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Red Hat's “Corporate Banking Innovation Survey”: Industry transformation & challenges — now and what's next

Red Hat News - Mon, 05/16/2022 - 12:00

The newly released, inaugural edition of the Corporate Banking Innovation Survey report and accompanying webinar, highlighted top-of-mind corporate banking trends and forward-looking perspectives from a global assembly of industry leaders.

PAPPL 1.2 Released With Full Localization Support, More IPP Features

Phoronix - Mon, 05/16/2022 - 08:36
PAPPL as the free software project started by CUPS founder Michael Sweet after departing Apple more than two years ago, this C-based framework/library for creating CUPS Printer Applications is out with a major feature release...

Linux Patches Aim To Mitigate An Inconsistent Performance / NUMA Imbalancing Issue

Phoronix - Sun, 05/15/2022 - 19:57
An interesting Linux kernel patch series was posted this week to address inconsistent NUMA imbalancing behavior for at least some workloads. In such cases these patches address performance differences seen over the past number of Linux kernel releases going on for a while...

Linux Adding A Quirk To Improve Power Management For Intel Arc "Alchemist" GPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 05/15/2022 - 18:28
In addition to Linux 5.19 being the kernel set to have DG2/Alchemist graphics support in better shape with the IDs now (finally) being added and compute support being ready, this next kernel should boast improved power management handling for these "Alchemist" Arc Graphics GPUs...

AMD/Xilinx Solarflare Network Driver Restructuring Queued For Linux 5.19

Phoronix - Sun, 05/15/2022 - 18:06
The Solarflare "SFC" network driver within the Linux kernel for their high performance network adapters, owned by Xilinx and now owned by AMD, is seeing some restructuring with the next version of the Linux kernel. The intention is on shifting older network hardware to a separate kernel module/driver so improvements and new hardware support can be the focus with this main Solarflare Linux network driver...

Qualcomm MSM Driver With Linux 5.19 Adds DSC, Preps For Mesa Driver Within A VM

Phoronix - Sun, 05/15/2022 - 17:32
MSM DRM driver and Freedreno creator Rob Clark continues leading the charge on open-source Qualcomm Adreno graphics/display support for Linux in this effort that started out as a reverse-engineering project years ago. This past week Rob sent in the last batch of MSM Direct Rendering Manager driver updates intended for the Linux 5.19 kernel...

LongArch Patches Updated A Tenth Time For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 05/15/2022 - 06:26
With the tenth iteration of the LoongArch CPU architecture patches published on Saturday, it's looking like work is settling down and this Chinese MIPS-derived, RISC-V-inspired architecture could soon be going mainline...

Keychron C-Series/K-Series Keyboards To Be Better Supported With Linux 5.19

Phoronix - Sun, 05/15/2022 - 02:28
For those using Keychron keyboards for being wireless, mechanical keyboards they will be better supported with the Linux 5.19 kernel...

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