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FreeBSD vs. Linux Scaling Up To 128 Threads With The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

Phoronix - Thu, 02/20/2020 - 22:54
Last week I looked at the Windows vs. Linux scaling performance on the Threadripper 3990X at varying core/thread counts followed by looking at the Windows 10 performance against eight Linux distributions for this $3990 USD processor running within the System76 Thelio Major workstation. Now the tables have turned for our first look at this 64-core / 128-thread processor running on the BSDs, FreeBSD 12.1 in particular. With this article is looking at the FreeBSD 12.1 performance and seeing how the performance scales compared to Ubuntu 20.04 Linux and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 based CentOS Stream.

GNOME Shell + Mutter See Changes For Tracking Software Rendering, VNC To Toggle Animations

Phoronix - Thu, 02/20/2020 - 20:08
GNOME Shell and Mutter saw a set of patches land today for GNOME 3.36 that have been around for a few months and deal with the tracking of software rendering and VNC usage where GNOME Shell should in turn disable animations to ease the rendering workload...

Raptor Rolls Out New OpenBMC Firmware With Featureful Web GUI For System Management

Phoronix - Thu, 02/20/2020 - 19:46
While web-based GUIs for system management on server platforms with BMCs is far from anything new, Raptor Computing Systems with their libre POWER9 systems does now have a full-functioning web-based solution for their OpenBMC-powered systems and still being fully open-source...

Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics To Support 12-Bit HEVC/VP9 Decode

Phoronix - Thu, 02/20/2020 - 19:28
We are learning more about the media engine capabilities with the forthcoming Intel "Gen12" (Xe) Tiger Lake graphics...

Using Python and GNU Octave to plot data

opensource.com - Thu, 02/20/2020 - 16:02

Data science is a domain of knowledge that spans programming languages. Some are well-known for solving problems in this space, while others are lesser-known. This article will help you become familiar with doing data science with some popular languages.


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Tools for SSH key management

opensource.com - Thu, 02/20/2020 - 16:01

I use SSH constantly. Every day I find myself logged in to multiple servers and Pis (both in the same room as me and over the internet). I have many devices I need access to, and different requirements for gaining access, so in addition to using various SSH/SCP command options, I have to maintain a config file with all the connection details.

Over time I’ve come up with a few time-saving tips and tools that you might find useful, too.


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Introducing our Jinja2 cheat sheet

opensource.com - Thu, 02/20/2020 - 16:00

Jinja2 is a templating language for Python. While it got its start on the web for use with the Flask framework, it is popular in many other places. Both Flask and Pelican use it to template HTML pages, allowing seperation between style and content.


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