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Google's Patches To Speed-Up Over-Committed Linux Guest VMs Are Looking Great

Phoronix - Fri, 06/09/2023 - 23:25
Google engineers have been working on Linux patches to improve the guest VM performance when the host encounters memory pressure or have over-committed too many guests. Similar patches already are used on Chrome OS and Google has been working to upstream the functionality under the mainline Linux kernel and have now provided some reference benchmark results...

Radeon R600g Driver Adds Experimental Support For Rusticl

Phoronix - Fri, 06/09/2023 - 20:52
While there is already RadeonSI driver support for the Rust OpenCL "Rusticl" implementation in Mesa since v23.1, merged now for Mesa 23.2 is experimental support for Rusticl with the older Radeon R600g for pre-GCN graphics cards...

Qt Creator 11 Beta Brings Integrated Terminal, GitHub Copilot

Phoronix - Fri, 06/09/2023 - 18:30
For developers fond of the Qt/C++ focused Qt Creator integrated development environment, today the Qt Group has published the first beta of this next IDE feature release...

NVIDIA 545 Linux Driver To Support Vulkan Apps With PRIME On Wayland

Phoronix - Fri, 06/09/2023 - 18:12
It's still some ways away with the NVIDIA 535 driver series currently in beta but with the NVIDIA 545 Linux driver series to succeed that there will finally be support for Vulkan games/apps running via PRIME for GPU offloading under Wayland...

Last Call For The Phoronix 19th Birthday Premium Sale

Phoronix - Fri, 06/09/2023 - 18:00
This is just a friendly reminder that if you wanted to participate in this week's Phoronix Premium special with Phoronix.com having turned 19 this week, that special sale ends this weekend...

Cisco Posts Rust-Written PuzzleFS File-System Driver For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 06/09/2023 - 17:50
PuzzleFS is a next-generation container file-system for Linux with fast image building, direct-mount support, and other container-optimized features being worked on by Cisco engineers. And it's written in Rust...

How to Generate, Encrypt and Decrypt Random Passwords in Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 06/09/2023 - 14:51
The post How to Generate, Encrypt and Decrypt Random Passwords in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this article, we will share some interesting command-line tools to generate random passwords and also how to encrypt and decrypt passwords with or without

The post How to Generate, Encrypt and Decrypt Random Passwords in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

JDK 21 Forked From Mainline For What Will Be The Next Java LTS Release

Phoronix - Fri, 06/09/2023 - 04:25
Today marks the ramp-down phase one point for JDK 21 where the OpenJDK code is forked from mainline for this de facto Java 21 implementation. Making OpenJDK 21 all the more exciting is this is going to be one of Oracle's bi-annual Long-Term Support (LTS) releases...

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