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Redis 7.0 Is Near With "Significant Performance Optimizations"

Phoronix - Tue, 02/01/2022 - 03:16
The first release candidate of Redis 7.0 was made available today. Getting us excited about this updated in-memory key-value database are "significant performance optimizations" among other improvements...

NVIDIA 470.103.01 Linux Driver Brings RTX 2050 / MX 570 / MX 550 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 02/01/2022 - 02:19
While we are awaiting the stable debut of the new NVIDIA 510 Linux driver series, NVIDIA's long-lived 470 series driver production branch has been updated...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Integrating systemd-oomd For Improving Low Memory Handling

Phoronix - Mon, 01/31/2022 - 22:05
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is going to be making use of systemd-oomd for aiming to improve the experience when out of memory or under heavy memory pressure on the Linux distribution...

KDE's Falkon Browser Sees First Major Update In Nearly Three Years

Phoronix - Mon, 01/31/2022 - 21:38
Falkon as the KDE/Qt-focused open-source web browser is out with Falkon 3.2 as its first major update in nearly three years...

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Linux Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 01/31/2022 - 20:14
AMD recently launched the Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card for the $199 USD price point. While built on the current-generation RDNA2 architecture, this graphics card was widely panned for its price while only offering 4GB of video memory, limited to PCIe x4 bandwidth, and performance similar to the years-old Polaris GPUs. While all the major benchmarks online to this point have been under Windows, here is a look at how the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is performing under Linux.

Intel Revs New Linux Patches Providing For Shadow Stacks For User-Space

Phoronix - Mon, 01/31/2022 - 19:08
For years Intel has been working on Linux patches for supporting their Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) with Indirect Branch Tracking and Shadow Stack support. It's been in the works for years and through many revisions while now they are pursuing a new route and focusing just on the Shadow Stack user-space functionality...

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