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FreeBSD Is Off To A Solid Start For 2020

Phoronix - Mon, 04/13/2020 - 12:02
This weekend the FreeBSD project published their quarterly status report concerning Q1'2020 and the progress they made on many fronts...

Linux 5.7-rc1 Kernel Released

Phoronix - Mon, 04/13/2020 - 05:07
Following the two week long merge window, Linus Torvalds has announced an Easter day kernel release in the form of the Linux 5.7-rc1 test candidate...

Linux 5.7 Will Let You Setup A Swap File Over A Network With SMB3/Samba

Phoronix - Mon, 04/13/2020 - 02:19
A last minute feature coming into the Linux 5.7 kernel on its last day of the merge window is experimental support for allowing a remote swap setup over a network using SMB3...

The New Features Of The Linux 5.7 Kernel: Tiger Lake Graphics Stable, New exFAT, Zstd F2FS, Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 04/13/2020 - 01:11
Linus Torvalds is expected to deliver an Easter day kernel release in the form of Linux 5.7-rc1. After a two week merge window, Linux 5.7 feature development formally ends today. Here is a look at the many exciting improvements and new features to find with Linux 5.7.

Continuing To Improve The Benchmark Result Viewer

Phoronix - Sun, 04/12/2020 - 20:00
The benchmark result viewer has some more improvements that should be of interest to many for digging into more performance details especially between processors and systems...

Linux 5.7 Makes It Very Easy To Build The Kernel With An LLVM-Based Toolchain

Phoronix - Sun, 04/12/2020 - 19:15
Since last year it's been possible to build a mainline x86_64 Linux kernel with a mainline LLVM Clang compiler while for the in-development Linux 5.7 kernel are more improvements on the LLVM front...

PG_Zero: Faster Page Allocation Proposed For Linux By Zeroing Out Pages Ahead Of Time

Phoronix - Sun, 04/12/2020 - 19:00
A set of patches sent out Sunday morning for "PG_zero" could provide much faster page allocation performance by the Linux kernel...

Watch Out: Microsoft Windows WSL1 Currently Borked With Ubuntu 20.04

Phoronix - Sun, 04/12/2020 - 18:44
A public service announcement was issued with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) currently will have issues in running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS so users should either wait for Microsoft to release a fix, upgrade to WSL2, or stick to using the older Ubuntu 18.04 LTS instead...

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