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ZFS Still Trying To Compete With EXT4 & Btrfs On Linux 27 Aug 2013 | 12:29 pm
With the recent release of ZFS On Linux 0.6.2 that provides an open-source native Linux kernel module implementation of the Sun/Oracle ZFS file-system, the performance is faster, there are greater Lin...
Virt-Manager Gains UI Snapshot Support 27 Aug 2013 | 09:39 am
The popular open-source virt-manager utility for managing virtual machines (commonly Linux KVM instances) now has a user-interface for finally dealing with VM snapshots...
LLVM's LLDB Improves Remote Debugging 27 Aug 2013 | 09:15 am
An Intel developer has committed an improved platform command to LLVM's debugger for improved interfacing with remote machines...
Cairo 1.12.16 Takes Care A Whole Lot Of Bugs 27 Aug 2013 | 05:59 am
Beyond making a whole lot of Intel X.Org driver changes and some recent yet-to-be-merged performance improvements, Chris Wilson has put out a new release of the Cairo graphics library...
GNOME Playing Around With New Middle-Click Action 27 Aug 2013 | 05:36 am
While traditionally the middle-click mouse button has been a convenient way to paste rather than Ctrl + V on Unix-like systems, GNOME designers are looking to change it up for their desktop...
Mir 0.0.10 Released, Call For Multi-Monitor Testing 27 Aug 2013 | 04:02 am
The Canonical team working on the Mir Display Server for Ubuntu Linux released Mir 0.0.10 today. Separately, they're calling for Mir multi-monitor testing in the next few days...
OpenGL KHR_debug Patch-Set Posted For Mesa 27 Aug 2013 | 01:21 am
The independent open-source developer who sought crowd-funding for working on KHR_debug support for Mesa was successful in his fundraising goal and delivered today in posting 15 patches for Mesa to im...
SQLite 3.8 Release Brings Partial Indexes, NGQP 26 Aug 2013 | 08:20 pm
For those relying upon the widely-used SQLite relational database system, version 3.8.0 is now available with support for partial indexes, the Next Generation Query Planner (NGQP), new pragmas, and ot...
Manjaro 0.8.7 Has New Pacman Front-End 26 Aug 2013 | 06:26 pm
Manjaro 0.8.7 was released this morning, the latest update for the very nice and easy to use Linux distribution derived from Arch Linux...
AMD Gallium3D Shader Optimizations Yield Big Gains 26 Aug 2013 | 04:24 pm
With it looking like the R600 SB shader optimization back-end might be enabled for AMD's popular Radeon Gallium3D graphics driver, here are fresh benchmarks looking at the performance impact of enabli...
