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How to Install Lua Scripting Language in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 09/26/2022 - 12:30
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Lua is a free and open-source, powerful, robust, minimal, and embeddable scripting language. It’s extensible and interpreted scripting language that is dynamically typed, and run by interpreting bytecode with a register-based virtual machine. Lua

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Meeting the explosive demands of 5G networks

Red Hat News - Mon, 09/26/2022 - 12:00

In this post: 

  • Understand how an innovative design ensures terabit performance for the 5G user plane function (UPF)

  • Learn how the flexibility of software and offload to specialized hardware raises overall network performance

Rusticl Support For AMD RadeonSI Driver Being Worked On

Phoronix - Mon, 09/26/2022 - 12:00
Rusticl as the Rust-written OpenCL implementation for Mesa's Gallium3D as a newer and modern-focused CL alternative to the existing "Clover" code may soon see mainline support for working with the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for supporting modern AMD graphics processors...

Linux 6.0-rc7 Released - Linux 6.0 Will Hopefully Release Next Sunday

Phoronix - Mon, 09/26/2022 - 05:23
Last week Linux 6.0-rc6 came in tiny due to many of the upstream kernel developers having been in Dublin for LPC 2022 and other events. Linus Torvalds had been fearing an uptick in activity this week as a result, but he's been pleasantly surprised that Linux 6.0-rc7 remains on the lighter side...

Btrfs Async Buffered Writes Slated For Linux 6.1 - 2x Throughput Improvement

Phoronix - Sun, 09/25/2022 - 22:20
Queued up in the Btrfs for-next Git repository ahead of the Linux 6.1 merge window is support for async buffered writes that can offer a more than two times throughput improvement...

Archinstall 2.5.1 Released With A Number Of Fixes For The Arch Linux Installer

Phoronix - Sun, 09/25/2022 - 19:43
Over the past year and a half of being on the Arch Linux install media, archinstall has made it dramatically quicker and easier to get this popular Linux distribution installed. Out today is Archinstall 2.5.1 with a number of fixes and other changes for this easy-to-use Arch Linux installer...

New Car & Flight Controller HID Drivers Ready To Race With Linux 6.1

Phoronix - Sun, 09/25/2022 - 19:35
Two new HID drivers are set to premiere with the upcoming Linux 6.1 merge window for car and flight simulators...

GNOME 43.1 To Support Wayland On The AMD-Xilinx Kria KR260

Phoronix - Sun, 09/25/2022 - 17:55
Earlier this year AMD-Xilinx announced a Linux-powered robotics starter kit making use of Xilinx's Kria KR26 SOM featuring a Zynq Ultrascale+ with four Cortex-A53 cores and Mali graphics. While robotics focused, there is a DisplayPort output and over the summer Canonical has been working to get this board playing nicely with a Wayland-powered GNOME desktop...

Generic EFI Compressed Boot Support Prepped Ahead Of Linux 6.1

Phoronix - Sun, 09/25/2022 - 17:32
Linux kernel developer Ard Biesheuvel has been working on a patch series implementing EFI generic compressed boot support that can be easily used by architectures like AArch64, LoongArch, and RISC-V...

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