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PAPPL 1.1 Nears Release As Modern Open-Source Printer Application Framework

Phoronix - Tue, 11/23/2021 - 16:00
While OpenPrinting is now leading development of the CUPS print server, PAPPL continues to be developed by CUPS founder Michael Sweet as a modern open-source printer application framework. PAPPL 1.1 as a big feature release is on the way...

Amazon Linux 2022 Released - Based On Fedora With Changes

Phoronix - Tue, 11/23/2021 - 09:15
Amazon Web Services has made Amazon Linux 2022 now publicly available in preview form as the newest version of their Linux distribution...

Libreboot 20211122 Rebases Against Newer Coreboot, Drops "Very Bloated" TianoCore

Phoronix - Tue, 11/23/2021 - 07:39
Libreboot 20211122 has been released as the downstream fork of Coreboot on providing fully free software boot firmware support...

Star Labs StarBook Mk V Support Upstreamed In Coreboot

Phoronix - Tue, 11/23/2021 - 04:11
British Linux PC vendor Star Labs now has support for their StarBook Mk V laptop upstreamed into Coreboot, which marks their second product having this achievement...

New Linux Patch Series Provides A Fresh Take On Intel Indirect Branch Tracking

Phoronix - Tue, 11/23/2021 - 03:25
Last year with Intel "Tiger Lake" was the introduction of Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) for helping fend off return/jump-oriented attacks and as part of CET is hardware Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) support. There have been patch series working to implement CET's IBT support but after having gone through 30 rounds of review and not being merged, a new take on it was submitted today...

ASRock Rack's ROME2D16-2T Makes For A Great EPYC Server Board

Phoronix - Mon, 11/22/2021 - 21:50
For those looking to assemble your own AMD EPYC 7002/7003 series 2P server or workstation, the ASRock Rack ROME2D16-2T we have been testing out for the past quarter and it's been holding up well across our daily benchmarking and other Linux and BSD tasks. The board has been working out very well and is currently available from retailers like NewEgg.

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