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Linux Kernel Power Management Targeting Memory

Tuesday, 09 April 2013 21:01 Phoronix

One of the areas of hardware power management that can yield a surprising amount of power-savings but is often overlooked comes down to the system memory. Fortunately, new Linux kernel patches continue to be written for improving the Linux kernel RAM power management...

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LLVM/Clang Makes Progress On Building LibreOffice

Tuesday, 09 April 2013 08:08 Phoronix

LLVM's Clang C/C++ compiler has been making much progress in recent months on being able to build high-priority open-source/Linux software packages. When using the latest LLVM/Clang compiler, it appears to be in good shape for handling LibreOffice...

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Red Hat Releases JBoss Data Grid 6.1

Tuesday, 09 April 2013 03:16 The H

The distributed in-memory database was developed for cloud use and provides a highly scalable cache which reduces response times and increases reliability for applications using it...

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Facebook's HipHop 2.0 Virtual Machine Is Very Fast

Tuesday, 09 April 2013 00:51 Phoronix

Released last month by Facebook was their open-source HipHOp "HHVM" 2.0 virtual machine. Benchmarks of HHVM at Phoronix show that the code does live up to Facebook's performance claims...

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Qt 5.1 Alpha Is Out With iOS, Android, New Features

Monday, 08 April 2013 07:06 Phoronix

In preparation for the upcoming release of Qt 5.1, the alpha release of this first major update to the Qt5 tool-kit is now available...

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Kernel Prepatch 3.9-rc6

Sunday, 07 April 2013 23:03 LWN

The 3.9-rc6 kernel prepatch is out. Linus says: "Nothing really exciting stands out, I think the appended ShortLog gives a good overview for people who want to wallow in the details… Things seem to be on track, which means that unless something comes up, rc7 will probably be the last...

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