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GNU Coreutils 9.4 Adds Experimental "--enable-systemd" Option, Faster Split

Phoronix - Wed, 08/30/2023 - 00:28
GNU Coreutils 9.4 is out today as the latest version of this collection of utilities common to GNU/Linux systems and other platforms...

Intel Gale Peak, New BPF Features & Other Networking Changes For Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Tue, 08/29/2023 - 23:55
The big set of Linux networking subsystem updates were sent out today for the recently-started Linux 6.6 kernel merge window. There are a number of core networking improvements this cycle, support for various new wired and wireless chipsets, and improvements made to existing Ethernet and WiFi drivers...

Linux 6.6 Adding Randomized Kmalloc Caches For Further System Hardening

Phoronix - Tue, 08/29/2023 - 23:28
To help harden the Linux kernel from memory vulnerabilities and in particular heap spraying, set to be merged into the Linux 6.6 kernel is optional support for randomized slab caches for kmalloc() calls...

Linux 6.6 Lands "Pretty Juicy" IOmap Improvements, Lower Latency With IO_uring

Phoronix - Tue, 08/29/2023 - 20:15
Among the exciting early pull requests to land in the new Linux 6.6 kernel cycle are some nice improvements to the IOmap code that should yield some substantive I/O benefits with this new kernel...

Google Announces C3A Instances Coming, Powered By AmpereOne CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 08/29/2023 - 20:00
Google is using their NEXT'23 conference today to announce that C3A instances are debuting in private preview form for these new AArch64 VMs powered by AmpereOne processors...

EEVDF Scheduler Merged For Linux 6.6, Intel Hybrid Cluster Scheduling Re-Introduced

Phoronix - Tue, 08/29/2023 - 18:40
The EEVDF scheduler code has been merged for the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel. EEVDF replaces the existing CFS scheduler code. There is the likelihood of some performance regressions initially though but the developers will be working to address them as they arise. Additionally, this scheduler pull also re-introduces cluster scheduling for Intel Core hybrid processors...

ClamAV 1.2 Now Extracts UDF Partitions, New systemd Timer

Phoronix - Tue, 08/29/2023 - 18:33
ClamAV 1.2 was released on Monday as the newest version of this open-source, cross-platform anti-virus engine currently maintained by Cisco Systems...

Intel's SVT-AV1 1.7 Video Encoder Delivers Faster Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 08/29/2023 - 18:00
The Intel-led SVT-AV1 open-source AV1 video encoder is out with a major release that delivers on more performance improvements across the board...

Btrfs For Linux 6.6 Brings Fixes, Partially Recovers From Scrub Performance Regression

Phoronix - Tue, 08/29/2023 - 17:55
Btrfs in Linux 6.5 brought various performance improvements and prior to that it was a busy cycle with Linux 6.4 while now with Linux 6.6 the Btrfs file-system driver is mostly centered on delivering fixes...

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