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Linux 6.5 To Bring Better NUMA Awareness For The NFSD/RDMA Server

Phoronix - Fri, 06/23/2023 - 22:30
Among the early pull requests already submitted for the Linux 6.5 merge window that is expected to open next week are the Linux NFS server (NFSD) changes. Notable this cycle is the NFSD and RDMA server code having better NUMA awareness...

SDDM 0.20 Display Manager Released With Experimental Wayland Greeter

Phoronix - Fri, 06/23/2023 - 21:45
SDDM as the QML-based X11 and Wayland display manager commonly used on KDE systems and elsewhere is finally out with a new release...

GNOME Lands Nice Optimization For Wayland Gaming

Phoronix - Fri, 06/23/2023 - 18:25
Merged this week into the GNOME Mutter compositor codebase is what should be a beneficial optimization for those enjoying Linux gaming under the GNOME Wayland session...

Mesa Turns To BLAKE3 For Faster Vulkan Shader Hashing

Phoronix - Fri, 06/23/2023 - 18:11
Mesa has switched from SHA1 to BLAKE3 for its shader hashing to deliver better performance...

FLAC 1.4.3 Released With More Optimizations, Drops PowerPC-Specific Code

Phoronix - Fri, 06/23/2023 - 17:42
FLAC 1.4.3 is out today as the first update to this Xiph.Org royalty-free, lossless audio codec since last October...

Application modernization: Promote, observe and process

Red Hat News - Fri, 06/23/2023 - 08:00
The very act of modernizing means not only is there an application feedback loop to improve, there will be a similar loop running around infrastructure and security compliance that allows the application to operate in its current state in a production environment. Let’s talk a bit about what this might look like and some challenges to keep in mind when modernizing. Importance of the operations feedback loop In most legacy environments, a separate operations team is responsible for the operations feedback loop. In spite of movements such as the site reliability engineering movement (SRE

Fedora May Make It Easier To Switch To systemd-boot, Making A GRUB-Free System

Phoronix - Fri, 06/23/2023 - 05:30
A change proposal that hopes to take place for Fedora 39 would make it easier to have an optionally GRUB-free system by instead performing a clean install with systemd-boot for booting on EFI platforms...

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