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Systemd 247 Released With Experimental Out-of-Memory Daemon, New Credentials Capability

Phoronix - Fri, 11/27/2020 - 02:15
Systemd 247 is out today as the latest major version of this Linux init system. Like most systemd releases, systemd 247 is very heavy on new features...

PHP 8.0 Officially Released With Many Language Additions, Better Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 11/27/2020 - 00:28
PHP 8.0 is out today as expected as a major update to this widely-used programming language for server-side programming and other purposes...

Unigine 2.13 Continues Enhancing Their OpenGL Engine While Still Porting To Vulkan

Phoronix - Thu, 11/26/2020 - 21:22
Unigine 2 remains one of the most visually stunning game and simulation engines out there. That's even with still using OpenGL (or Direct3D 11 also on Windows) while their Vulkan renderer remains in the works. Unigine 2.13 is out this week as their latest iteration of this visually incredible engine with first-rate Linux support...

OpenZFS 2.0-RC7 Brings Better ABI Handling, Reduced Latency For Non-Interactive I/O

Phoronix - Thu, 11/26/2020 - 19:52
OpenZFS 2.0 is getting quite close to release but isn't over the finish line yet and this week brings the seventh release candidate...

AMD Stages More Driver Updates For New GPUs With Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Thu, 11/26/2020 - 18:00
While the Radeon RX 6800 series is now shipping that was developed under the Sienna Cichlid codename, there are other fishy codenames remaining and are seeing more work for the Linux 5.11 kernel that will officially open development in December and then likely reaching stable in February...

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