a new image, remove a container, and run an Nginx web server inside a container. Requirements How to

Modernize network function development with this Rust-based framework

opensource.com - Wed, 08/05/2020 - 15:01

The world of networking has undergone monumental shifts over the past decade, particularly in the ongoing move from specialized hardware into software defined network functions (NFV) for data plane1 and packet processing.


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