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XWayland-Run 0.0.3 Adds Support For KDE's KWin

Phoronix - Mon, 03/25/2024 - 18:43
Since last year Red Hat engineers have been developing xwayland-run and wlheadless-run for spawning X11 clients within its own dedicated XWayland rootful instance and for running a Wayland client on a set of supported Wayland headless compositors, respectively. The intent is on improving the Wayland headless experience as well as being able to get classic X11 sessions up and running via rootful XWayland. Out today is the XWayland-Run v0.0.3 release...

SysVinit 3.09 Now Allows Building With musl C Library, Passing Boot Messages To Firmware

Phoronix - Mon, 03/25/2024 - 18:26
While most Linux distributions have long since moved on from SysVinit in favor of systemd for init duties, this weekend SysVinit 3.09 was released for any legacy users and holdouts still enjoying the System V-init style experience...

SAS Viya on Red Hat OpenShift – Part 1: Reference Architecture and Deployment Considerations

Red Hat News - Mon, 03/25/2024 - 08:00
In this two-part blog, we will provide essential technical information about SAS Institute's latest analytic platform, SAS Viya, as well as a reference architecture for deploying SAS Viya on Red Hat OpenShift. Also, make sure to take a look at part 2 of this blog, where we will discuss security, machine management and storage considerations. Let’s start with a few introductory words before we get into the technical details.Since the launch of SAS Viya in 2020, SAS has offered a fully containerized analytic platform based on a cloud-native architecture. Due to the scale of the platform, SAS V

Linux 6.9-rc1 Released With AMD P-State Preferred Core, Larger FB Console Fonts

Phoronix - Mon, 03/25/2024 - 06:03
Linus Torvalds just released the first release candidate for Linux 6.9 that now marks the formal end of the two-week merge window...

SDL3 Preview Release Aims To Help Test The New SDL 3.0 API

Phoronix - Sun, 03/24/2024 - 23:22
Sam Lantinga released an SDL preview release today of SDL3 for helping to encourage developers to test out the new SDL 3.0 API...

KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.9 Brings More Optimizations For Intel & AMD

Phoronix - Sun, 03/24/2024 - 23:00
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes for Linux 6.9 continue to enhance the capabilities of the open-source Linux virtualization software stack...

Rust-Written Coreutils 0.0.25 With Improved GNU Compatibility

Phoronix - Sun, 03/24/2024 - 22:25
Out this weekend is a new version of uutils' Coreutils 0.0.25 as the Rust-written drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils for common utilities found on Linux platforms and other systems...

Linux 6.9 Improves Speakup - Its In-Kernel Speech Synthesizer

Phoronix - Sun, 03/24/2024 - 22:10
The speakup driver that's long existed within the Linux kernel is a speech synthesizer that can interface with various synthesizer hardware and from user-space software can interface with /dev/synth for submitting data to the synthesizer. With Linux 6.9 the speakup driver is seeing two useful improvements...

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