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Looking back on 30 years of Linux history with Red Hat's Richard Jones

Red Hat News - Wed, 08/18/2021 - 12:00

As part of that major milestone we asked Red Hatters who have been using or contributing to Linux since the early days about their experiences. Today we’re talking to Richard Jones who has been using Linux since the early 1990s, joining Red Hat in 2007. Richard is now a Senior Principal Software Engineer in Red Hat’s R&D Platform team.

Zink Now Supports OpenGL Compatibility Contexts - Allowing More Games/Apps To Work

Phoronix - Wed, 08/18/2021 - 12:00
In addition to Tuesday seeing the Zink sub-allocator merged for sharply improving the performance of this OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation within Mesa, the Zink Gallium3D code subsequently merged support for OpenGL compatibility contexts...

Maple Tree v2 Patches For The Linux Kernel - 13~840% Faster For Malloc Threads Test Case

Phoronix - Wed, 08/18/2021 - 06:52
Sent out last year was a "request for comments" on "Maple Tree" as a new data structure for the Linux kernel. The latest version of the Maple Tree patches were sent out today with mixed results but for where gains are being made they can be quite significant...

Zink Suballocator Lands In Mesa - "Over 1000%" Performance Increase For Some Games

Phoronix - Wed, 08/18/2021 - 02:42
Mesa's Zink Gallium3D code for implementing OpenGL-over-Vulkan can now run a heck of a lot faster with the newest Mesa 21.3 code...

Manjaro 21.1 Released With Better Btrfs Support, GNOME 40 Update

Phoronix - Wed, 08/18/2021 - 01:35
Manjaro 21.1 is now available as the latest stable version of this Arch Linux based operating system...

Microsoft Releases Updated Version Of Its CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 23:30
Microsoft has released an updated version of its CBL-Mariner Linux distribution as their platform within the company that is being used for various cloud and edge computing use-cases among other purposes...

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