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Linux 5.7 Delivering Some Gaming Performance Gains For AMD Radeon Navi GPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 04/19/2020 - 00:00
For those using AMD Radeon "Navi" GPUs, the in-development Linux 5.7 kernel is delivering some minor performance improvements compared to prior kernels.

Nouveau Display CRC Support Being Firmed Up Thanks To NVIDIA's Documentation

Phoronix - Sat, 04/18/2020 - 21:16
While waiting to see NVIDIA's new open-source play and ultimately how the re-clocking situation will get addressed for Nouveau so modern GeForce GPUs can work at their intended frequencies on this open-source Linux graphics driver stack, at least the display support has been getting into a more reliable state with CRC support on the horizon as a result of NVIDIA's already published documentation...

FreeBSD On Laptops Is Still A Big Challenge But The Slimbook Could Soon Be Running Well

Phoronix - Sat, 04/18/2020 - 19:26
FreeBSD may be running great on servers at the likes of Netflix, but when it comes to running the BSD operating system on laptops it still is largely a giant mess...

KDE Continuing To See More Wayland Improvements, Fixes To Dolphin

Phoronix - Sat, 04/18/2020 - 18:47
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development recap one day early in highlighting the most recent improvements and new capabilities to this open-source desktop environment...

My 10 guiding principles for open source community management

opensource.com - Sat, 04/18/2020 - 15:00

Many activities these days, be they sports, social work, arts or free and open source software, are organized in some sort of community. If backed by a respective legal entity, this not only helps with getting donations and entering contracts but also puts statutes and rules in place that establish the values and ideals all contributors share and abide by.


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Intel's oneDNN 1.4 Brings More Performance Optimizations To This Deep Learning Library

Phoronix - Sat, 04/18/2020 - 14:55
Intel engineers have outed a new version of oneDNN, the library formerly known as DNNL and before that MKL-DNN for providing a deep neural network library geared for high performance deep learning applications. In aiming to live up to its name, oneDNN 1.4 has more performance optimizations...

How to Reset a Forgotten Root Password in Linux Mint

Tecmint - Sat, 04/18/2020 - 13:46
It’s not unusual for users to forget their root passwords. It’s a common occurrence especially if you haven’t logged in as the root user for a long period of time. It can happen to...

Linux 5.8 To Bring An Arm CryptoCell Driver For True RNG Within TrustZone

Phoronix - Sat, 04/18/2020 - 12:02
Queued up as one of the early changes in the cryptographic subsystem ahead of the Linux 5.8 kernel cycle this summer is an Arm CryptoCell driver...

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