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NVIDIA Introduces New Low-Latency Vulkan Extension For Gaming

Phoronix - Wed, 10/04/2023 - 21:30
Vulkan 1.3.266 was published a few days ago with a handful of fixes and two new extensions. One of those extensions, VK_NV_low_latency2 is quite interesting...

DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 File-System Seeing New Improvements, Initial Recovery Support

Phoronix - Wed, 10/04/2023 - 18:52
When it comes to the BSD operating systems, DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 is one of the most interesting innovations. HAMMER2 supports online deduplication, clustering, multiple mountable file-system roots, snapshots, compression, encryption, extensive checksumming, and other features. Over the past decade it's evolved quite nicely and in recent days has seen further enhancements...

Linux Patches Allow Changing Hibernation Compression Format For Better Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 10/04/2023 - 18:34
Currently when hibernating a Linux system LZO compression is used for preserving the memory contents while a new patch series posted today by Qualcomm allow for changing out the compression API used and makes LZ4 a new option during Linux hibernation...

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