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Haiku OS Continues Making Progress On RISC-V, Adds Stack Protection

Phoronix - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 18:35
The Haiku open-source operating system inspired by BeOS continues advancing with work ranging from their hardware support and low-level kernel features up through user-interface work...

Wasmer 2.0 WebAssembly Runtime Is Near With Much Faster Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 17:48
WASM3 v0.5 released this week for that WebAssembly interpreter that claims to be the fastest. The Wasmer WebAssembly runtime for WASI/EmScripten meanwhile released its initial 2.0 release candidates this week where it's been upping the performance...

Atari VCS Controller Support Added To SDL2

Phoronix - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 17:33
Ahead of the long-awaited Atari VCS game console launching this month, the SDL2 library has added the mapping for the Linux game console's controllers...

How to Install a Lightweight Bodhi Linux 6.0

Tecmint - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 16:20
The post How to Install a Lightweight Bodhi Linux 6.0 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Bodhi GNU/Linux is a Ubuntu-based distribution designed especially for Desktop computing and is best known for its elegant and lightweight nature. The Distribution philosophy is to provide a minimal base system that can be

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Set and use environment variables in FreeDOS

opensource.com - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 15:01

A useful feature in almost every command-line environment is the environment variable. Some of these variables allow you to control the behavior or features of the command line, and other variables simply allow you to store data that you might need to reference later. Environment variables are also used in FreeDOS.


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Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 3.0 With Even Better Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 15:00
Arm has released version 3.0 of its encoder for Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC), the lossy compression algorithm popular with OpenGL (ES) and Vulkan that is royalty-free and available through official extensions...

Optimize Java serverless functions in Kubernetes

opensource.com - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 15:00

A faster startup and smaller memory footprint always matter in Kubernetes due to the expense of running thousands of application pods and the cost savings of doing it with fewer worker nodes and other resources. Memory is more important than throughput on containerized microservices on Kubernetes because:


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Supporting a teammate through a cancer diagnosis

Red Hat News - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 12:00

According to the American Cancer Society, roughly 4,950 new cases get diagnosed each day, in the United States alone. No matter what type or stage, cancer is a devastating disease that has an impact on not just the individual diagnosed, but also their family, friends and colleagues. The sad reality is that at some point in your career, you may be in the challenging position of either navigating a cancer diagnosis or supporting a friend or colleague with their cancer journey. 

Chrome 92 Beta Released With File Handling API, Other Developer Additions

Phoronix - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 08:36
Following last week's stable release of Chrome 91, Google has now promoted Chrome 92 to beta...

FUTEX2 Linux Patches Updated To Support Variable-Sized Futexes

Phoronix - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 05:46
One of the elusive kernel patch series we have been eager to see for the mainline Linux kernel has just been spun up a fourth time...

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