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The Current NVIDIA vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance Ahead Of Ampere

Phoronix - Fri, 08/28/2020 - 02:33
With NVIDIA next week expected to launch their next-generation GeForce RTX 3000 "Ampere" graphics cards, here is a fresh look at the current GeForce RTX 2000 series performance up against the latest AMD Radeon competition when using the very latest Linux graphics drivers for both vendors. This is the very latest performance showdown right now for the AMD/NVIDIA GPU performance under various Linux and Steam Play games on Ubuntu.

AMD Radeon GPU Offloading For GCC Still Maturing In 2020

Phoronix - Fri, 08/28/2020 - 01:01
When it comes to Radeon GPU offloading for compute, most of the emphasis placed by AMD has been on Radeon Open Compute (ROCm) and now as part of that as well is the AOMP compiler for OpenMP targeting the AMD GPUs. Both ROCm and AOMP along with their other graphics driver components like RadeonSI and AMDVLK target an LLVM-based compiler stack as their principal focus, but they do continue engaging with Mentor Graphics who leads the development work on a Radeon GPU back-end for GCC...

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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