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Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU15 Has A Number Of Package Updates

Phoronix - Wed, 11/20/2019 - 13:01
While there is no sign of Solaris 11.5 or Solaris.Next (last year was a road-map pointing to Solaris 11.Next in H2'19 or H1'20 that has since been removed), Oracle does continue putting out more updates to the Solaris 11.4 series...

DXVK 1.4.5 Brings Async Presentation For All GPUs, Better Multi-Threading Efficiency

Phoronix - Wed, 11/20/2019 - 07:33
It's been three weeks already since the last DXVK update but that was succeeded this evening by DXVK 1.4.5 as another notable update to this project mapping Direct3D 10/11 onto Vulkan for speeding up the Wine/Proton-based Windows gaming experience on Linux...

We're all on a journey to cloud-native adoption together

opensource.com - Wed, 11/20/2019 - 05:50

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is hosting its core conference for the fifth year running. It’s official title is KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, but it’s most importantly the home for Kubernetes. Adopters, contributors, and Kubernetes-curious attendees add up to a record-breaking 12,000 people.


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Intel Haswell To Ice Lake Laptop Performance Benchmarks On Ubuntu 19.10

Phoronix - Wed, 11/20/2019 - 05:13
With the many Intel Ice Lake Linux benchmarks we began publishing over the past month since picking up a Dell XPS with Core i7-1065G7, there have been many benchmarks compared to the likes of the Core i7 Whiskey Lake and Kaby Lake processors. For those curious how the performance stacks up going further back, here are some Ubuntu 19.10 laptop benchmarks putting it up against the likes of Core i7 Haswell and Broadwell processors.

Debian Adds Another Option For Its Init System Diversity General Resolution

Phoronix - Wed, 11/20/2019 - 04:55
A few days ago Debian Project Leader Sam Hartman laid out the proposals for the upcoming Debian General Resolution vote concerning "init system diversity" and just how much Debian developers still care in 2019 about supporting non-systemd init systems within the Linux distribution...

vkBasalt 0.2 Released With SMAA, Other Vulkan Post Processing Layer Enhancements

Phoronix - Wed, 11/20/2019 - 03:33
The open-source vkBasalt project was started as a layer implementing Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (akin to Radeon Image Sharpening) for any Vulkan-using GPU/driver/software. The vkBasalt project then picked up FXAA support for this Vulkan post-processing layer while now a new release is out with more functionality added...

Coreboot 4.11 Brings Many Intel Improvements, New Support For Supermicro / Lenovo Boards

Phoronix - Wed, 11/20/2019 - 01:00
Coreboot 4.11 was released today as the tagged autumn build of Coreboot that is used as an alternative to proprietary BIOS/firmware on motherboards...

Container reality checks and more industry trends

opensource.com - Wed, 11/20/2019 - 00:30

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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