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Radeon ROCm 2.8 Released But Still Without Navi Support

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2019 - 16:14
AMD released Radeon Open Compute 2.8 (ROCm 2.8) for ending out September. But to some surprise and sadness, this open-source Radeon GPU compute stack still isn't supporting the Navi GPUs...

What's your favorite compiler?

opensource.com - Sat, 09/28/2019 - 15:02

Everyone has a favorite tool for any given job. For programmers, the building process is often a relatively brief job in their workflow, but it's the one that really matters. After all, without compiled code, there's nothing to distribute to users. And different compilers have different features and—whether or not there's a bug about it—quirks. Compilers matter.


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Microsoft open sourcing its C++ library, Cloudera's open source data platform, new tools to remove leaked passwords on GitHub and combat ransomware, and more open source news

opensource.com - Sat, 09/28/2019 - 15:00

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look Cloudera's open source data platform, Microsoft open sourcing its C++ library, new tools to beef up digital security, and more!


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RPM 4.15 Released With Experimental Rootless Chroot Support

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2019 - 13:35
RPM 4.15 is officially out this week as the newest version of the RPM Package Manager most often associated with Red Hat / Fedora systems...

Oracle Reaffirms Supporting Solaris 11 Through Part Of The Next Decade

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2019 - 12:05
Oracle has reaffirmed their "long term commitment to deliver innovation on Oracle Solaris" though it still doesn't look like anything past Solaris 11 will materialize...

DXVK 1.4.1 Released With Workarounds For Batman: Arkham City, Hitman 2

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2019 - 05:55
DXVK lead developer Philip Rebohle has done another weekly update to DXVK for helping weekend gamers have the best Steam Play / Proton experience...

Wine 4.17 Adds DXTn Compressed Textures, Windows Script Runtime Library

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2019 - 05:08
Wine 4.17 has been uncorked for weekend testing as the newest bi-weekly feature development release of this open-source project for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms...

Linus Torvalds Hasn't Yet Decided On "LOCKDOWN" Functionality For Linux 5.4

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2019 - 03:10
The Linux 5.4 kernel merge window is set to close this weekend and as of writing it's still yet to be decided by Linus Torvalds whether to accept the kernel "lockdown" functionality feature for this release...

Linux 5.4 To Allow Adjusting Intel TCC Thermal Activation Offset For Better Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2019 - 02:21
In addition to adding Intel Icelake support to the kernel's processor thermal / int340x code, there is an interesting change with the thermal management updates for Linux 5.4 to potentially boost the performance on Intel platforms...

Initial Benchmarks Of CentOS 8.0 & CentOS Stream On Intel Xeon / AMD EPYC

Phoronix - Fri, 09/27/2019 - 22:16
With this week's release of the much anticipated CentOS 8.0 as the community/free rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 as well as the surprise announcement of the bleeding-edge, rolling-release CentOS Stream, we have begun benchmarking these enterprise Linux distribution releases. Up today are our first tests of CentOS 7.7 against CentOS 8.0 and the early CentOS Stream state on Intel Xeon Cascadelake and AMD EPYC Rome servers.

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