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Btrfs Preps Performance Improvements & Experimental Large Folios For Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 20:55
With the Linux 6.16 stable kernel potentially being released this coming Sunday, the Linux 6.17 merge window is quickly approaching. Btrfs maintainer and SUSE engineer David Sterba sent out the Btrfs pull request already of new feature code for this copy-on-write file-system in Linux 6.17...

OVMF Debug Log Driver Slated For Linux 6.17 To Help Analyze UEFI VM Boot Issues

Phoronix - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 20:40
For those making use of Open Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF) such as for UEFI booting of VMs with KVM+QEMU, the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is set to offer a convenient new driver to help in debugging the system boot when needed...

Pogocache 1.0 Released: Claims Better Performance Than Memcache, Valkey & Redis

Phoronix - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 20:11
Pogocache 1.0 was released today as a fast open-source caching software that aims for low latency and great CPU efficiency. Pogocache supports Memcache / Valkey / Redis / HTTP / Postgres wire protocols while claiming to offer much better throughput and lower latency than these caching alternatives...

Cloud Hypervisor 47 Provides Nicer Error Messages

Phoronix - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 18:26
Cloud Hypervisor is the open-source, Rust-based VMM started originally by Intel engineers but under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation has evolved into a nice multi-vendor initiative with the likes of Microsoft, Cyberus, Arm, and others all contributing. Even with Intel's cutbacks due to their ongoing corporate restructuring, the Cloud Hypervisor project is thriving as a multi-vendor open-source project for a security-focused hypervisor...

Arm Publishes Open-Source Accelerator Driver For Ethos-U65/85 NPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 18:06
The newest open-source Linux kernel driver being worked on for the growing accelerator "accel" subsystem is a new hardware driver courtesy of Arm for enabling their Ethos U65 and U85 NPUs...

FreeBSD 15.0 Aims To Have A KDE Desktop Install Option

Phoronix - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 08:24
The crew working on enhancing the FreeBSD laptop support is hoping to have an install option within the installer of FreeBSD 15 that will easily provide a KDE Plasma based desktop environment...

Red Hat boosts partner engagement with program updates and new Partner Demand Center

Red Hat News - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 08:00
Building on our commitment to simplify, empower and grow with our partners, Red Hat is excited to announce the latest enhancements to our global partner engagement experience. These updates underscore our ongoing transformation efforts to provide greater simplicity, choice and flexibility for our valued partner ecosystem.The epoch-making shift in the technology landscape, fueled by breakthroughs in AI and the dynamic world of virtualization, is reshaping every industry. Red Hat’s partner ecosystem is pivotal in helping customers navigate these seismic shifts and capitalize on emerging opport

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