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GNU Hurd Makes Progress On AArch64, Writing Translators In Rust
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (195+ words) The GNU Hurd project recently issued their Q2'2026 status report to outline recently development efforts. The Hurd is still happening!.. - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals GNU Hurd Makes Progress On…...
Glibc Introduces /etc/tunables.conf For System-Wide Tunables
2+ week, 5+ day ago (203+ words) Red Hat has contributed new system-wide tunables infrastructure to the GNU C Library "glibc" that allows specifying system-wide tunables via the new /etc/tunables.conf configuration file... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage…...
MGLRU Improvement Yielding Nice Gains On Linux 7.2: MongoDB 30~100% Higher Throughput
3+ week, 4+ day ago (216+ words) The many memory management "MM" related improvements were recently merged to Git for the Linux 7.2 kernel. As typical most kernel cycles, some of the low-level improvements can yield nice efficiency wins and better performance in different areas... - Categories Computers Display…...
Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (217+ words) Yet another performance optimization merged for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel is improving the speed of anon_pipe_write, the kernel function used for writing data into anonymous/unnamed pipes such as when using shell pipelines or standard streams from applications... - Categories Computers Display…...
YSERVER: Modern X11 Server Written In Rust With The Help Of Claude Code
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (192+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals YSERVER: Modern X11 Server Written In Rust With The Help Of Claude Code Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded…...
Benchmarking The BORE Scheduler Performance With CachyOS Linux
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (97+ words) Phoronix Benchmarking The BORE Scheduler Performance With CachyOS Linux: Earlier this week I ran benchmarks of different CachyOS Linux kernel flavors that proved interesting from the performance overhead of their hardened kernel build to various other interesting performancr takeaways. One…...
OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (227+ words) Last October engineers at Meta announced OpenZL as a format-aware compression framework. OpenZL aims to be speedy yet capable of delivering high compression ratios depending upon what is being compressed. OpenZL is viewed as their next leap in data compression…...
Popular Rust-Based Database Turns To AI For Up To 1.5x Speedup, Other Improvements
3+ mon, 3+ hour ago (220+ words) Redb is one of the open-source, embed-friendly key-value databases written in the Rust programming language. Redb is ACID-compliant while known for being high performance and with its new Redb 4.1 release is even faster thanks to some improvements authored by Claude…...
Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (221+ words) Meta's great Linux engineering team have been working through some fresh performance optimizations recently from optimizing /proc/interrupts outputs to renewing their investment in jemalloc. A new Linux kernel patch this week provides another optimization to avoid a possible situation…...
HarfBuzz 14.0 Released With New GPU Accelerated Text Rendering Library
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (389+ words) HarfBuzz is the open-source text shaping engine originally born out of the FreeType project and now widely-used by GNOME, KDE, Java, Flutter, Godot, Chromium, LibreOffice, and countless other applications. HarfBuzz 14.0 released today and making this release quite exciting is introducing…...