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What’s new in RHEL 8.1: Kernel patching, more Insights, and right on time

Red Hat News - Tue, 11/05/2019 - 13:00

Last week we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Red Hat’s inaugural Halloween release. This week? We’ve got Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 hitting the streets on schedule and ready to take on your toughest workloads. In RHEL 8.1 we have some new tools, live kernel patching, a new system role, and more. Here’s a quick preview of the highlights in RHEL 8.1.

Netflix Optimized FreeBSD's Network Stack More Than Doubled AMD EPYC Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 11/05/2019 - 08:35
Drew Gallatin of Netflix presented at the recent EuroBSDcon 2019 conference in Norway on the company's network stack optimizations to FreeBSD. Netflix was working on being able to deliver 200Gb/s network performance for video streaming out of Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC servers, to which they are now at 190Gb/s+ and in the process that doubled the potential of EPYC Naples/Rome servers and also very hefty upgrades too for Intel...

DXVK Lead Developer Philip Rebohle Has Begun Contributing More To Wine's VKD3D

Phoronix - Tue, 11/05/2019 - 06:39
With DXVK in remarkably good standing for translating Direct3D 10/11 to Vulkan for use by Steam Play (Proton) and Wine, Philip Rebohle who started that project is now contributing more to Wine's VKD3D initiative for mapping Direct3D 12 on Vulkan...

GNU Toolchain Moves Ahead In Obsoleting Solaris 10 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 11/05/2019 - 04:43
Beyond GCC 9 having deprecated Solaris 10 support and that code now removed ahead of the GCC 10 release in a few months, the GNU Debugger (GDB) is also moving forward with its plan to obsolete Solaris 10...

FreeBSD 12.1 Released With LLD Linker On i386 By Default, Now Shipping Libomp

Phoronix - Tue, 11/05/2019 - 03:18
FreeBSD 12.1 has released on-time as the first incremental update to last year's FreeBSD 12...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Linux Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 11/05/2019 - 00:42
Last week NVIDIA announced the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER as their newest Turing "SUPER" graphics card coming in at $229+ USD and delivering around 1.5x faster performance than the GeForce GTX 1060. For those wondering about the Linux gaming performance potential for this graphics card, here are our initial tests of this new graphics card using the EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER.

Hypervisor comeback, Linus says no and reads email, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Mon, 11/04/2019 - 23:50

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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NVIDIA 440.31 Linux Driver Adds HDMI 2.1 VRR Support, VP9 Decode, DXVK Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2019 - 23:07
NVIDIA has rolled out the 440.31 Linux driver today as their first stable update in this new driver branch...

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