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DragonFlyBSD To See Better Low-Level Lock Performance When Heavily Contested

Phoronix - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 19:17
Software running on DragonFlyBSD and making use of pthreads is set to see better performance around low-level locks when heavily contested...

Huawei Proposes In-Kernel Transactional Database For Security Purposes

Phoronix - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 18:28
While some Huawei engineers are currently facing criticism for submitting superfluous kernel patches in an effort to boost their own or the company's standing in the kernel community, other engineers are Huawei are working on more substantive kernel patches. Here's a rather peculiar new patch series out on Friday where a Huawei engineer is effectively proposing an in-kernel transactional database...

KDE Pushes More Plasma Wayland Improvements, Plug-in System For The Konsole

Phoronix - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 18:00
Even with Akademy 2021 this week as the annual KDE developer conference, thanks in part to it being a virtual event the KDE developers still managed to remain quite productive on new code changes...

How I helped my mom switch from Windows to Linux

opensource.com - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 15:00

The Large Hadron Collider is powered by Linux. Laptops on the International Space Station run on Linux.


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How to Migrate from CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux 8

Tecmint - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 13:37
The post How to Migrate from CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux 8 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Rocky Linux 8.4, codenamed Green Obsidian, is finally here! It was released on June 21, 2021, barely two months after the release of Rocky Linux 8.3 RC1 (Release Candidate 1) which is a beta

The post How to Migrate from CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux 8 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Coreboot Is Ridding Its Need For Intel's FSP-T Blob

Phoronix - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 03:45
Coreboot making progress on its temporary RAM initialization code (cache as RAM) means that its usage of the FSP-T binary blob is increasingly unnecessary...

Proton 6.3-5 Released With A Number Of Improvements For Windows Games On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 02:40
Valve and their partners have issued a new version of Proton for powering Steam Play to enjoy Windows games on Linux...

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