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Bcachefs Linux File-System Sent Out For Review With Exciting Feature Progress
Bcachefs has been developed for a half-decade now as the Linux file-system born out of the block cache "bcache" kernel code. Kent Overstreet continues spearheading the work and while it's been quiet in recent months today he sent out a new round of Bcachefs patches for review on the Linux kernel mailing list...
Canonical's Snap Packaging Switching To LZO Compression For Faster Startup Times
The Snap packaging / software deployment effort led by Canonical for Ubuntu and other distributions currently relies on XZ compression of the SquashFS-based archives while moving forward they are planning to make use of LZO compression. Snap'ing with LZO will result in faster startup-times at the cost of larger packages...
Best Linux server distributions of 2020 - TechRepublic
Best Linux server distributions of 2020 TechRepublic
Rust Lands Experimental Cranelift-Based Code Generator - Much Faster Debug Build Times
Landing yesterday within the Rust code-base is the initial version of a Cranelift code generator back-end. By leveraging the Cranelift code generator that is developed as part of the Bytecode Alliance for WebAssembly, Rustc with Cranelift can experince much faster debug builds...
A Look At The Performance Improvements With System76 Pop!_OS 20.10
At the end of last week System76 released Pop!_OS 20.10 as their customized distribution built atop Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla. For those curious here are some benchmarks of System76's Pop!_OS 20.10 versus 20.04 using the Thelio Major with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X and Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics.
Fedora 33 Released With Workstation Using Btrfs By Default
Fedora 33 has just been released as the last major update to this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution for 2020...