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Microsoft's WSL2 Now Supports Memory Reclamation

Phoronix - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 13:39
Microsoft's Windows Insider Preview Build 19013 has introduced memory reclamation support for Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2)...

FreeBSD Lands Important ZFS Performance Fix For Some Going From ~60MB/s To ~600MB/s

Phoronix - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 12:45
Thanks to the BSD wizards at iXsystems, FreeBSD has received an important performance fix/optimization around their ZFS file-system code...

Systemd Has A New Logo As Other Features Build Up For The Next Release

Phoronix - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 12:05
The newest feature of systemd is... a new logo...

The spooktacular tale of Red Hat's Halloween release

Red Hat News - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 12:00

At Red Hat we have a particular fondness for Halloween. Sure, there's the carved pumpkins, and costumes, and candy, and Trick-or-Treating, scary movies, and… did we mention candy? But, in addition to all that, the first public Red Hat release was unleashed on the public on October 31, 1994. Let's take a step back in time and see what a Linux release looked like in the far reaches of the past. 

Mesa 19.3-RC1 Released With OpenGL 4.6 For Intel, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 07:00
Mesa 19.3 feature development is now officially over and Mesa 20.0 is open for development on Git master. This final Mesa series of 2019 comes with many exciting OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...

Mesa 19.3 Has The Very Preliminary OpenGL + Vulkan Driver Support Ready For Intel Gen12

Phoronix - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 05:57
Similar to the flurry of Radeon driver activity in buttoning things up ahead of the Mesa 19.3 feature freeze, the Intel open-source crew has landed some last-minute bits around the Tiger Lake "Gen 12" enablement...

AMDGPU Gets Some Promising Fixes For Linux 5.4: Clang, Undervolting, Golden Settings

Phoronix - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 05:34
While we are getting late into the Linux 5.4 cycle, there still is some interesting AMDGPU work settling down...

CodeWeavers Working On Vulkan Shared Memory Support In Wine

Phoronix - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 02:46
CodeWeavers' Derek Lesho has been working on Vulkan shared memory support for Wine to expose some interesting use-cases...

Radeon Open-Source Linux Graphics Have A Wild Day For Mesa 19.3 From 8K Decode To ACO

Phoronix - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 01:41
With Mesa 19.3 scheduled to be branched today and that marking the end of feature development for this next quarterly installment to these open-source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan drivers, developers are in a mad rush landing last minute improvements. The open-source Radeon driver support has a lot to stand in particular from today's work...

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