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The Unified Path Ahead For Building SUSE Linux Enterprise + openSUSE Leap

Phoronix - Fri, 01/22/2021 - 02:06
Red Hat hasn't been the only major enterprise Linux distribution shifting around their pieces with regards to how RHEL is formed with moving to CentOS Stream as its future upstream. Over the past year especially openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise having been moving closer together with the source trees now being more closely aligned between Leap and "SLE". SUSE has published an insightful blog post series detailing the prior way that openSUSE Tumbleweed and Leap tied in with SUSE Linux Enterprise and then the direction they have been shifting...

Netgate Announces pfSense Plus With Greater Divergence From pfSense

Phoronix - Fri, 01/22/2021 - 00:44
Netgate has announced pfSense as a rebranded and improved edition of this popular BSD-based firewall/network OS platform...

More OpenGL Threading Improvements Land For Mesa 21.1

Phoronix - Thu, 01/21/2021 - 21:54
Even in 2021 longtime open-source AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák isn't done optimizing OpenGL for delivering the best possible performance with the Radeon graphics driver. Marek's latest work includes more OpenGL threading enhancements and other work seemingly targeted at SPECViewPerf workloads...

Ubuntu 21.04 To Stick With GNOME 3.38 Desktop

Phoronix - Thu, 01/21/2021 - 20:38
While Ubuntu normally ships with the latest GNOME desktop as of release time, April's release of Ubuntu 21.04 will not be shipping with GNOME 40 but sticking to GNOME 3.38...

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