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Oracle Engineers Send Out Linux Patches For Trenchboot Secure Late-Launch Kernel Support

Phoronix - Thu, 03/26/2020 - 06:46
Going back to over a year ago were discussions by Oracle engineers and others about a secure launch boot protocol for the Linux kernel to in turn tie into the Trenchboot open-source project working on various system integrity features. We are now finally seeing new patches out of Oracle for wiring more Trenchboot support into the Linux kernel...

Fedora Adopts A New Vision Statement

Phoronix - Thu, 03/26/2020 - 04:30
Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller has sent out a reminder to Fedora contributors to "be excellent to each other" while announcing the project has a new vision statement...

OpenJDK 8/11 vs. GraalVM 20 vs. Amazon Corretto JVM Benchmarks

Phoronix - Thu, 03/26/2020 - 02:00
Following last week's benchmarks of OpenJDK 8 through the newly-released OpenJDK 14 JVM benchmarks, some Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing Java benchmarks with Oracle's GraalVM as well as Amazon's Corretto JVM implementations. Here are some benchmarks of those benchmarks up against OpenJDK both for Java 8 and Java 11 releases.

Cloudflare Improving Linux Disk Encryption Performance - Doubling The Throughput

Phoronix - Wed, 03/25/2020 - 23:37
Cloudflare employs Linux disk encryption on their servers and with some optimizations have made it at least two times faster throughput while also lowering the latency...

npm joins GitHub, building operators in Kubernetes, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Wed, 03/25/2020 - 23:35

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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AMD Developers Looking At GNU C Library Platform Optimizations For Zen

Phoronix - Wed, 03/25/2020 - 20:18
It's long overdue but AMD engineers are now looking at refactoring the GNU C Library (Glibc) platform support to enhance the performance for AMD Zen processors...

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