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Alpine Linux 3.13 Brings Official Cloud Images, Much Faster Node.js, Cloud-Init Support

Phoronix - Fri, 01/15/2021 - 01:25
Alpine Linux, the distribution popular for container environments due to its lightweight nature with employing Musl libc and Busybox while being designed for simplicity, security, and efficiency, is out with version 3.13. With Alpine Linux 3.13 the distribution is ramping up its cloud ambitions...

Wine 6.0 Released With A Plethora Of Improvements For Windows Software On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 01/15/2021 - 00:00
Wine 6.0 stable is now officially available as the annual stable release for this open-source project allowing Windows games and applications to run on Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like platforms...

CloudLinux Announces AlmaLinux As Their 1:1 RHEL Fork, Alternative To CentOS

Phoronix - Thu, 01/14/2021 - 23:19
Following the surprise announcement last month that CentOS 8 will be discontinued at EOY2021 with CentOS Stream to be the new upstream for RHEL, several different organizations and developers have announced their intentions to create new community-oriented, open-source rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that will be free. One of the promising announcements so far has been from CloudLinux and today they have announced it as AlmaLinux...

GNOME Shell Merges Port Of Extensions App + Portal To GTK4

Phoronix - Thu, 01/14/2021 - 22:56
With GTK4 out and stabilizing well, more GNOME components are working to migrate to this updated toolkit as part of the GNOME 40 development cycle...

Following LTO, Linux Kernel Patches Updated For PGO To Yield Faster Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 01/14/2021 - 22:09
Clang LTO for the Linux kernel to provide link-time optimizations for yielding more performant kernel binaries (plus Clang CFI support) looks like it will land for Linux 5.12. With that compiler optimization feature appearing squared away, Google engineers are also working on Clang PGO support for the Linux kernel to exploit profile guided optimizations for further enhancing the kernel performance...

GCC 11 Is Moving Closer But Still Challenged By Many Regressions

Phoronix - Thu, 01/14/2021 - 20:39
GCC 11 is slated to enter "Stage 4" development at the end of this weekend after which only regression and documentation fixes will be permitted. The first GCC 11 stable release should be out in 2~3 months, but at the moment there is an increasing number of P1 regressions that are of the highest priority...

Flatpak 1.10 Released With More Efficient Repo Format

Phoronix - Thu, 01/14/2021 - 19:19
Flatpak 1.10 is out this morning as the stable release following the Flatpak 1.9 development series for this Linux app sandboxing / distribution technology...

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