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Linux is reverting the STIBP support due to major slowdowns in Linux 4.20

Linux 4.20 has shown major performance issues and the reason behind this regression was Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors (STIBP), as shared by Phoronix yesterday. This support is…

5 years ago

It’s Black Friday: But what’s the business (and developer) cost of downtime?

Black Friday is back, and, as you've probably already noticed, with a considerable vengeance. According to Adobe Analytics data, online…

5 years ago

Linux 4.20 kernel slower than its previous stable releases, Spectre flaw to be blamed, according to Phoronix

On the 4th of November, Linux 4.20 rc-1 was released with a host of notable changes right from AMD Vega…

5 years ago

Red Hat releases Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 beta; deprecates Btrfs filesystem

Earlier this month, Red Hat released RHEL 7.6. Now, Red Hata Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 beta version is available with…

5 years ago

Uber becomes Gold member of the Linux Foundation

Yesterday, at Uber Open Summit 2018, the company announced that it is joining the Linux Foundation as a Gold Member…

5 years ago

Facebook GEneral Matrix Multiplication (FBGEMM), high performance kernel library, open sourced, to run deep learning models efficiently

Yesterday (on the 7th of November), Facebook open-sourced its high-performance kernel library FBGEMM: Facebook GEneral Matrix Multiplication. This library offers…

5 years ago

Kernel 4.20-rc1 is out

Linus Torvalds announced on 4th November that Kernel 4.20-rc1 is tagged and pushed out, and the merge window is closed.…

5 years ago

Microsoft releases ProcDump for Linux, Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool

Microsoft developer, David Fowler revealed ‘ProcDump for Linux’, a Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool, over the weekend on…

5 years ago

Facebook open sources set of Linux kernel products including BPF, Btrfs, Cgroup2, and others to address production issues

Yesterday, Facebook open sourced a suite of Linux kernel components and tools. This suite includes products that can be used…

6 years ago

Fedora 29 released with Modularity, Silverblue, and more

After releasing Fedora 29 beta last month, the Fedora community announced the stable release of Fedora 29. This is the…

6 years ago