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FuryBSD Is A New Attempt At A Desktop Focused BSD

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 09:00
Joe Maloney of iXsystems has lifted the wraps on FuryBSD, a new desktop BSD focused on tight integration with FreeBSD. FuryBSD joins the likes of MidnightBSD and GhostBSD on providing a sane and easy-to-use desktop experience out-of-the-box along similar lines to the former PC-BSD (TrueOS)...

Shadow of the Tomb Raider Now Officially Available For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 03:18
Feral Interactive has just shipped their Linux (and macOS) port of Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition...

Zstd 1.4.4 Released With Faster Compression & Decompression Support

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 02:39
Facebook has released Zstd 1.4.4 today as the newest implementation of their increasingly used Zstanard compression algorithm...

Netflix Is An Example Of A Great Open-Source Corporate Patron To FreeBSD

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 01:36
With yesterday's article about the NUMA improvements to FreeBSD's network stack made by Netflix in their quest to serve 200Gb/s encrypted video content per server, in no time the forum comments were quick to theorize whether those changes would work their way back upstream to all FreeBSD users or due to the BSD license would be held as a guarded secret by the company. Fortunately, Netflix continues to impress when it comes to their open-source contributions...

Microsoft Will Release Their Edge Web Browser For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2019 - 00:40
Microsoft announced at their Ignite conference in Seattle that their Edge web-browser will see a Linux release...

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