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Cloudflare employs Linux disk encryption on their servers and with some optimizations have made it at least two times faster throughput while also lowering the latency...

Cloudflare Improving Linux Disk Encryption Performance - Doubling The Throughput  Phoronix

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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Tsurugi Linux Review: A Linux Distro For Digital Forensics, OSINT, And More  Fossbytes

System76 launches Lemur Pro, its lightest Linux laptop  ZDNet

AMD Developers Looking At GNU C Library Platform Optimizations For Zen  Phoronix

It's long overdue but AMD engineers are now looking at refactoring the GNU C Library (Glibc) platform support to enhance the performance for AMD Zen processors...

How to Use Regular Expressions (regexes) on Linux  How-To Geek

Released at the end of February was the long overdue stable release of Android-x86 9.0 that re-based this Intel/AMD focused Android spin atop the 9.0 "Pie" Android Open-Source Project state plus with various additions/improvements for running on x86_64 laptop/desktop hardware. Out today is the second stable update to the Android-x86 9.0 series...

Android-x86 9.0-r2 Released With Updated Kernel, UEFI Boot Fix  Phoronix

Longtime open-source Linux graphics developer Thomas Hellström of VMware has sent out a patch series aiming for Linux 5.7 or 5.8 to introduce support for huge and giant page-table entries for the TTM memory management code and TTM-enabled graphics drivers...

TTM Huge Page Table Entries Pending For Lowering Graphics Driver CPU Usage  Phoronix

Intel open-source developers have released IWD v1.6 as their open-source, embedded-friendly wireless daemon for Linux systems as an alternative to WPA_Supplicant...

Disclosed back in mid-November was the Intel JCC Erratum that required a CPU microcode update to mitigate and that in turn had broad performance hits. But via toolchain updates, some of that overhead can be offset. The GNU Assembler patches were quickly merged and new options exposed for helping to decrease that performance hit but on the LLVM side the developers are still working on their mitigation with some design decisions still to be made...

The Dream of Android Apps on Linux Phones Is So Close to Coming True  Softpedia News

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM in short) is an open-source and de facto standard virtualization solution that is tightly integrated into Linux. It is a loadable kernel module that turns Linux into a type-1 (bare-metal)...

Cartesi launches first ever Layer-2 Linux infrastructure for developing blockchain DApps  European Gaming Industry News

Oracle Released New Update 3 Of Unbreakable Enterprise Linux Kernel 5  Fossbytes

In Kubernetes, objects are analogous to a job or a completed task in the real world. You can use them to define common tasks, store them in a version control system, and apply them with kubectl apply. Kubernetes ensures that this triggers everything necessary to bring your declarative description to life by creating the depending resources (like pods) to run your software. Kubernetes contains a number of built-in object types that can be created with this workflow, like Deployments and Services.

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A Markov model (named after the mathematician Andrey Markov) is used for forecasting in systems of random change. Markov's insight is that good predictions in this context can be made from only the most recent occurrence of an event, ignoring any occurrences before the current one. The approach might be described as memoryless or history-agnostic prediction.

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