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Qt 5.15 LTS Support Extended An Additional Two Years - For Their Paying Subscribers

Phoronix - Fri, 04/01/2022 - 00:24
The Qt Company announced they will be maintaining the Qt 5.15 long-term support (LTS) code-base by an additional two years...

Poking At A Big NUMA Benchmark Regression In Linux 5.18 Git

Phoronix - Thu, 03/31/2022 - 21:30
There still is a few days left to the Linux 5.18 merge window but already I've started firing up benchmarks of this new kernel on a handful of desktops and servers so far. One benchmark though in particular has been showing a staggering performance drop on Linux 5.18 on multiple systems but overall Linux 5.18 in my testing thus far has been working out well...

openSUSE Tumbleweed Gets First D-Installer Public Experimental Release

Phoronix - Thu, 03/31/2022 - 19:27
Earlier this year was news of (open)SUSE developing "D-Installer" as a new web-based distro installer. D-Installer is to complement YaST's existing Qt/CLI installer front-ends and would open up Web UI support, a better UI, and enhanced integration via the D-Bus installer service. The first public release of openSUSE with this new installer is now available for testing...

Radeon's ROCm 5.1 Released With CRIU Support, More RDNA Enablement

Phoronix - Thu, 03/31/2022 - 18:25
Building off the Radeon ROCm 5.0 series introduced in February, AMD is ending out Q1 by launching the Radeon Open eCosystem 5.1 series...

XWayland 22.1.1 Released - Fixes Some Windowed Apps Stuck To 58 FPS

Phoronix - Thu, 03/31/2022 - 18:01
It's been over one month already since the release of XWayland 22.1 while this morning v22.1.1 was issued with a handful of bug fixes...

Radeon Software For Linux 22.10 Driver Being Prepared For Release

Phoronix - Thu, 03/31/2022 - 17:50
At the moment the Radeon Software for Linux 21.50.2 is AMD's latest packaged graphics driver intended for enterprise Linux distributions. But Radeon Software for Linux 22.10 should soon be announced and can already be fetched from their package archive...

Apple M1 NVMe Linux Driver Out For Review

Phoronix - Thu, 03/31/2022 - 17:28
Sent out last week amid the busy Linux 5.18 merge window days were the patch series wiring up an Apple NVMe driver for use with the M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max SoCs...

Fedora Looks To Better Onboarding For IoT/Edge Devices

Phoronix - Thu, 03/31/2022 - 17:08
For Fedora 37 later this year the Linux distribution is looking at providing support for zero touch onboarding for IoT / edge devices...

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