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Samba 4.12 Released With Performance Improvements, IO_uring Support

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 05:14
Samba 4.12 is out this week as a big update to this prominent SMB/CIFS implementation for file exchange and printer sharing predominantly with Microsoft Windows systems...

Wine's Vulkan Code Seeing Performance Improvements, Further Enhancing DXVK

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 02:00
D9VK (now part of DXVK) developer Joshua Ashton has proposed a set of patches to Wine's Vulkan library (Winevulkan) that should help with performance...

Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Seeing New "BIR" Compiler

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 01:34
The Panfrost open-source, reverse-engineered Arm Mali Gallium3D driver is seeing work on a new driver-specific IR and compiler back-end...

FreeNAS + TrueNAS Unifying Into TrueNAS 12.0 CORE/Enterprise

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 00:40
BSD-focused vendor iXsystems has developed FreeNAS as their community-oriented NAS operating system while TrueNAS is what they ship on their storage solutions. FreeNAS and TrueNAS have been derived largely from the same code-base. Moving forward to TrueNAS 12.0 later this year, iXsystems is unifying FreeNAS and TrueNAS...

LLVM 10.0-RC3 Released With The Final Expected Soon For This Big Compiler Update

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 00:04
LLVM 10.0 was supposed to be released at the end of February but is running slightly behind schedule and now there is a third and unscheduled final release candidate...

Intel PMC Mux Control Driver Coming For Linux 5.7 To Change USB-C Modes

Phoronix - Thu, 03/05/2020 - 23:22
One of the new Intel drivers up for testing that is currently in the USB-next for the forthcoming Linux 5.7 kernel cycle is the Intel PMC Mux Control driver...

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