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Amazon Linux 2022 Benchmarks - Offers Competitive Performance Against Ubuntu, CentOS

Phoronix - Mon, 11/29/2021 - 19:00
Last week Amazon Web Services released Amazon Linux 2022 in preview form and since then I've been trying out their new cloud-optimized Linux distribution. It's been working out well on AWS (to no surprise) but also great was the level of performance provided by this now-Fedora-based distribution.

Anyone can compile open source code in these three simple steps

opensource.com - Mon, 11/29/2021 - 16:00

There are many ways to install software, but you get an option not available elsewhere with open source: You can compile the code yourself. The classic three-step process to compile source code:


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A Step-By-Step Guide to Installing Xubuntu 20.04 Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 11/29/2021 - 12:50
The post A Step-By-Step Guide to Installing Xubuntu 20.04 Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Xubuntu is a popular lightweight Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu. It ships with an Xfce desktop environment which is light, stable, and highly configurable. Being a lightweight distribution, Xubuntu is a perfect

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Linux 5.16-rc3 Released With Alder Lake ITMT Fix, Other Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 11/29/2021 - 06:50
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.16-rc3 with plenty of fixes included. With it being US Thanksgiving week, he's also having fun with this kernel by having adjusted the codename to "Gobble Gobble" in reference to turkeys...

PHP 8.1 Benchmarks - Continuing The Nice Performance Trajectory

Phoronix - Sun, 11/28/2021 - 22:13
PHP 8.1 released on Thursday as the latest major feature release for this programming language. In this article are some benchmarks of PHP 8.1.0 on an AMD EPYC powered Linux server compared to prior releases going as far back as PHP 5.6.

Linux 5.17 To Boast Latency Optimization For AF_UNIX Sockets

Phoronix - Sun, 11/28/2021 - 20:14
Net-next has been queuing a number of enticing performance optimizations ahead of the Linux 5.17 merge window kicking off around the start of the new year. Covered already was a big TCP optimization and a big improvement for csum_partial() that is used in the network code for checksum computation. The latest optimization is improving the AF_UNIX code path for those using AF_UNIX sockets for local inter-process communication...

Facebook/Meta Tackling Transparent Page Placement For Tiered-Memory Linux Systems

Phoronix - Sun, 11/28/2021 - 18:43
Back during the Linux 5.15 cycle Intel contributed an improvement for tiered memory systems where less used memory pages could be demoted to slower tiers of memory storage. But once demoted that kernel infrastructure didn't have a means of promoting those demoted pages back to the faster memory tiers should they become hot again, though now Facebook/Meta engineers have been working on such functionality...

Godot 4.0 Progressing On Its Multiplayer Capabilities

Phoronix - Sun, 11/28/2021 - 13:00
In addition to Vulkan support and a lot of graphics renderer work happening for Godot 4.0, adding to the expansive feature list is improved multi-player capabilities...

RenderDoc 1.17 Released For This Leading Open-Source Graphics Debugging Tool

Phoronix - Sun, 11/28/2021 - 02:54
RenderDoc 1.17 released this week as the newest version of this leading cross-platform, cross-API graphics debugging utility...

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