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Linux 5.10 ARM64 Has A "8~20x" Performance Optimization Forgotten About For Two Years

Phoronix - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 02:45
Last week was the main set of ARM 64-bit architecture updates for Linux 5.10 while today a second batch of changes were sent in for this kernel. That first round had the Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) and Pointer Authentication support among other improvements while this secondary pull has two notable performance optimizations...

Ubuntu 20.10 Released With GNOME 3.38, Active Directory Installer Integration

Phoronix - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 01:16
Ubuntu 20.10, the "Groovy Gorilla", is now officially available...

LLVM Clang 12 Merges Support For x86_64 Microarchitecture Levels

Phoronix - Thu, 10/22/2020 - 21:02
In an effort to better cater towards newer and common x86_64 instruction set extensions, open-source toolchain developers are moving ahead with the work on x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels for being able to target a handful of different "levels" beyond the base x86_64 instruction set...

NFS Client With Linux 5.10 Adds "READ_PLUS" For Faster Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 10/22/2020 - 18:44
The NFS client code with Linux 5.10 has another performance optimization...

How to Install Shutter Screenshot Tool in Ubuntu 20.04

Tecmint - Thu, 10/22/2020 - 18:11

Shutter is a free and open-source, feature-rich screenshot tool for Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu. It is available for all major GNU/Linux distributions and can be installed using the default package manager.

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