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CentOS 6 Through CentOS 8 Benchmarks On Intel Xeon

Phoronix - Sun, 12/08/2019 - 01:00
Complementing the CentOS 8 benchmarks I did following the release of that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 rebuild in late September, here are tests going back further for showing the performance of CentOS 6, CentOS 7, and CentOS 8 all benchmarked from the same Intel Xeon Scalable server. These tests were done about a month ago albeit with all the hardware launches, new child, and other factors, only now getting to posting the data.

RADV's ACO Compiler Back-End Now Supported For Older AMD "Sea Islands" GPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 23:15
The Valve-backed "ACO" compiler back-end for the open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver has added support now for AMD GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands" graphics cards...

Some Of The Interesting Open-Source Projects For Outreachy's Winter 2019 Round

Phoronix - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 22:14
Outreachy recently kicked off their winter (December to March) round of internships for diversity in tech with 49 individuals tackling a range of open-source tasks...

Wayland's Weston 8.0 Reaches Alpha With EGL Partial Updates, Headless OpenGL

Phoronix - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 19:36
Weston release manager Simon Ser on Friday released the Wayland's Weston 8.0 reference compositor in alpha form...

Linux 5.5 KVM Adds POWER Support For Secure Guests/VMs

Phoronix - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 18:25
IBM's work from over a year ago in working towards secure virtual machines on POWER hardware is finally coming to fruition with Linux 5.5 due out early next year...

Mesa 20.0 Now Includes Intel's Gallium3D Driver To Build By Default

Phoronix - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 16:13
As part of the ongoing effort for Intel's plans to use their new Gallium3D OpenGL Linux driver by default on next quarter's Mesa 20.0 for Broadwell "Gen8" graphics and newer, another step in that direction was achieved on Friday...

Getting started with the GNOME Linux desktop

opensource.com - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 16:02

The GNOME project is the Linux desktop's darling, and deservedly so. It began as the free and open desktop alternative to proprietary options (including KDE at the time), and it's been going strong ever since. GNOME took GTK+, developed by the GIMP project, and ran with it, developing it into a robust, all-purpose GTK framework.


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New machine learning from Alibaba and Netflix, mimicking animal vision, and more open source news

opensource.com - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 16:00

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look an open source election auditing tool, new open source from Alibaba and Netflix, mimicking animal vision, and more!


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Linux 5.5 Adds NFS Client Support For Cross-Device Offloaded Copies (Server To Server)

Phoronix - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 13:59
With NFSv4.2 is the server-side copy (SSC) functionality with the Linux 5.5 kernel's NFS client-side support for that support in allowing "inter" copy offloads between different NFS servers...

GRUB Now Supports Btrfs 3/4-Copy RAID1 Profiles (RAID1C3 / RAID1C4 On Linux 5.5+)

Phoronix - Sat, 12/07/2019 - 13:02
When it comes to the storage/file-system changes with the in-development Linux 5.5 kernel one of the most prominent end-user-facing changes is more robust RAID1 for Btrfs with the ability to have three or four copies of the data rather than just two copies, should data safety be of utmost importance and concerned over the possibility of two disks in an array failing...

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