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Google Posts Experimental Linux Code For "Device Memory TCP"

Phoronix - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 21:18
Google engineers have published early code around "Device Memory TCP" (a.k.a. Devmem TCP) as a proposal for transferring data to/from device memory efficiently by avoiding the need to copy the data to a host memory buffer...

GRUB 2.12 RC Delivers Two Years Worth Of Bootloader Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 20:20
GRUB 2.12 had been talked about for a mid-2022 release while one year later we are finally greeted by the first release candidate for this next major open-source bootloader release...

SUSE Announces Its Forking RHEL, To Maintain A RHEL-Compatible Distro

Phoronix - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 18:15
Yesterday Oracle published an interesting announcement and doubled down on their intentions of keeping Oracle Linux compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux following Red Hat's controversial announcement last month. Today is another very interesting response to Red Hat's recent shift, this time from the SUSE Linux folks...

Fwupd 1.9.3 Adds Linux Firmware Updating Support For A Few New Devices

Phoronix - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 17:55
Richard Hughes of Red Hat and the lead developer behind the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) has released Fwupd 1.9.3 as the newest feature update to this open-source solution for carrying out system and peripheral firmware updates on Linux...

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