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Facebook, Twitter Proposing CentOS Hyperscale SIG With Newer Packages + Other Changes

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 13:09
Adding to the changes abound at CentOS beyond CentOS 8 going EOL at year's end to focus instead on CentOS Stream feeding into the future RHEL, the likes of Facebook and Twitter are now proposing a Hyperscale special interest group for this RHEL-based platform...

How to Install Different PHP (5.6, 7.x and 8.0) Versions in Ubuntu

Tecmint - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 13:05

PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open-source, popular general-purpose scripting language that is widely-used and best suited for developing websites and web-based applications. It is a server-side scripting language that can

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Intel Rolls Out 10nm Pentium/Celeron CPUs, Previews Rocket Lake

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 05:30
Intel's virtual CES press conference took place today. Here are the highlights from 10nm Pentium Silver and Celeron processors to a preview of Rocket Lake and forthcoming 11th Gen Core H processors.

Clang LTO Support Looks Like It Could Land For Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 04:18
The support for Clang LTO of the Linux kernel for link-time optimizations when using that GCC alternative compiler looks like it will land with Linux 5.12...

Fedora 34 Looking To Tweak Default zRAM Configuration

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 03:34
Last year with Fedora 33 zRAM was switched on by default. The setup was that using a compressed zRAM drive for swap space leads to better performance and in turn a better user experience. Some spins of Fedora have been using swap-on-zRAM by default going back many releases while since F33 it's been used for all spins. Now with Fedora 34 the configuration is being further refined...

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