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Linux 5.14 Improving Its Distributed Lock Manager To Allow Message Re-Transmission

Phoronix - Sun, 07/04/2021 - 18:04
The Linux kernel's Distributed Lock Manager as a general purpose DLM for kernel and user-space applications with cluster computing systems is seeing a useful reliability improvement with Linux 5.14...

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opensource.com - Sun, 07/04/2021 - 15:01
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Linux 5.14 With EXT4 Adds Interface To Help Prevent Information Leakage From The Journal

Phoronix - Sun, 07/04/2021 - 08:32
The EXT4 file-system updates have been sent in for the ongoing Linux 5.14 merge window...

CXL Bring-Up Continues - More Infrastructure For Linux 5.14, "More Meat" For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 23:54
Intel open-source engineers continue working on the bring-up around Compute Express Link (CXL) as the new open standard interconnect built off PCIe aiming to empower next-generation servers...

XFS Sees A Lot Of Cleanups For Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 21:00
The XFS file-system continues seeing a lot of work cleaning up the kernel driver code as well as some minor feature improvements heading into Linux 5.14...

New/Updated Benchmarks For June From GravityMark To L4D2 Vulkan, Updated Neural Networks

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 19:13
During the past month were a number of updated Phoronix Test Suite test profiles made available on OpenBenchmarking.org as part of our open-source cross-platform benchmarking framework...

Linux 5.14 POWERs Up The Microwatt Soft CPU Core

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 18:24
The POWER architecture updates have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 5.14 merge window with a few changes worth pointing out this round...

Darktable 3.6 Released For This Free Alternative To Adobe Lightroom

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 18:08
Darktable 3.6 is out as this summer's feature update to this open-source RAW photography software package and a great alternative to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom...

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