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

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

Kernel 4.20-rc1 is out

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Linus Torvalds announced on 4th November that Kernel 4.20-rc1 is tagged and pushed out, and the merge window is closed.  Linux 4.20 brings a...
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Microsoft releases ProcDump for Linux, a Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool

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Microsoft developer, David Fowler revealed ‘ProcDump for Linux’, a Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool, over the weekend on November 3. ProcDump is a...
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Facebook open sources a set of Linux kernel products including BPF, Btrfs, Cgroup2, and...

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

Fedora 29 released with Modularity, Silverblue, and more

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After releasing Fedora 29 beta last month, the Fedora community announced the stable release of Fedora 29. This is the first release to include...
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Btrfs makes multiple performance improvements to be shipped in the next Linux Kernel release

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In order to prepare for the Linux 4.20 release, there are multiple performance improvements made to the Btrfs file-system. These changes are to be...

Linux 4.19 kernel releases with open arms and AIO-based polling interface; Linus back to...

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It was last month when Linus Torvalds took a break from kernel development. During his break, he had assigned Greg Kroah-Hartman as Linux's temporary...
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Another bug in Windows 10 October update that can cause data loss

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Earlier this month, the Windows 10 October update had problems with files being deleted off users’ computers. After which Microsoft had to pause the...
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Ubuntu 18.10 ‘Cosmic Cuttlefish’ releases with focus on AI development, multi-cloud and edge deployments,...

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“Ubuntu is now the world’s reference platform for AI engineering and analytics.” -Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical. Yesterday (on 18th October), Canonical announced the release of...
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KUnit: A new unit testing framework for Linux Kernel

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On Tuesday, Google engineer Brendan Higgins announced an experimental set of 31 patches by introducing KUnit as a new Linux kernel unit testing framework...