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This Coin-sized Linux Computer Is Available for Just $69  ExtremeTech

Take your Linux tools with you on the go with this VoCore2 Mini Linux Computer Bundle for just $69—over 10% off ...

Not included as part of our original EPYC 7742 / EPYC 7002 "Rome" Linux benchmarks was the NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) developed by NASA. While an MPI testing favorite, there were build issues with the older version of NPB packaged by the Phoronix Test Suite. But with recently having updated that test profile against the latest NPB upstream, here are some results for the EPYC 7742 2P, EPYC 7601 2P, and dual Xeon Platinum 8280 benchmark results. Separately, there's also results now for NeatBench 5 with this video editing plug-in test case now part of the Phoronix Test Suite...

Red Hat's David Airlie has been refocusing efforts recently on improving the state of the LLVMpipe driver that implements OpenGL / OpenGL ES on top of CPUs using LLVM. In the past few weeks he's been wiring up more GL4 / GLES 3.1 extensions and this morning the latest achievement is supporting OpenGL compute shaders!..

Is Linux Really Immune to Viruses and Malware? Here's the Truth  MakeUseOf

You've heard that Linux isn't really troubled by viruses and malware. But why is this? And, more importantly, is it true?

The Schedutil CPU frequency scaling governor has been around for a few years and has gotten better over time but in our own tests we still find it frequently not being as competitive to the "performance" governor and others. However, in the future Schedutil might become the default and perhaps only governor...

Eventually "Schedutil" Could Replace Linux's Existing CPU Scaling Governors  Phoronix

The Schedutil CPU frequency scaling governor has been around for a few years and has gotten better over time but in our own tests we still find it frequently not ...

Environment variables are global settings for your Linux, Mac, or Windows computer, stored for the system shell to use when executing commands. Many are set by default during installation or user creation.

For instance, your home directory is set as an environment variable when you log in. How it looks in PowerShell depends on your operating system.

On Windows:

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Not too long ago, I spoke at a tech event in the Netherlands to an audience mostly made up of sysadmins. One of my topics was how sysadmins can increase the value they deliver to the organization they work for. I believe that among the most important factors for delivering value is for everyone to know the overall organization's priorities and goals, as well as the priorities and goals of the organization's development teams.

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"We invented blogging, we invented podcasting, we invented the LIKE button…"

Rob Malda is only half-joking when he makes these claims in the closing minutes of my new documentary, Geeks in Cyberspace. Together with his friends Jeff Bates, Nate Oostendorp, and Kurt Demaagd, Malda helped usher in our present age of social media, inventing now-familiar conventions that we use every day on Reddit, Wikipedia, Facebook, and elsewhere.

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Next year's GNU Compiler Collection 10 (GCC 10) compiler release is doing away with support for IBM's Cell Broadband Engine SPU support...

10 Best Rufus Alternatives for Windows, Linux, and macOS  Beebom

We have put together a list of 10 best Rufus alternatives for Windows, macOS, Ubuntu and other Linux distros. Find a suitable alternative from our list.

While I was studying computer science, the notion of open source was much argued over. Our university professors found the idea playful but approached it from an old-school way where they could not fully grasp how it would fit into a business landscape. We students, on the other hand, found the open source movement empowering. Not only did it provide us with reliable and free tools, it also gave us the chance of contributing to a global community from our small classroom in Algeria.

As x86_64 hardware sees improvements in the area of CPU die size reduction, Red Hat has continued to work with our partners to better enable world class performance. Recently, AMD released its ROME line of processors, known as the AMD Epyc 7002 Series. With a die size of 7nm, AMD has achieved several new performance world records and many of these results have been with workloads running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 and RHEL 8. 

While atomic mode-setting has been around for several years now and to provide a modern mode-setting interface that can test modes prior to the actual operation and reduce possible flickering during mode-setting events and also being faster, the common xf86-video-modesetting driver has at least temporarily disabled the support by default...

Linux for Chromebook may see a choice in distro in the future  Ausdroid

After the successful launch of Linux for Chromebooks which caught the attention of a lot of developers, it seems there's been a push for more. A recent ...

Linux for Chromebook may offer a choice in distro in the future  Ausdroid

After the successful launch of Linux for Chromebooks which caught the attention of a lot of developers, it seems there's been a push for more. A recent ...

Linux Mint team shares the first new features due in next version  Neowin

Clem Lefebvre, head of the Linux Mint project, has shared some of the first details of the upcoming Linux Mint 19.3 update. He said that the new upgrade is ...

Following the recent hype of Intel's Windows graphics driver introducing integer mode scaling support, their open-source Linux graphics driver is receiving similar treatment with nearest-neighbor integer scaling support...

Linux Mint 19.3 Slated for Release on Christmas with HiDPI Improvements, More  Softpedia News

It will be based on the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system.

Go 1.13 was released today as Google's latest update to their language and run-time/toolchain...