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Modernization: Developing your code migration strategy

Red Hat News - Fri, 08/26/2022 - 12:00

This article is part of an ongoing series that has already covered quite a bit of ground, including:

Lutris 0.5.11 Released With Amazon Games Integration, Gamescope For NVIDIA R515+

Phoronix - Fri, 08/26/2022 - 03:45
Lutris as the open-source game manager that integrates with the likes of Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, and other game collections and emulators is out with a new update...

Intel Arc Graphics Running On Fully Open-Source Linux Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 08/26/2022 - 03:17
Intel's GPUs from the consumer desktop Arc Graphics hardware to the Intel Data Center Flex GPU Series "Arctic Sound M" and forthcoming Xe HPC Ponte Vecchio are built around fully open-source drivers. A common misconception or confusion I've heard many times over the past number of months has been questioning whether Intel's discrete GPU driver support on Linux is open-source or is closed-source, etc. Well, it's fully open-source aside from the usual firmware caveat and running on Linux. Here is some initial commentary with running the Intel Arc Graphics A380 on Linux!

Readfile System Call Revised For Efficiently Reading Small Files

Phoronix - Fri, 08/26/2022 - 00:30
Brought up back in 2020 was the readfile system call for efficiently reading small files with the intention of it being simple for reading small files such as those via sysfs, procfs, and similar file-systems. The readfile patches were re-based yesterday against the current Linux 6.0 state, leaving hope that the new system call might finally be sent in for the next kernel cycle...

FreeBSD 14.0 Planned For Release Next July

Phoronix - Thu, 08/25/2022 - 23:42
The FreeBSD release engineering team has published their initial release plans for FreeBSD 14.0 as well as follow-on FreeBSD 13.2 and 12.4 releases for the current stable series of this BSD operating system...

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