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FSVERITY/DM-Verity Can Yield Much Better Performance With Multi-Buffer Hashing

Phoronix - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 12:00
In addition to recently working out AES-XTS implementations for AVX2, AVX-512, and other versions for speeding up disk/file encryption, Google's Eric Biggers has additionally been working on some nice performance improvements for the Linux kernel's DM-Verity code...

Valve Publishes Steam Survey Numbers For April 2024

Phoronix - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 08:11
For those that were hoping Steam on Linux numbers would crack the 2% marketshare for April, unfortunately, that didn't happen...

Unleashing the potential of Intel® IPU with Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat News - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 08:00
Red Hat and Intel are collaborating on a joint solution that more seamlessly integrates Intel® IPU with Red Hat OpenShift, propelling cloud and edge computing into a new era of performance and scalability.The solution brings together Intel’s latest leading programmable network device, the Intel® Infrastructure Processing Unit (Intel® IPU) E2000 Series with Red Hat OpenShift. This solution, shown in the following diagram, is designed for performance at scale under real world workloads and opens up a wide array of use cases through the ability to flexibly service chain network functions at

Proposal Raised To Deprecate "-Ofast" For The LLVM/Clang Compiler

Phoronix - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 03:00
Some that crave the absolute best possible performance sometimes build their software with the "-Ofast" optimization level that is a step above "-O3" but comes with the risk of potentially unsafe math. LLVM developers are now weighing whether to deprecate -Ofast to either remove it or have it just be an alias for the -O3 optimizations...

SDL 3.1.2 Preview Prefers PipeWire Over PulseAudio, Fixes XWayland Mouse Warp

Phoronix - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 01:23
The newest SDL3 development release is out today with PipeWire preferred over PulseAudio and other changes...

Nano 8.0 Text Editor Released With Modern Bindings Option

Phoronix - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 00:47
Kicking off a new month of open-source releases is the release of the GNU Nano 8.0 text editor...

Serpent OS Close To Having A System Installer & Being Able To Test On Real Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 00:00
Serpent OS lead developer Ikey Doherty published a monthly status update for this original Linux distribution, which points to having a working OS installer soon so users can begin trying out this creation on real hardware...

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