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FreeBSD 13 BETA Benchmarks - Performance Is Much Better

Phoronix - Thu, 02/11/2021 - 03:53
The official release of FreeBSD 13.0 is coming up in March, while already from our preliminary tests of the newly minted FreeBSD 13.0 BETA1, the benchmark results are extremely tantalizing compared to FreeBSD 12.2... Ultimately the performance should be much more competitive now compared to Linux (at least on Intel x86_64) and other operating systems with the big FreeBSD 13 release.

GRUB 2.06 Should Be Released This Year, Cooperation Increasing With Distro Vendors

Phoronix - Thu, 02/11/2021 - 00:35
While GRUB 2.06 was aiming for release in 2020, having to deal with the BootHole security issue among other challenges last year ended up delaying that release. Fortunately, it looks like this long awaited GRUB feature update should be out this year and there has been increased cooperation between upstream GRUB developers and distribution vendors...

Intel's Project ACRN To Upstream More Code With Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Wed, 02/10/2021 - 21:43
Announced nearly three years ago by Intel was the ACRN reference hypervisor framework intended for IoT/embedded use-cases with real-time capabilities and safety-critical computing. More of the kernel bits to this "Big Little Hypervisor for IoT Development" are set to see mainline with the imminent Linux 5.12 kernel cycle...

Developers Continue New Push With LibreOffice In The Web Browser Via WebAssembly

Phoronix - Wed, 02/10/2021 - 20:31
While there has been LibreOffice Online as a collaborative, web-based version of LibreOffice making use of the HTML5 Canvas for its UI, there hasn't been much activity there recently outside of the Collabora Online commercial variant. But developers are working on a current port of LibreOffice to the web browser using WebAssembly...

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