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XFS Real-Time Enables FITRIM Support With Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 18:12
The XFS file-system updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel...

Is Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Virtualization the Best Alternative to VMware Amid Rising Costs?

URSI News - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 16:45

Could Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Virtualization Be the Best Alternative to VMware Amid Rising Costs?

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OBS Studio: Free Live Streaming & Screen Recording in Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 15:02
The post OBS Studio: Free Live Streaming & Screen Recording in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

OBS Studio, short for Open Broadcaster Software Studio, is a free-to-use, open-source, cross-platform software application designed for video recording and

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Microsoft's WSL 2.3.11 Brings "Hundreds Of New Kernel Modules" & New Features

Phoronix - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:00
Microsoft today published a new version of their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in pre-release form...

Rust Safety Standard Proposed For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:24
While Rust is viewed as a memory safe and robust programming language, there is the "unsafe" keyword within Rust that can be used for unsafe code that grants "unsafe superpowers" for the language. As dealing with Rust at low-levels as the Linux kernel can lead to needing to use "unsafe" Rust at times, a documentation standard has been proposed for dealing with such code inside the kernel...

NVIDIA Promotes Their Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Support

Phoronix - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 03:23
It's been a wild two years since NVIDIA began publishing an open-source Linux GPU kernel driver for Turing GPUs and newer. With the latest NVIDIA 555 Linux driver series that open-source kernel driver support is in great shape and NVIDIA today is out with a lengthy blog post promoting it...

RADV vs. AMDVLK Radeon Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance For Mid-2024

Phoronix - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 23:50
Last week with delivering a number of AMD vs. NVIDIA Vulkan ray-tracing benchmarks under Linux with the current drivers and using the new "Breaking Limit" benchmark, the question was raised how well does AMD's official "AMDVLK" Vulkan driver handle ray-tracing these days compared to the more popular Mesa RADV Vulkan driver used commonly by Linux gamers and as the default driver on most Linux distributions. Here is a fresh look at the RADV versus AMDVLK Vulkan performance on Linux with a focus on ray-tracing performance.

AMD Core Performance Boost & Fast CPPC Land In Linux 6.11, Intel Lunar Lake Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 21:55
The power management updates have been merged for Linux 6.11 that include some nice improvements for Intel and AMD processors...

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