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The Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest 2019 Deal - Support Linux/Open-Source Benchmarking  Phoronix

While sadly this is another year not out at Oktoberfest for the once annual Phoronix reader gathering/pilgrimage, there is another Phoronix Premium sale for ...

Going back to December 2017 we've been tracking the Red Hat led effort on improving Nouveau's OpenCL compute support that involves adding NIR/SPIR-V support and improvements to the Clover Gallium3D state tracker. To much surprise, this morning the SPIR-V support for this open-source NVIDIA driver was merged for Mesa 19.3...

FreeBSD 12.0 is already approaching one year old while FreeBSD 12.1 is now on the way as the next installment with various bug/security fixes and other alterations to this BSD operating system...

Linux Operating System Market to See Massive Growth by 2025 | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  Research Newscast

HTF MI recently Announced Southeast Asia Linux Operating System study with 100+ market data Tables and Figures spread through Pages and easy to ...

Linux Operating System Market to See Massive Growth by 2025 | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  Research Newscast

HTF MI recently Announced Southeast Asia Linux Operating System study with 100+ market data Tables and Figures spread through Pages and easy to ...

Canonical's Mir developers since re-shifting focus to serving as a Wayland compositor have been working with the likes of the GNOME2-forked MATE desktop environment to implement Wayland support using Mir. For helping those interested in porting MATE applications from X11 to Wayland, one of the Mir developers has now issued a porting guide...

F2FS Linux 5.4 Changes Sent In With Case-Insensitivity, Get/Set Label Support  Phoronix

Everyone has opinions and preferences, especially when it comes to food. To establish a criterion when answering "How spicy should a jalapeño be?." the Scoville Heat Scale was developed as a standard to measure spiciness. This scale allows people to communicate and share information about how spicy we like our peppers.

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Google on Friday released the Chrome 78 web-browser beta following last week's release of Chrome 77...

NVIDIA this week released Nsight Graphics 2019.5 as the newest feature update to their proprietary developer tool for graphics profiling and debugging across multiple APIs...

The PowerPC/POWER architecture changes were sent in today for the ongoing Linux 5.4 merge window. This time around are some interesting POWER changes with work on their means of secure virtual machines...

Linux 5.4 Prepares IBM POWER For The Ultravisor / Secure Virtual Machines  Phoronix

The PowerPC/POWER architecture changes were sent in today for the ongoing Linux 5.4 merge window. This time around are some interesting POWER ...

Best text editors in 2019: For macOS, Windows, Linux coders and programmers  TechRadar

Looking for a text editor for coding? These are our top picks.

How to create Linux Mint bootable USB drive using ISO image  H2S Media

Step by step guide to create a bootable USB drive using Linux Mint ISO file image on WIndows 10/8/7 OS with help of Rufus open source USB creater software.

While the Ryzen 9 3950X and 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper processors were reportedly on track for launching in October with updates as of a few weeks ago, today AMD announced a slight delay in launching these new processors...

Kicking off today in Berlin is the annual All Systems Go conference focused on systemd and other user-space components. Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering presented on systemd-homed as a new component to systemd that is focused on improving home directory handling...

Since the AMD EPYC 7002 series "Rome" launch at the beginning of August, it's been known how AMD's top-end (aside from the newly-announced EPYC 7H12) EPYC 7742 easily outperforms the Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 in most real-world benchmarks. The EPYC 7742 not only outperforms the Xeon Platinum 8280 in raw performance but also at a significantly lower cost and it gets even better with the EPYC 7642. We have been testing the EPYC 7642 48-core processors and even there the performance is generally ahead of a Xeon Platinum 8280 while being about half the cost of that flagship non-AP Intel Xeon Scalable Cascadelake processor.

Manjaro 18.1: Goes Arch One Better  LinuxInsider.com

Manjaro Linux 18.1, released on Sept. 12, is one of the most complete Linux OSes you will find. It is a powerhouse distro that offers a better Arch Linux ...

NetworkManager has shifted its threshold for a weak WiFi signal for when to begin searching for other WLAN networks. Up to now NetworkManager used a -80dBm threshold for when to roam for other network signals while now that has changed to find hopefully stronger network signals sooner...

Microsoft Teams is Coming to Linux  UC Today

UC Today reports on the latest technology news from around the globe. Read similar Team Collaboration news to 'Microsoft Teams is Coming to Linux' here.