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How to Setup HAProxy as Load Balancer for Nginx on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 14:17
To ensure maximum web application availability, scalability, and high performance, it is now common to implement technologies that introduce redundancy, such as server clustering and load balancing. For example, setting up a cluster of...

GitHub Completes Its Acquisition Of The NPM JavaScript/Node.js Package Manager

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 12:00
Following the surprise announcement last month that Microsoft's GitHub would be acquiring NPM Inc, the company behind the popular JavaScript package manager, that acquisition is now complete...

KWinFT: KDE's KWin Forked To Focus On Better Wayland Support, Modern Technologies

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 06:30
Longtime KDE developer and former Blue Systems engineer, Roman Gilg, has announced his forking of KDE's KWin window manager / compositor and the subsequent first release of this new KWinFT project...

Steam Play's Proton 5.0-6 Released With DOOM Eternal Fix, Other Game Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 06:06
Following the Proton 5.0-6 release candidate from earlier this month that brought out-of-the-box support for DOOM Eternal under Linux, Valve today promoted Proton 5.0-6 to being officially available...

Shared Virtual Memory Lands In Mesa Gallium3D's "Clover" OpenCL Implementation

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 03:00
After being in code review the past half-year, support for Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) within Gallium3D's "Clover" OpenCL state tracker was just merged for Mesa 20.1...

RADV+ACO Outperforming AMDVLK, AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Drivers For X-Plane 11.50 Flight Simulator

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 00:30
Released this month was the X-Plane 11.50 beta flight simulator that introduced a Vulkan renderer for this cross-platform, realistic flight simulator that long relied upon an OpenGL pipeline. Last week we published OpenGL vs. Vulkan X-Plane 11 benchmarks for both NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics. In this article is a look at the X-Plane 11.50 beta Vulkan performance across the different Radeon Vulkan driver options.

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