Category Archives: Linux

OpenJDK Merges Intel's x86-simd-sort For Speeding Up Data Sorting 7~15x

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Earlier this year Intel posted x86-simd-sort as a blazing fast sorting library that makes use of AVX-512. When the popular Numpy began using it they found up to 10~17x faster sorts for 16-bit to 64-bit data types. Today Intel software engineers released x86-simd-sort 3.0 and it also comes minutes after OpenJDK merged a modified version of this speeding sorting code into that reference JDK codebase…

Source: Phoronix – OpenJDK Merges Intel’s x86-simd-sort For Speeding Up Data Sorting 7~15x

How to Install phpPgAdmin on Debian 12

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phpPgAdmin is a web-based software that allows developers, system administrators, and regular users to manage their PostgreSQL database easily via the browser.PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system. phpPgAdmin is written in PHP and is based on the popular phpMyAdmin interface originally written for MySQL administration. This blog post will install PHP, PostgreSQL, and the Apache Web server to create an Apache configuration file for phpPgAdmin. For this setup, we will spend up to 20 minutes.

Source: LXer – How to Install phpPgAdmin on Debian 12

ATO 2014 – Year Two Brings More Speakers and More Attendees to ‘All Things Open’

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For its sophomore outing, there was more of everything. There were more speakers, the event was taking up more space at the Raleigh Convention Center, there were more people attending the event, and there was more swag. All bases were covered.

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Source: FOSS Force – ATO 2014 – Year Two Brings More Speakers and More Attendees to ‘All Things Open’

The end of the Red Hat security-announcements list

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Red Hat has announced
that its longstanding “rhsa-announce” mailing list will be shut down on
October 10. That is the list that receives security advisories for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a whole slew of related products. Anybody who
was counting on that list for Red Hat security advisories will need to find
an alternative; a few options are listed in the announcement.

Source: LWN.net – The end of the Red Hat security-announcements list

[$] The challenge of compiling for verified architectures

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On its surface, the BPF virtual machine resembles many other computer
architectures; it has registers and instructions to perform the usual
operations. But there is a key difference: BPF programs must pass the
kernel’s verifier before they can be run. The verifier imposes a long list
of additional restrictions so that it can prove to itself that any given
program is safe to run; getting past those checks can be a source of
frustration for BPF developers. At the 2023 GNU Tools Cauldron,
José Marchesi looked at the problem of compiling for verified architectures
and how the compiler can generate code that will pass verification.

Source: LWN.net – [$] The challenge of compiling for verified architectures

AMD OpenSIL Will Be Talked About Later This Month At The 2023 OCP Global Summit

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Earlier this year at the OCP Regional Summit in Prague AMD first presented openSIL as their new open-source CPU silicon initialization effort that can integrate with Coreboot and open-source boot firmware solutions. AMD openSIL is currently being prototyped on Genoa platforms but in a few years will eventually replace AGESA on both client and server processors. Later this month at the OCP Global Summit, there will be a new presentation on AMD openSIL…

Source: Phoronix – AMD OpenSIL Will Be Talked About Later This Month At The 2023 OCP Global Summit