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The Best RedHat-based Linux Distributions

Tecmint - Wed, 12/02/2020 - 12:31

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a hugely popular enterprise-level operating system that supports a diverse range of open-source technologies such as Ansible automation, Hybrid Cloud, virtualization, and containerization. In this guide, we highlight some

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NVIDIA Is Working On DMA-BUF Passing That Should Help Improve Their Wayland Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/02/2020 - 05:55
NVIDIA is working on allowing their proprietary driver to support passing buffers as DMA-BUF. In turn this should allow for better supporting their proprietary driver on Wayland compared to the EGLStreams mess...

Intel Begins Preparing Linux Graphics Driver Support For Xe HP As "Gen12.5"

Phoronix - Wed, 12/02/2020 - 04:18
Xe HP is Intel's discrete GPU aiming to compete against the latest-generation AMD and NVIDIA compute accelerators. Xe HP isn't scheduled to reach general availability until well into 2021 while now as they begin ramping up their sampling of Xe HP to potential customers, the Linux open-source driver support is preparing to roll-out...

SUSE Completes Its Acquisition Of Rancher Labs

Phoronix - Wed, 12/02/2020 - 01:28
Back in July SUSE announced its intention to acquire Rancher Labs. That deal has now closed for acquiring the Kubernetes focused cloud company...

Two More X.Org Server Security Advisories Issued - Possible Privilege Escalation

Phoronix - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 23:57
Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative has uncovered two more security issues with the aging X.Org Server that as we roll into 2021 is still powering most of the Linux desktops...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Linux Performance Exceeds The RTX 2080 SUPER - Costs Just $399 USD

Phoronix - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 22:00
NVIDIA tomorrow is launching the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with their Founder's Edition card and AIB variants are also expected. For about $400 USD, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti offers performance comparable or slightly faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER and especially much stronger performance for compute and RTX workloads. With the review embargo now lifted a day ahead of the launch, here are the initial Linux benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti under Ubuntu Linux.

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