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How to Setup HAProxy as Load Balancer for Nginx on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 14:17
To ensure maximum web application availability, scalability, and high performance, it is now common to implement technologies that introduce redundancy, such as server clustering and load balancing. For example, setting up a cluster of...

GitHub Completes Its Acquisition Of The NPM JavaScript/Node.js Package Manager

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 12:00
Following the surprise announcement last month that Microsoft's GitHub would be acquiring NPM Inc, the company behind the popular JavaScript package manager, that acquisition is now complete...

KWinFT: KDE's KWin Forked To Focus On Better Wayland Support, Modern Technologies

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 06:30
Longtime KDE developer and former Blue Systems engineer, Roman Gilg, has announced his forking of KDE's KWin window manager / compositor and the subsequent first release of this new KWinFT project...

Steam Play's Proton 5.0-6 Released With DOOM Eternal Fix, Other Game Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 06:06
Following the Proton 5.0-6 release candidate from earlier this month that brought out-of-the-box support for DOOM Eternal under Linux, Valve today promoted Proton 5.0-6 to being officially available...

Shared Virtual Memory Lands In Mesa Gallium3D's "Clover" OpenCL Implementation

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 03:00
After being in code review the past half-year, support for Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) within Gallium3D's "Clover" OpenCL state tracker was just merged for Mesa 20.1...

RADV+ACO Outperforming AMDVLK, AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Drivers For X-Plane 11.50 Flight Simulator

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 00:30
Released this month was the X-Plane 11.50 beta flight simulator that introduced a Vulkan renderer for this cross-platform, realistic flight simulator that long relied upon an OpenGL pipeline. Last week we published OpenGL vs. Vulkan X-Plane 11 benchmarks for both NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics. In this article is a look at the X-Plane 11.50 beta Vulkan performance across the different Radeon Vulkan driver options.

GNOME's UX Team Working On More 2020 Improvements To The Shell

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 00:28
While GNOME 3.36 shipped just last month, the GNOME user experience team is already working on improvements that could potentially make it into GNOME 3.38 this autumn for further polishing the UX of the desktop...

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