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What’s New in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9

Tecmint - Mon, 05/23/2022 - 14:08
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Great news for RedHat lovers! Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 is now generally available (GA). This announcement was made on 18th, May 2022. The latest release is crafted to meet the needs of

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Modernization: Why is it important?

Red Hat News - Mon, 05/23/2022 - 12:00

Modernizing an existing codebase—or often a portfolio of them—is a complex technical endeavor. In the enterprise environment, there are challenges beyond the technical that can hinder or halt modernization.

Linux 5.18 Released With Intel SDSi, New CPU & GPU Features

Phoronix - Mon, 05/23/2022 - 04:14
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.18 on-time as the newest stable kernel release...

Linux 5.19 Will Be Super Exciting For Intel Customers, Many Other Features Expected

Phoronix - Sun, 05/22/2022 - 19:04
Unless Linus Torvalds has reservations today about the changes to land in the kernel this past week and decides to issue an extra RC, Linux 5.18 is expected to be christened as stable today and that in turn will mark the start of the Linux 5.19 merge window. Based on the "-next" activity, here is a look at the many changes expected to be merged for Linux 5.19...

Radeon RADV Driver Readied For Vulkan's Upcoming Mesh Shading Extension

Phoronix - Sun, 05/22/2022 - 18:20
As I've written about since last year the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has been working on experimental mesh shader support and more recently in Mesa Git code around task shaders for RADV have been landing. Timur Kristóf who is contracted by Valve to work on the open-source Linux graphics stack has been working on the mesh/task shader support in preparation for an upcoming cross-vendor Vulkan extension around mesh shading...

NVIDIA's List Of Known Wayland Issues From SLI To VDPAU, VR & More

Phoronix - Sun, 05/22/2022 - 17:28
With NVIDIA's recent R515 Linux driver beta that ushered in their new open-source GPU kernel driver in development, NVIDIA posted a list of their known Wayland implementation issues/shortcomings affecting users...

PostgreSQL 15 Performance Improving With Faster Sorting, Many New Features

Phoronix - Sun, 05/22/2022 - 16:51
The PostgreSQL 15 database server will be releasing in a few months and is yet another major release to this open-source relational database system when it comes to performance...

Zhaoxin Tries Again To Upstream Their "LuJiaZui" CPU Support Within GCC

Phoronix - Sun, 05/22/2022 - 16:36
Back in 2019 Chinese CPU company Zhaoxin introduced "LuJiaZui" as their 16nm x86 CPU design for use from laptops up through servers. LuJiaZui is much improved from their earlier chips though still well behind AMD and Intel performance. Proper GCC compiler support for LuJiaZui was sent out again this week after their previous upstreaming attempt hadn't made it into GCC 12 due to being late in the cycle...

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