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PostgreSQL 15 Released With Better Sort Performance, Supports LZ4 & Zstd Compression

Phoronix - Thu, 10/13/2022 - 22:16
PostgreSQL 15 is out today as the newest major feature release to this leading open-source database solution...

FEX-Emu 2210 Eyes Emulating AVX On Arm, Various Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 10/13/2022 - 20:10
FEX-Emu as the open-source project aiming for speedy x86/x86_64 games and other software on Arm AArch64 including the likes of Steam has issued their newest feature update. FEX-Emu 2210 is today's newest release for this binary emulator and continues on a nice trajectory for being able to enjoy x86 64-bit binaries on modern Arm Linux systems...

Debian 14 Codenamed "Forky"

Phoronix - Thu, 10/13/2022 - 18:10
The upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 12 release is codenamed "Bookworm" and is expected to be released in 2023. Meanwhile Debian 13 will be out around 2025 and it was already announced under the Trixie codename. Now today it's been announced that Debian 14 come 2027 will also be known as the "Forky" release...

RadeonSI Driver Lands Multi-Slice Video Encoding For AVC/HEVC

Phoronix - Thu, 10/13/2022 - 17:00
AMD has been on a streak recently of improving their open-source video acceleration capabilities for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

LoongArch Picks Up New CPU Capabilities With Linux 6.1

Phoronix - Thu, 10/13/2022 - 16:00
While initial LoongArch CPU support merged in Linux 5.19, it was still in an immature state and since then missing features and functionality continue to be ironed out. With Linux 6.0 came LoongArch PCI support and other changes while for Linux 6.1 come additional features for this Chinese CPU architecture derived from MIPS64 and some elements of RISC-V...

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