TrueNAS 12.0 CORE Supporting ZFS Async Copy-On-Write
TrueNAS 12.0 CORE, which up until the new TrueNAS / FreeNAS branding unification would have been called FreeNAS, will in its next release support ZFS async copy-on-write functionality...
Intel Cloud Hypervisor 0.6 Released With VFIO Device Hotplug, I/O Improvements
Intel's open-source team responsible for their Rust-based cloud hypervisor today issued a big feature update...
DXVK 1.6 Released With D3D9 Performance Work, Various Game Fixes
DXVK 1.6 is out in time for weekend gamers wishing to enjoy recent Windows games on Linux...
OpenJDK 14 Has Some Performance Improvements But OpenJDK 8 Still Strong
Given this week's general availability release of OpenJDK 14, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at all the major releases from OpenJDK 8 through 14 while looking at the JVM performance across multiple workloads.
Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 Released - Finally Supports SecureBoot, Home Encryption
The Linux Mint crew has released LMDE 4 "Debbie" as their hedge against anything dramatic happening to Ubuntu that would limit their ability to offer Linux Mint and for those preferring the upstream Debian base...
IWD Linux Wireless Daemon Adds Full MAC Randomization, Override Support
Intel's IWD wireless daemon for Linux systems has added full MAC randomization support as well as manual MAC override capabilities, similar to the MAC spoofing capabilities generally offered by other Linux networking components...
Intel Tiger Lake VRR Support Being Worked On For Linux, More PCI IDs Introduced
With the forthcoming Linux 5.7 kernel Intel Tiger Lake "Gen12" Xe graphics are considered stable as in enabled by default but that doesn't mean they are done working on features for the highly-anticipated next-gen Intel graphics...
AMD Begins Focusing On Bug Fixes For Linux 5.7 Graphics Driver Code
Passing the point that new feature code is generally permitted into DRM-Next for in turn hitting the next mainline kernel merge window, AMD's open-source graphics driver developers have been turning their attention to bug fixes for all the new feature code set for Linux 5.7...
Mesa 20.1 Aiming For Release At The End Of May
This should come as little surprise to regular Phoronix readers and those that follow the Mesa release cadence, but Mesa 20.1 as the next quarterly feature release now has a release calendar putting its debut towards the end of May...
os108 9.0 Released As One Of The Few Desktop Operating Systems Based On NetBSD
The os108 project is one of the few (or only?) distributions based on NetBSD currently providing a MATE-based desktop experience atop this BSD. The os108 9.0 release is now available that re-bases against the recent NetBSD 9.0 release while continuing to provide its out-of-the-box desktop goodness...