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OpenZFS Developer Summit 2019 Videos + Slides For The Latest On Open-Source ZFS
Taking place 4 and 5 November in San Francisco was the OpenZFS Developer Summit. This two-day open-source ZFS developer summit made possible by Intel, Delphix, Datto, and OSNexus had a lot of interesting presentations from the state of ZFS TRIM/Discard to debugging topics...
Thunderbolt 3 Software Connection Manager Support Coming In Linux 5.5 For Apple Hardware
The Thunderbolt changes have been merged to char-misc ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.5 merge window...
OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Alpha Released With Toolchain Upgrade, Clang-ed Kernel Option
The first alpha release of the forthcoming OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 is now available for testing with this Clang-built Linux distribution that originates back to the days of Mandrake...
KDE Packs Away New Screensaver Setting, Other Changes For First Full Week Of November
It's been another busy week in KDE land with developers working through the massive code-bases comprising the KDE desktop environment on a variety of features and fixes...
How universities are using open source to attract students
Michigan Tech just launched opensource.mtu.edu, a virtual one-stop free shop for all things open source on campus. According to their site, Tech Today:
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Longtime Linux-Friendly X-Plane Flight Simulator Sees v11.40 Released
Besides X-Plane being one of the most realistic PC-based flight simulators, this flight simulator from Laminar Research has long supported Linux. Out this weekend is X-Plane 11.40 as the latest update and the last major release before they roll-out their long-awaited Vulkan graphics API support...
Benchmarks Of 10 Higher-End Intel/AMD CPUs On Ubuntu 19.10
With Ubuntu 19.10 bringing some CPU/system performance changes compared to earlier Ubuntu releases as a result of compiler/toolchain upgrades, the newer kernel, and more, here is a quick weekend look at how the Ubuntu 19.10 performance compares across ten different AMD Ryzen and Intel Core systems...
PulseAudio Adds GStreamer-Powered RTP Implementation
As an alternative to PulseAudio's existing RTP implementation, a new GStreamer-based Real-Time Transport Protocol has been introduced...
OpenZFS 2.0 Out In 2020 With Unified Linux/FreeBSD Support, OpenZFS 3.0 With macOS
Taking place this past week in San Francisco was the annual OpenZFS Developer Summit. As usual, Matthew Ahrens as the co-founder of Sun ZFS and current OpenZFS contributor at Delphix talked about the state of the open-source ZFS efforts in his keynote...
EXT4 File-System Picking Up New Direct I/O Read Implementation
Among other EXT4 file-system changes en route for the upcoming Linux 5.5 kernel is a new direct I/O read implementation...
Musikcube is a terminal music player for Windows, macOS and Linux - Ghacks Technology News
Musikcube is a terminal music player for Windows, macOS and Linux Ghacks Technology News
Linux Sees Fix For "Critical" Scheduler Bug Introduced A Few Months Ago
Coming out Friday night was a series to address a "critical" scheduler issue with the Linux kernel...