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UBIFS To Default To Zstd Compressed File-System With Linux 5.13+

Phoronix - Thu, 05/06/2021 - 12:00
Adding to the growing list of changes for Linux 5.13 is the UBIFS file-system now using Zstd for file-system compression by default...

Device Mapper Gets Some Nice Improvements With Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Thu, 05/06/2021 - 08:11
The kernel's Device Mapper (DM) code with Linux 5.13 has some improvements worth mentioning this cycle...

Pyston 2.2 Released For A Faster Python While Facebook Releases Cinder

Phoronix - Thu, 05/06/2021 - 05:52
Pyston 2.2 is out today as the latest version of this performant Python implementation. Separately, Facebook has introduced Cinder as a new incubator project providing a speedy Python JIT implementation...

Mesa 21.1 Released With RADV Variable Rate Shading, More Intel Vulkan Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 05/06/2021 - 01:54
Mesa 21.1 is available today as the latest quarterly feature release to this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. There are many features to show with this new release and it even managed to release on-schedule...

GCC, GNU Toolchain Finally Working To Establish CI/CD For Better Reliability

Phoronix - Thu, 05/06/2021 - 01:39
For a project as large and complex as the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) one would reasonably have assumed that it would have setup continuous integration / continuous delivery support years ago for helping to ensure the reliability of this widely-used open-source compiler and the GNU Toolchain at large. But that's actually only happening now in 2021...

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