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Haiku OS Gets The Iceweasel Web Browser Up & Running

Phoronix - Tue, 01/14/2025 - 19:36
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system has published their latest monthly development report. During December they worked on a number of features and fixes as well as getting a modern web browser up and running...

JUring: Experimental IO_uring For Java With Big Performance Gains

Phoronix - Tue, 01/14/2025 - 19:23
For those looking toward better I/O performance with Java, there is JUring for making use of IO_uring and the reported performance benefits are very enticing...

Intel's Open Image Denoise Begins Preparing For Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics

Phoronix - Tue, 01/14/2025 - 19:09
Open Image Denoise 2.3.2 was released by Intel on Monday. Contrary to being a point release, it's actually an exciting update...

Beginner’s Guide to Android Studio and Kotlin Setup on Ubuntu 24.04

Tecmint - Tue, 01/14/2025 - 15:24
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Android development is an exciting field, and Kotlin has quickly become the preferred language for building Android apps. If you’re

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How to Timeout HTTP Requests in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 01/14/2025 - 12:53
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As a Linux user with over 10 years of experience, I understand the importance of optimizing your system for performance

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OpenZFS 2.3 Released With RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup, Direct I/O & Other Great Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 01/14/2025 - 09:42
OpenZFS 2.3 is out as stable this evening as the latest major feature release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation used on Linux and FreeBSD systems. OpenZFS 2.3 is heavy on new features...

Fedora 42 Cleared To Ship WSL Images For Easy Windows Subsystem For Linux Use

Phoronix - Tue, 01/14/2025 - 09:25
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has granted approval of the change proposal for shipping Fedora Linux WSL images to enhance the user experience for those wanting to run this Linux distribution within the confines of Microsoft's Windows 11 WSL2 environment...

Intel Battlemage Showing Off Nice OpenCL Gains With Newest Open-Source Compute Stack

Phoronix - Tue, 01/14/2025 - 03:52
Last month with the launch of Intel Battlemage with the Arc B580 graphics card, there was fairly nice open-source GPU compute performance but with some outliers... Today it's a pleasure to report that with the newest open-source GPU compute stack as of this past week, there are some nixe Xe2 / Battlemage improvements for enhancing the performance of some OpenCL workloads and also correcting the performance of some workloads that were in poor standing on launch day.

Oracle OLED Wants To Help Improve The Debugability Of The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 01/14/2025 - 02:25
Oracle today announced the Oracle Linux Enhanced Diagnostics (OLED) as their newest project that aims to enhance the debugability of the Linux kernel...

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