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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...

KDE Finally Has Support For Configuring The Scroll Speed On Wayland

Phoronix - Sun, 04/12/2020 - 18:25
Some longstanding issues were resolved this week in KDE land that will be to the benefit of many users...

Use this helpful Bash script when stargazing

opensource.com - Sun, 04/12/2020 - 15:00

We often talk about Linux being used on servers and by developers, but it is used in many other fields too, including astronomy. There are a lot of astronomy tools available for Linux, such as sky maps, star charts, and interfaces to telescope drive systems for controlling your telescope. But one challenge for astronomers is using a computer while keeping their eyes working in the dark.


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Wasmtime Now Offering Go Bindings For WebAssembly On The Desktop

Phoronix - Sun, 04/12/2020 - 08:45
With the push for WebAssembly on the desktop for beautiful cross-platform support, the Wasmtime project has added Go bindings to its portfolio...

BleachBit 3.9.2 Beta - Neowin

Google News - Sun, 04/12/2020 - 01:52

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