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FreeBSD Community Survey Confirms ZFS Is Their Most Valued Server Feature

Phoronix - Thu, 06/13/2024 - 05:11
The FreeBSD Foundation has published the results of the FreeBSD Community Survey that reveal interesting insights about FreeBSD usage and its users...

Valve Rolls Out Proton 9.0-2 With Many Fixes For Running More Games On Steam Play

Phoronix - Thu, 06/13/2024 - 03:24
Proton 9.0-2 is out this afternoon as the Valve/CodeWeavers downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games under Linux within the Steam client...

Safety-Critical Rust Consortium Announced

Phoronix - Thu, 06/13/2024 - 00:34
In aiming to make the Rust programming language more suitable for safety-critical software like within automobiles, aviation, and other industries, the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium was announced today...

FreeBSD 14.1 vs. FreeBSD 14.0 Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen Threadripper

Phoronix - Wed, 06/12/2024 - 22:36
Debuting last week was FreeBSD 14.1 with performance improvements and more. Given there being some performance optimizations and other upgrades like a more recent LLVM Clang compiler by default, I've begun running some benchmarks of this newest FreeBSD stable release. In today's article is a quick comparison of FreeBSD 14.1 vs. FreeBSD 14.0 performance using an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-core processor within the System76 Thelio Major workstation.

AMD Fast CPPC To Be Merged For Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Wed, 06/12/2024 - 21:50
The AMD Fast CPPC feature enablement for the "amd_pstate" driver has been submitted to the power management subsystem ahead of next month's Linux 6.11 merge window...

openSUSE Leap 15.6 Release - Adds Cockpit, Linux 6.4 & Other Updates

Phoronix - Wed, 06/12/2024 - 21:21
OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 is now officially available for this community Linux distribution release aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 6. With Leap 15.6 comes the inclusion of the Cockpit web administration software and many software updates...

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