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Lighttpd 1.4.68 Brings Stronger TLS Defaults, KTLS Sendfile Support For Faster Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 01/05/2023 - 01:35
Lighttpd 1.4.68 was released on Tuesday as the newest version of this lightweight, high performance open-source web server...

Fedora 38 To Beef Up Its Compiler Fortification Defenses

Phoronix - Wed, 01/04/2023 - 22:00
In addition to Fedora 38 now allowing "no-omit-frame-pointer" to enhance profiling/debugging with possible performance costs, this next Fedora Linux release is also planning to use "_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3" compiler defenses to further bolster security...

AlmaLinux, CentOS Stream, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora & Ubuntu On AMD 4th Gen EPYC Genoa

Phoronix - Wed, 01/04/2023 - 20:30
Over the holidays some fun benchmarking was to be had with the dual AMD EPYC 9654 "Genoa" processors providing a combined 192 cores / 384 threads and seeing how various modern Linux distributions were competing for this flagship 4th Gen EPYC server configuration. Up on the testing block was AlmaLinux 9.1, CentOS Stream 9, Clear Linux 37930, Debian 12 Testing, Fedora Server 37, Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, Ubuntu 22.10, and Ubuntu 23.04 daily.

RADV Lands A Few More Improvements To Reduce CPU Overhead

Phoronix - Wed, 01/04/2023 - 20:00
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team has landed a few patches into Mesa 23.0 for further reducing the CPU overhead of the Vulkan driver's draw path...

Intel Adds "Emerald Rapids" Support To The GCC 13 Compiler

Phoronix - Wed, 01/04/2023 - 19:19
Since GCC 11 there has been support for AMX and the upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPU features, which has been further improved in the open-source compiler over the past two years. GCC 13 meanwhile as the next GNU Compiler Collection release is bringing Meteor Lake and Sierra Forest, Grand Ridge, and Granite Rapids. Basic enablement of Intel's Emerald Rapids meanwhile was merged yesterday for GCC 13 too...

Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0.20221222 Linux Distro Now Allows Hibernation, More Packages

Phoronix - Wed, 01/04/2023 - 19:03
Microsoft released CBL-Mariner 2.0.20221222 on Tuesday as their first update of 2023 for their in-house Linux distribution that is used for a variety of purposes within the company from Azure to other behind-the-scenes Linux OS use...

GNOME's Mutter Now Allows Building Without XWayland - Nearing Optional X11

Phoronix - Wed, 01/04/2023 - 18:47
GNOME's Mutter now allows disabling XWayland support at build-time if so desired. This is part of the broader GNOME effort for making X11 support optional and ultimately allowing for a modern Wayland-only environment if so desired and without carrying legacy X11 cruft...

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