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Basemark GPU 1.2 Brings Linux Support - Wins For NVIDIA, Woes For Mesa

Phoronix - Tue, 03/10/2020 - 00:00
Last week Basemark launched their Basemark GPU 1.2 benchmark that now includes Linux support alongside all other major supported desktop and mobile operating systems. We've been testing out this Linux version with OpenGL and Vulkan support on both AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce hardware.

New High Quality GPU Compression Codec Going Open-Source In The Coming Days

Phoronix - Mon, 03/09/2020 - 21:50
Compression experts Rich Geldreich and Stephanie Hurlburt with their Binomial consulting firm are about to release a high-quality open-source compression codec for GPUs...

Intel's Compute Runtime Adds oneAPI Level Zero Support

Phoronix - Mon, 03/09/2020 - 19:52
Intel's open-source Compute Runtime for OpenCL and now oneAPI support on Linux has added oneAPI Level Zero support...

Fujitsu A64FX Support Added To The LLVM Clang 11 Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 03/09/2020 - 19:14
Fujitsu has contributed support for their high-performance A64FX ARMv8-based CPU cores to the LLVM Clang compiler...

Memcached 1.6 Released With Enhanced Performance For This Memory Caching System

Phoronix - Mon, 03/09/2020 - 18:52
Memcached 1.6 was released on Sunday as a big update for this popular open-source distributed memory caching system...

LLVM Clang 10 Can Build Over 95% Of The Debian Package Archive

Phoronix - Mon, 03/09/2020 - 18:44
While the Debian archive continues to be built with the GCC compiler by default and will likely remain that way for the foreseeable future, Debian developers do continue experimenting with building the Debian archive under LLVM's Clang...

How to Fix “Failed to set locale, defaulting to C.UTF-8” in CentOS 8

Tecmint - Mon, 03/09/2020 - 15:19
Have you ever encountered the warning/error “Failed to set locale, defaulting to C.UTF-8” in CentOS 8 or RHEL 8? If yes, then this article describes how to fix this error. Note that this article...

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