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Intel's Mesa Drivers Point To Even More Comet Lake Parts

Phoronix - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 12:00
There were already 18 new PCI IDs for Intel's open-source OpenGL/Vulkan Linux graphics drivers for forthcoming Comet Lake processors with UHD Graphics, but now it appears there are even more models en route...

Let's build an education system for an open future

Red Hat News - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 12:00

(Editor's note: This is an edited version of a chapter that appears in The Open Organization Guide for Educators, available now.)

GCC's Conversion To Git: "Within The Realm Of The Practically Achievable"

Phoronix - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 04:46
It was back in July 2018 that GCC's conversion to Git was becoming a massive headache and now more than a year later it's looking like that switch from Subversion to Git is still weeks if not months from becoming official...

The Power Efficiency Between Ubuntu 19.04, Clear Linux & openSUSE Tumbleweed With CompuLab's Airtop 3 - Phoronix

Google News - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 03:30
The Power Efficiency Between Ubuntu 19.04, Clear Linux & openSUSE Tumbleweed With CompuLab's Airtop 3  Phoronix

With CompuLab's incredibly well engineered Airtop 3 fan-less computer that is built to meet rugged industrial requirements while being loaded with an ...

The Power Efficiency Between Ubuntu 19.04, Clear Linux & openSUSE Tumbleweed With CompuLab's Airtop 3

Phoronix - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 03:30
With CompuLab's incredibly well engineered Airtop 3 fan-less computer that is built to meet rugged industrial requirements while being loaded with an 8-core/16-thread Xeon CPU, NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 graphics, 64GB of RAM, and NVMe solid-state storage, here is an interesting benchmark comparison of Ubuntu 19.04, Clear Linux, and openSUSE Tumbleweed. Given the interesting system under test, not only is the raw performance being looked at but also the performance-per-Watt / AC power consumption and CPU thermal differences between these Linux operating systems.

Global Linux Software Market 2019 - Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle - Feed Chip

Google News - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 03:23
Global Linux Software Market 2019 - Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle  Feed Chip

The given report is an excellent research study specially compiled to provide latest insights into critical aspects of the Global Global Linux Software Market ...

Mesa 19.2 Released With Navi Support, Much Improved Intel Gallium3D

Phoronix - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 01:50
After a month worth of delays, Mesa 19.2 is now officially available as the latest quarterly feature update to this collection of open-source graphics driver components...

Fwupd Gaining Support For Synaptics/Conexant CX Audio Firmware Updating

Phoronix - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 01:29
Fwupd is gaining the ability to update firmware on Synaptics/Conexant CX audio devices commonly used by laptops...

Huawei's yet another Laptop lineup joins the Linux club! - gizmochina

Google News - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 00:53
Huawei's yet another Laptop lineup joins the Linux club!  gizmochina

The ongoing trade war between China and the U.S. has left Huawei scrambling for alternative suppliers for its products. The recently announced Mate 30 series ...

The Newest Version Of Zorin OS 15 Brings Linux And Open Source To The Classroom - Forbes

Google News - Wed, 09/25/2019 - 23:47
The Newest Version Of Zorin OS 15 Brings Linux And Open Source To The Classroom  Forbes

The same polish and ease-of-use from Zorin OS 15 is hitting the classroom with the brand new Zorin OS Education edition.

AMDGPU Linux 5.5 Changes Being Prepped With HDCP Support, LRU Bulk Moves Re-Enabled

Phoronix - Wed, 09/25/2019 - 23:36
While the Linux 5.4 merge window doesn't even end until this weekend, as is usual traditional with the DRM-Next cutoff having been weeks ago, the open-source DRM driver developers are already working on their changes for what will ultimately go into Linux 5.5. On the AMD side, the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver already has some interesting work accumulating...

An Early Look At The AMD EPYC Performance With The In-Development Linux 5.4 Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 09/25/2019 - 22:05
While the Linux 5.4 cycle just officially began last week and its feature merge window not even over until this weekend, given there are AMD EPYC load balancing improvements and many other kernel improvements in general, I was eager to fire up the in-development kernel on the EPYC 7002 "Rome" series to see how the performance is looking...

An Early Look At The AMD EPYC Performance With The In-Development Linux 5.4 Kernel - Phoronix

Google News - Wed, 09/25/2019 - 22:05
An Early Look At The AMD EPYC Performance With The In-Development Linux 5.4 Kernel  Phoronix

While the Linux 5.4 cycle just officially began last week and its feature merge window not even over until this weekend, given there are AMD EPYC load ...

Red Hat's CentOS 8 arrives: Here's what you get with it - ZDNet

Google News - Wed, 09/25/2019 - 21:52
Red Hat's CentOS 8 arrives: Here's what you get with it  ZDNet

The new "free" major Linux server operating system is here.

New CentOS Linux distro sips updates from RHEL codebase like an ever-flowing Stream - The Register

Google News - Wed, 09/25/2019 - 20:56
New CentOS Linux distro sips updates from RHEL codebase like an ever-flowing Stream  The Register

CentOS has told devs that they can now get stuck into Stream, a new Linux distro it built with code planned for the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise ...

ARMv8.6-A Brings BFloat16, GEMM & Other Enhancements

Phoronix - Wed, 09/25/2019 - 20:42
Arm has outlined their architecture enhancements being introduced in ARMv8.6-A as their 2019 ARMv8 architecture update...

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