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Systemd-OOMD Continues Coming Together For Better Linux Out-Of-Memory Handling

Phoronix - Fri, 04/10/2020 - 20:49
Beyond the new systemd-homed functionality, another improvement to look forward to in the systemd space this calendar year is systemd-oomd materializing as its new out-of-memory daemon...

X.Org vs. Wayland Browser Performance With Firefox + Chrome

Phoronix - Fri, 04/10/2020 - 19:00
Given the release of Firefox 75 with Wayland improvements and also Firefox 76 now being in beta with even more work on the Wayland front, here are some web browser benchmarks under Wayland and the X.Org Server session with GNOME Shell 3.36 on Ubuntu 20.04. Additionally, Google Chrome benchmarks on Wayland and X.Org were also carried out.

Intel Compute Runtime / IGC Shifts To LLVM Clang 10

Phoronix - Fri, 04/10/2020 - 18:32
The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) and now in turn the Intel Compute Runtime have updated their compiler stack against the newly released LLVM Clang 10.0...

UDisks 2.9 To Support LVM's Virtual Data Optimizer For Deduplication/Compression

Phoronix - Fri, 04/10/2020 - 16:03
The FreeDesktop.org UDisks project that provides a daemon and interface for querying and manipulating storage devices on Linux is approaching its long overdue version 2.9 update...

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