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Peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) hardware continues to push the boundaries of computing thanks to advances in transfer speeds, the number of available lanes for simultaneous data de…
Discover how ZFS rapidly gained popularity from its inception at Sun, leading to the rise of OpenZFS. Learn about its journey in the second part of our series.
QUIC version 1 is officially formalized, and QUIC deployments will now move away from using temporary draft versions to the newly minted version 1.
In V8 v9.1 we’re improving V8 performance by 5–15% with Sparkplug: a new, non-optimizing JavaScript compiler.
We performed experiments to find out how different Linux system calls perform for available devices.
I usually write about security features or techniques on Windows. But today’s blog is not directly related to any security topics, other than the usual added risk that any new system call introduces. However, it’s an interesting addition to the I/O world in Windows that could be useful for developers and I thought it…
At RIPE 81, a group of enthusiastic researchers and practitioners from industry and academia discussed with the RIPE community what role RIRs and LIRs could take on in the SCION next-generation Internet architecture. More than 80 BoF participants discussed this question, wanting to learn more about…
Today we're excited to announce WebContainers, a new type of WebAssembly-based operating system that boots instantly and enables Node.js environments to run natively in-browser.
A year ago at Mozilla we started to improve Firefox stability on Linux. This effort quickly became an example of good synergies between FOSS.
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.2 "Nakatomi Socrates", the second update of the NetBSD 9 release branch.
By Kevin Dangoor Back in December 2019, I first wrote about Goliath, Khan Academy’s project to migrate our ... Read more
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
Spaceflight, from the beginning, has depended on computers – both on the ground and in the spacecraft. SpaceX has carried it to a new level. We recently spoke with Steven Gerding, Dragon’s software development lead, about the special challenges software development has for SpaceX's many missions.
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Learn common performance pitfalls and discover techniques to optimize your DISTINCT PostgreSQL queries. Read the full article on the Tiger Data blog.
Is it ok to have if clauses that will basically never be run? Surely, there must be some performance cost to that...
Discover the strengths of FreeBSD in this article. Learn about its advanced networking, performance, security, and compatibility features that set it apart.
Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres, and Dan R. K. Ports, University of Washington
xenia is a BSD licensed open source research project for emulating Xbox 360 games on modern PCs.
Fedora Linux 34 is released and ready for you to install or upgrade today.
A series of posts about QEMU internals:
People upload hundreds of millions of videos to Facebook every day. Making sure every video is delivered at the best quality — with the highest resolution and as little buffering as possible — mean…
