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Oracle Releases UEK R6U2 Kernel With New Slab Memory Controller

Phoronix - Thu, 04/01/2021 - 06:45
Oracle continues advancing their "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel" as the company's modified Linux kernel build offered to Oracle Linux users as an alternative to its Red Hat Compatible Kernel for their RHEL-based OS. Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 Update 2 is out to end Q1'2021 with various new features...

GIMP 2.10.24 Released For This Open-Source Adobe Photoshop Alternative

Phoronix - Thu, 04/01/2021 - 05:02
GIMP 3.0 still isn't out yet but the GIMP 2.10 stable series continues seeing new point releases with additional feature work until that GTK3 version of this image editor / Photoshop alternative is ready...

Initial Benchmarks Of Fedora Workstation 34 Beta On AMD Ryzen + Radeon

Phoronix - Thu, 04/01/2021 - 03:00
Following last week's release of the Fedora 34 beta I've begun trying out this latest Fedora Linux build on a variety of test systems. Here are some preliminary figures of Fedora 34 against Fedora 33 stock and updated configurations when running on an AMD Ryzen 5000 series system with Radeon graphics.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Beta Released With New Features, Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 04/01/2021 - 00:38
Red Hat is ending out the quarter by issuing their first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4...

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