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Kubernetes communication, SRE struggles, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 00:30

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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Linux 5.5 To Advertise RDPRU Support For AMD Zen 2 CPUs Via /proc/cpuinfo

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 00:23
RDPRU is one of the new instruction set extensions of AMD "Zen 2" CPUs that is for reading a processor register that is typically limited to privilege level zero. RDPRU allows for reading select registers at any privilege level. With Linux 5.5, the RDPRU presence will be advertised by the CPU features...

Firefox 69 + Chrome 77 On Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu / Clear Linux Benchmarks

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 21:51
With running some fresh cross-OS benchmarks now that Ubuntu 19.10 is imminent followed by Ubuntu 19.10, a new Windows 10 update coming in the days ahead, and also the release of macOS 10.15, a lot of fun benchmarks are ahead. In today's article is a quick look at the Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 vs. Clear Linux web browser performance for both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

Navi 14 AMDGPU Firmware Lands In The Linux-Firmware.Git Tree

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 19:34
Just one day after announcing the Radeon RX 5500 series as the first Navi 14 GPUs, AMD has submitted the firmware binaries to the linux-firmware.git tree that are required for usage with the open-source Linux graphics driver...

KDE's KWin To Still Pursue X11 Composite Unredirect, More Wayland Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 18:47
KDE developer Roman Gilg attended the X.Org Developer's Conference last week in Montreal. At XDC2019 he provided the X11/Wayland developers with an overview of KWin's architecture as both an X11 window manager and Wayland compositor along with talking of some of the future plans...

GNOME 3.34.1 Released With Latest Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 18:18
GNOME 3.34.1 is out as the first point release to last month's big GNOME 3.34 desktop debut...

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