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Blender 2.90 Released With Intel Embree Usage, Broader NVIDIA OptiX Support

Phoronix - Tue, 09/01/2020 - 02:03
Blender 2.90 is out as a huge feature update to this widely-used, cross-platform and open-source 3D modeling solution...

Canonical + SUSE Engineers Call For More Extensible Linux System Calls Moving Forward

Phoronix - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 23:52
Aleksa Sarai of SUSE and Christian Brauner of Canonical presented at last week's Linux Plumbers Conference with a call for more extensible system calls moving forward in aiming to enhance the Linux user-space API...

Red Hat Has Been Working On "stalld" As A Thread Stall Detector + Booster

Phoronix - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 22:11
Red Hat engineers in recent weeks began working on a new project called "starved" though recently renamed to "stalld". The stalld service is for serving as a Linux thread stall detector...

Linux Receiving Generic Casefolding Implementation For File-Systems

Phoronix - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 21:14
In making for easier code re-use among file-systems and allowing a unified implementation to focus on a single code-base for optimizations moving forward, a generic case-folding implementation for Linux file-systems is being prepared for mainline...

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