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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Performing Well, Great Benefit To Newer Intel Xeon & AMD EPYC Servers

Phoronix - Tue, 06/07/2022 - 21:00
Last month RHEL 9.0 reached GA as the newest major update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Since then I've been trying out RHEL 9.0 on a few servers. To little surprise, especially for latest-generation Intel Xeon Scalable and AMD EPYC servers, RHEL 9.0 is offering significant uplift compared to the existing RHEL8 series. Here are osme Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 benchmarks comparing the performance to RHEL 8.6.

SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 Released - Switches To NVIDIA's Open Kernel Driver, Adds AMD SEV-ES

Phoronix - Tue, 06/07/2022 - 20:00
In kicking off SUSECON, SUSE has announced the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 4. Notable with SLE 15 SP4, SUSE is already switching to using NVIDIA's open-source GPU kernel-mode driver that NVIDIA open-sourced last month and is under active development and has a long road ahead before it's even feasible for upstreaming into the mainline kernel...

Intel Begins Adding Meteor Lake Support To Coreboot

Phoronix - Tue, 06/07/2022 - 18:05
Intel Meteor Lake as the successor to Raptor Lake has begun seeing Coreboot enablement work by Intel engineers...

Arm Looking To Make It Easier To Run Docker On AArch64 Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 06/07/2022 - 17:54
While Docker can already run on AArch64 Linux, the mainline Linux kernel's default configuration "defconfig" lacks a few features for allowing it to run out-of-the-box. An Arm engineer is proposing adjusting those defaults to make it more easily/straight-forward to run Docker on 64-bit Arm...

SDL Adds A DirectX 12 Renderer Backend

Phoronix - Tue, 06/07/2022 - 17:02
Somewhat surprisingly, the open-source SDL library that is widely used by games for cross-platform handling and abstracting of various software interfaces has added a Microsoft DirectX 12 renderer...

Ikey Doherty Returning To Work Full-Time On Serpent OS Linux Distribution

Phoronix - Tue, 06/07/2022 - 15:00
Ikey Doherty started the Solus Linux distribution then disappeared and wrote an open letter on Phoronix about his absence, also was employed by Intel for a year to work on their Clear Linux distribution, had a brief stint starting a game/software development company, and then started the Serpent OS Linux distribution. He's still been working on Serpent OS but then was working full-time elsewhere but now has decided to return full-time to working on his latest Linux distribution...

How to Collaborate Documents Using ONLYOFFICE Workspace

Tecmint - Tue, 06/07/2022 - 12:57
The post How to Collaborate Documents Using ONLYOFFICE Workspace first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If what you want is to build a collaborative workspace on your Linux server, the most evident options might be Nextcloud, ownCloud, and Seafile. These solutions let you store and share files in one

The post How to Collaborate Documents Using ONLYOFFICE Workspace first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

macOS 13 Adding Ability To Use Rosetta In ARM Linux VMs For Speedy x86_64 Linux Binaries

Phoronix - Tue, 06/07/2022 - 06:44
In addition to announcing the M2 SoC, Apple used its WWDC keynote to also announce macOS 13 "Ventura". One of the interesting technical changes with macOS 13 is the ability to use Apple's Rosetta software for speedy execution of Linux x86_64 binaries running on ARM Linux VMs from Apple Silicon...

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