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Trinity Desktop R14.0.10 Released For Those Still Loving KDE 3

Phoronix - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 08:31
For those still having fond memories of the KDE 3.5 desktop, the Trinity Desktop Environment continues to be maintained in 2021 as a long-running fork from KDE 3.5 with security/maintenance fixes and other minor enhancements to the desktop environment...

IO_uring Squeezes More Performance With Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 06:08
Merged as part of the block subsystem changes for the Linux 5.13 were the usual assortment of enhancements to the exciting IO_uring. With this next kernel there is yet even better performance out of this morning Linux I/O interface...

Linux 5.13 To Allow Zstd Compressed Modules, Zstd Update Pending With Faster Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 05/03/2021 - 23:35
Adding to the variety of places where the Linux kernel supports making use of Zstd compression, kernel modules moving forward can now enjoy size reductions with Zstd...

Wayland-Protocols 1.21 Released With XDG_Activation, Staging Replaces Unstable

Phoronix - Mon, 05/03/2021 - 21:18
Released on Friday was a new version of Wayland-Protocols, the collection of protocol specifications for Wayland...

Microsoft Prepping Linux For Running As 64-bit ARM Hyper-V Guest

Phoronix - Mon, 05/03/2021 - 20:34
While Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor and their Azure cloud has largely been x86_64 focused, with the Linux 5.13 kernel they are moving further for supporting Linux as a ARM64 Hyper-V guest...

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