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Given the choice between GNOME Shell and KDE Plasma Desktop, I would have traditionally chosen GNOME Shell.

However, these days the only...

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While cool, this seems more like a research project for now?

The point about the potential energy savings when embedding optimising JIT compilers...

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Just saw this post by Maxim on the GCC ML:



I have a lot of respect for people who simply own up to any errors/mistakes they've...

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Maxim's conversion was apparently a very useful reference for tweaking the heuristics in reposurgeon by helping to flag some overly conservative lifts...

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It's worth noting that the work Maxim has done on his git-svn conversion has helped improve reposurgeon and the gcc git conversion in general too, which...

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Looks to me like the Debian developers who voted considered the options carefully and decided that it was in Debian's best interests to focus on systemd...

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(emphasis mine)

Ad 1./:

Good on you and AMD for doing this. FWIW I think it's nice to have a CLI/TUI/GUI agnostic way of tweaking...

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If you were me, who would you approach about such a "lift"?

I'd be willing to attempt to do some of the monkey work if I had access...

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I guess that answers my question, thanks....

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I'm not a graphics/kernel developer and currently do not see myself devoting the resources to become one. However, I would be fine with funding a competent...

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Does anybody know of a way to fund development for this? It's not the first time this solution has been mooted IIRC.

Let's be honest: In...

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How did you arrive at that conclusion?

FWIW, I don't think the end goal for reposurgeon is to improve git-svn; rather, I think the goal is...

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I don't think it's just ESR working on the reposurgeon GCC conversion at this point though?

AIUI, there are 3 core reposurgeon developers...

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Judging specifically by the sharp rise in context switch time (as shown by the ctx_clock and StressNG benchmarks) from 17.10 to 18.04, that indeed appears...

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Why not just use LVM for that?...

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It appears that F2FS has both an fsck tool and a defrag tool (both from the f2fs-tools package).

Have we reached the point where F2FS is...