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F2FS Improves Zoned Block Device Support & Per-File Compression For Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Tue, 03/19/2024 - 08:29
Merged today were all the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel...

Improving the Developer Experience with Testcontainers and OpenShift

Red Hat News - Tue, 03/19/2024 - 08:00
Reducing developers' cognitive load is key to increasing their productivity. Even still, 76% of organizations say cognitive load on developers is so high that it is a source of low productivity. In response, organizations are establishing platform engineering teams to improve the developer experience while ensuring governance, security and control, with Gartner anticipating 80% of companies forming these groups by 2026. Developers' quest for shorter-feedback cycles drives the adoption of solutions that allow them to get a fast feedback cycle, in the inner loop of development, often even before

XWayland Nukes The NVIDIA EGLStream Backend

Phoronix - Tue, 03/19/2024 - 04:05
XWayland had targeted both the Generic Buffer Management (GBM) and EGLStream APIs due to NVIDIA not supporting GBM like all of the other Linux drivers. But now that the NVIDIA proprietary Linux graphics driver has been boasting GBM support and advancing with their Wayland platform support in general, XWayland is letting go of the EGLStream mess...

Firefox 124 Now Available With Screen Wake Lock API

Phoronix - Tue, 03/19/2024 - 00:17
The Firefox 124.0 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement tomorrow...

LLVM Clang Shows Off Great Performance Advantage On NVIDIA GH200's Neoverse-V2 Cores

Phoronix - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 23:20
With my recent NVIDIA GH200 Grace CPU benchmarks carried out remotely via GPTshop.ai, besides looking at areas like the 64K kernel page size performance benefits I also ran some fresh benchmarks looking at the performance difference when the binaries were generated by LLVM Clang rather than the default GCC compiler on Ubuntu Linux. This article shows off the performance difference for the 72-core Neoverse-V2 server/HPC processor when leveraging LLVM Clang rather than the GNU Compiler Collection.

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