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An Introduction To Intel's Tremont Microarchitecture

Phoronix - Fri, 10/25/2019 - 01:30
Intel's Stephen Robinson is presenting today at the Linley Fall Processor Conference on the company's Tremont microarchitecture. Here is a look at Tremont from our pre-briefing earlier this week.

Intel Icelake "Gen11" Graphics Are A Huge Upgrade Over Gen9 With Good Linux Support

Phoronix - Thu, 10/24/2019 - 23:23
Earlier this week I delivered our initial look at the Core i7-1065G7 Icelake Linux performance compared to Whiskey Lake and Kabylake-R. The CPU performance improvements and performance-per-Watt for this 10nm+ CPU is a big upgrade over those earlier notebooks while now here is our first look at how the Icelake "Gen11" graphics compare to those aging Gen9 graphics.

Qt 5.14 Beta 2 Released As Another Chance To Test The Big Toolkit Update

Phoronix - Thu, 10/24/2019 - 22:14
The second beta of the forthcoming Qt 5.14 is now available for testing ahead of this Qt5 tool-kit update before more attention turns to focusing on Qt 6.0 for release around this time next year...

Red Hat Provides New VirtIO Windows Driver Installer

Phoronix - Thu, 10/24/2019 - 19:39
Red Hat engineers are busy working on oVirt 4.4 as the next feature release for this virtualization management platform that forms the basis of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. For this next release they are planning to ship a new Windows installer for their drivers to ease the deployment...

F2FS File-System Seeing LZO/LZ4 Compression Support

Phoronix - Thu, 10/24/2019 - 18:58
Similar to the transparent file-system compression that has been available on the likes of Btrfs and ZFS for years, the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is also in the process of receiving native compression support...

Intel 8K Display Support Should Be Working With Linux 5.4

Phoronix - Thu, 10/24/2019 - 18:50
On top of the many Linux 5.4 features we have been talking about so far, it turns out with this kernel update due out in November that 8K display support for Intel (Gen11 Icelake and newer) should be in order...

Google's SwiftShader Is Becoming Conformant & Performant For Vulkan On CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 10/24/2019 - 15:52
SwiftShader had traditionally been about OpenGL and Direct3D over CPUs as a fallback while in recent years Google has been focused on making it viable for Vulkan. Recently SwiftShader reached Vulkan 1.1 conformance, but besides being conformant to the standard it's also showing it has some CPU performance potential...

How to Manage Networking with NetworkManager in RHEL/CentOS 8

Tecmint - Thu, 10/24/2019 - 15:37
In RHEL and CentOS 8 the networking service is managed by the NetworkManager daemon and it is used to dynamically configure and control network devices and keep connections up and active when they are...

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