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NVIDIA Begins Funding Blender Development

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 05:38
NVIDIA is the latest high profile company now contributing significant funds for advancing the open-source Blender 3D modeling software...

Imad Sousou Steps Down As Head Of Intel's Open-Source Efforts

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 04:46
After an incredible 25 year journey at Intel and having founded the Open-Source Technology Center, Imad Sousou announced today he is stepping away from Intel...

Announcing the All Things Open 2019 lightning talk lineup

opensource.com - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 01:10

If you're attending the All Things Open conference in Raleigh, NC this year be sure to check out our Lightning Talk series on Tuesday, October 15 at 12:45 pm EDT.


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Intel Readies Another Big Graphics Driver Push With Linux 5.5 - Lots For Tigerlake/Gen12

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 01:09
While just one week past the Linux 5.4 merge window cut-off and now with XDC 2019 out of the day, Intel's open-source graphics driver team sent in their first batch of new material they will be targeting for the Linux 5.5 cycle...

PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2019 - 22:18
One of the areas of performance I had been meaning to look more at following the recent AMD EPYC 7002 series launch was for database servers. With the original EPYC 7000 series performance, the performance came up short in competing with Intel Xeon CPUs, but for the EPYC Rome processors it ends up being a very different story. Given the launch last week of PostgreSQL 12, I've been trying out this new database server release on both EPYC and Xeon processors.

Intel Lowers Costs On New Xeon W-2200 Series & Cuts Core 9000 F-Series CPU Pricing

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2019 - 21:30
In addition to The Cascadelake X-Series CPUs laqunching at a much lower price, Intel announced the Xeon W-2200 series today also at lower pricing while cutting prices on their existing Core 9000 F-series desktop CPUs too...

AMD Announces Navi 14 Based Radeon RX 5500 Series

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2019 - 21:22
AMD today lifted the lid on the Radeon RX 5500 series as their first Nav 14 based graphics card. This is the soft launch with no units shipping yet but expected to starting in November...

NVIDIA Still Working On A Generic Allocator - Has Working Open-Source Implementation

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2019 - 19:42
For those wondering, NVIDIA is still pursuing a generic allocator / Unix device memory allocator that has been talked about for years and a potential successor to the likes of the Generic Buffer Manager (GBM). They now have an implementation of their proposed allocator working for the open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver though there still is a lot of work ahead...

The FSF Is Re-Evaluating Its Relationship With The GNU

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2019 - 18:40
With RMS resigning as head of the FSF but ultimately is remaining as head of the GNU, the Free Software Foundation is now publicly re-evaluating its relationship with the GNU...

GDB Debugger Lands CTF Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2019 - 18:32
The GNU Debugger (GDB) now has support for the Compact C Type Format following support for this debugging information format having been added to the GCC compiler and Binutils...

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