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Microsoft Is Exploring LTO+PGO For A Faster Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 08/27/2020 - 22:04
While more and more software vendors are employing link-time optimizations (LTO) and profile-guided optimizations (PGO) for leveraging the compiler to squeeze out performance, it may surprise many that Microsoft engineers are exploring LTO+PGO for the Linux kernel in their own quest of achieving greater Linux performance...

Linux Per Thread Queues Aim For Traffic Isolation, Higher Performance Networking

Phoronix - Thu, 08/27/2020 - 20:07
The newest Linux networking feature to get excited about that's in development is PTQ, or Per Thread Queues...

Intel's Early Linux 5.10 Graphics Driver Changes Include Tiger Lake HOBL

Phoronix - Thu, 08/27/2020 - 17:00
While the Linux 5.9 kernel cycle is still young and not seeing its formal release until early October or so, Intel's open-source team has already submitted to DRM-Next their first batch of feature changes desired for Linux 5.10...

Make virtual meetings better with this OBS trick

opensource.com - Thu, 08/27/2020 - 15:01

Have you ever been in a web meeting where someone asks, "Can you see my screen?" or "Can you hear me?" and 400 people answer "yes" at the same time? Or even worse, nobody answers at all? Have you ever wanted to show agreement or give a confirmation on a video call without having to turn on your microphone, because you feel it might be disruptive? This happens to me often. Like when someone asks, "Does anyone have anything else for the good of the order?" and I want to say, "No, I'm good," but I don't want to speak over anyone else who has something to add.


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Use this command-line tool to find security flaws in your code

opensource.com - Thu, 08/27/2020 - 15:00

Testing is an important part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), and there are several stages to it. Today, I want to talk about finding security issues in the code.


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LLVM Clang Will Finally Honor "-mtune=" On x86/x86_64 CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 08/27/2020 - 14:49
Starting with LLVM Clang 12.0 next year, the Clang compiler on x86/x86_64 CPUs will finally honor -mtune= in a similar manner to GCC...

How to Install Android OS to Run Favourite Games and Applications in Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 08/27/2020 - 13:31

Android (x86) is a project which aims to port the Android system to Intel x86 processors to let users install it easily on any computer, the way they do this is by taking an

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Ubuntu To Try Again In Switching IPTables To Use Nftables Backend

Phoronix - Thu, 08/27/2020 - 12:08
Back during the Ubuntu 20.04 cycle there was an attempt to switch the iptables back-end to Nftables by default. That plan was ultimately foiled by LXD at the time running into issues and other fallout. But now t hat those issues should be addressed and Debian Buster has switched to Nftables, the move is being re-attempted next week for Ubuntu 20.10...

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