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FWUPD Linux Firmware Updater Prepares "Best Known Configuration" Feature

Phoronix - Mon, 11/29/2021 - 21:37
The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) and FWUPD on their great upward trajectory has in recent times been expanding beyond their initial focus of desktop/laptop hardware to supporting more server platforms for firmware updating. The latest feature driven by their growing server interests is "best known configuration" handling for where there are multiple independently-versioned firmware packages for a given system and may be support recommendations or potential version conflicts between the the different firmware packages...

Amazon Linux 2022 Benchmarks - Offers Competitive Performance Against Ubuntu, CentOS

Phoronix - Mon, 11/29/2021 - 19:00
Last week Amazon Web Services released Amazon Linux 2022 in preview form and since then I've been trying out their new cloud-optimized Linux distribution. It's been working out well on AWS (to no surprise) but also great was the level of performance provided by this now-Fedora-based distribution.

Anyone can compile open source code in these three simple steps

opensource.com - Mon, 11/29/2021 - 16:00

There are many ways to install software, but you get an option not available elsewhere with open source: You can compile the code yourself. The classic three-step process to compile source code:


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A Step-By-Step Guide to Installing Xubuntu 20.04 Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 11/29/2021 - 12:50
The post A Step-By-Step Guide to Installing Xubuntu 20.04 Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Xubuntu is a popular lightweight Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu. It ships with an Xfce desktop environment which is light, stable, and highly configurable. Being a lightweight distribution, Xubuntu is a perfect

The post A Step-By-Step Guide to Installing Xubuntu 20.04 Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux 5.16-rc3 Released With Alder Lake ITMT Fix, Other Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 11/29/2021 - 06:50
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.16-rc3 with plenty of fixes included. With it being US Thanksgiving week, he's also having fun with this kernel by having adjusted the codename to "Gobble Gobble" in reference to turkeys...

PHP 8.1 Benchmarks - Continuing The Nice Performance Trajectory

Phoronix - Sun, 11/28/2021 - 22:13
PHP 8.1 released on Thursday as the latest major feature release for this programming language. In this article are some benchmarks of PHP 8.1.0 on an AMD EPYC powered Linux server compared to prior releases going as far back as PHP 5.6.

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