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SilverStone RM51 Is A Nice 5U Chassis For Large Servers & Workstations

Phoronix - Tue, 01/16/2024 - 08:16
If you are looking for a 5U rack-mountable chassis for a high-end server or workstation, the SilverStone RM51 launched a few months ago as their latest offering in the high-end server enclosure space.

AMD Releases AOMP 18.0-1 Compiler Based On ROCm 6.0, Defaults To -O2 Optimizations

Phoronix - Tue, 01/16/2024 - 05:26
As the first new tagged version of AMD's AOMP LLVM-based OpenMP-focused compiler for offloading to their Instinct / Radeon GPUs, AOMP 18.0-1 was released today with many changes...

Linux 6.8 Brings More Sound Hardware Support For Intel & AMD, Including The Steam Deck

Phoronix - Tue, 01/16/2024 - 05:07
Waiting for pulling into the mainline kernel once Linus Torvalds is back online following Portland's winter storms is the sound subsystem updates for Linux 6.8, which include a lot of new sound hardware support...

Microsoft Releases First CBL-Mariner Linux Distro Update Of 2024

Phoronix - Tue, 01/16/2024 - 04:25
Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution CBL-Mariner that is used for a variety of purposes from Azure to WSL has seen its first release of 2024. While the distribution has at times released up to a few new versions per month, there hadn't been a new release since late November given the holidays...

SQLite 3.45 Released With JSON Functions Adapted To Use JSONB

Phoronix - Tue, 01/16/2024 - 04:05
SQLite 3.45 was released today with the SQLITE_DIRECT_OVERFLOW_READ optimization being enabled by default that can help for apps relying on SQLite and doing a lot of reads of large BLOBs or strings deliver better read performance. There are also query planner improvements while most interesting with SQLite 3.45 is all JSON functions being rewritten to use the new JSONB format...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Ship With Some Extra GNOME Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Tue, 01/16/2024 - 03:00
In addition to the GNOME triple buffering patches that still haven't been merged to Mutter's mainline branch, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and upstream Debian are slated to currently carry a few extra performance optimizations...

Btrfs In Linux 6.8 Transitions Metadata Processing To Using Folios

Phoronix - Mon, 01/15/2024 - 22:33
While not as notable as the Bcachefs additions, more work on XFS online repair, and other file-system updates for Linux 6.8, the Btrfs file-system driver changes for Linux 6.8 were merged last week...

libvirt 10.0 Released With QEMU VM Migration Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 01/15/2024 - 22:02
Libvirt as the virtualization API/toolkit developed by Red Hat for managing virtualization on Linux is out today with its v10.0 release...

openSUSE Prepares For openSUSE Leap 16 Next Year Based On ALP

Phoronix - Mon, 01/15/2024 - 19:52
It shouldn't come as much of a surprise, but openSUSE today reaffirmed that openSUSE Leap 16 will succeed the current Leap 15 series. OpenSUSE Leap 16 will be based on SUSE's Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) codebase...

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