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PHP 8.0 RC1 Released

Phoronix - Fri, 10/02/2020 - 05:29
The first release candidate of the big PHP 8.0 is now available for testing...

Ghostbusters - Linux 5.10 To Bring Rewritten Spectre Mitigations For 64-bit ARM

Phoronix - Fri, 10/02/2020 - 03:00
Linux 5.10 is set to bring a major rework to the Spectre mitigation handling for the 64-bit ARM architecture...

Another Kernel Optimization Being Worked On That Can Help IO_uring Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 10/02/2020 - 01:36
It's always great starting off a new month seeing new work on low-level kernel optimizations...

Dell XPS With Intel Tiger Lake + Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Goes On Sale - Benchmarks Coming

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 23:00
When Intel announced 11th Gen "Tiger Lake" last month it wasn't clear how long it would be until seeing systems actually appear with these new processors. Fortunately, the new Dell XPS systems with Tiger Lake and Intel EVO certification are on sale beginning today with shipping dates reported to be later this month...

Mesa's Vulkan Software Implementation Now Known as Lavapipe

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 19:30
Mesa's Vulkan software implementation built atop LLVMpipe was developed as Vallium (Vulkan + Gallium3D) but has been renamed to Lavapipe within Mesa 20.3...

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