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With Intel seemingly ramping up work on their open-source OSPray portable ray-tracing engine now that they have pulled it under their oneAPI umbrella as part of a forthcoming rendering tool-kit, I figured it would be the latest interesting candidate for benchmarking of AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 performance. In addition, the Embree ray-tracing kernels are also being benchmarked as part of this performance comparison.

Intel in cooperation with Facebook have announced they are releasing a Firmware Support Package (FSP) to allow Xeon Scalable "Skylake-SP" to boot with Coreboot...

Linux 5.4-rc1 didn't end up being released on Sunday night as is tradition but instead there were some last-minute critical patches that landed around the kernel's handling of the random number generator / entropy at boot-time...

Microsoft is considering bringing Chromium-based Edge to Linux  TechRadar

Linux From Scratch stable version 9.0 released – OSnews  OS News

zfs-0.8.2 releases with support for 2.6.32 – 5.3 Linux kernels and major bug fixes  Packt Hub

Linux Conference 2019 here next week – Register Now  MyBroadband

Seven years after the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers began transitioning their codebase from C to C++, they are now discussing the prospects of adopting C++11 as their allowed C++ standard revision for developing this open-source compiler...

Ansible is a free and opensource automation tool that allows system administrators to configure and control hundreds of nodes from a central server without the need of installing any agents on the nodes. It...

About a year ago, I came across an article on Twitter, Ditching Windows: 2 Weeks With Ubuntu Linux On The Dell XPS 13, by Jason Evangelho, a long-time Forbes tech writer. Here was a person who was clearly fired up from his recent experience using Linux. He had recently been sent a laptop running Windows 10 for evaluation and, in the middle of a large file transfer, the machine restarted without warning.

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The Stack Overflow Survey Results for 2019 are in! The dataset is quite large; according to the description:

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Linux 5.4 Will Try When Needed To Actively Generate RNG Entropy To Avoid Boot Problems  Phoronix

Linux 5.4-rc1 Kernel Steps Forward With Next-Gen GPU Bits, Arm Laptop Support & exFAT  Phoronix

Corteza is open source software often used as an alternative to Salesforce. In addition to its customer relationship management (CRM) application, one of its most popular and empowering features is its low-code development environment, which helps users create custom Corteza apps that give them exactly what they need.

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OpenMandriva is one of the few Linux distributions (and arguably the only prominent one) that uses LLVM Clang as its default compiler toolchain over GCC for building its packages and the preferred C/C++ compiler exposed to its users. One of the last hold outs for this Clang'ed Linux distribution has been the kernel build but that is now no longer a blocker...

Linus Torvalds To Add "Lockdown" Security Feature In Linux 5.4  Fossbytes

USB Armory MkII: A USB-C Thumb Drive Based Linux Computer For Pentesters  Hackaday

Latest Feature Kernal 'lockdown' included in Linux  California Times USA

The virtual GPU/display landscape particularly for having accelerated guest graphics was once non-existent and then suffering for the open-source Linux virtualization stack around QEMU, but that is no longer the case. There are options these days to rival the GPU/display offerings of VirtualBox and VMware albeit to newcomers may not be so clear...

1. Linux to get kernel 'lockdown' feature  ZDNet
2. Latest Feature Kernal 'lockdown' included in Linux  California Times USA
3. Linux Will Receive New “Lockdown” Security Feature  TechnoStalls Media
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