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Linux 5.19 Allows Using TRIM To Zero-Out Sectors On Supported eMMC

Phoronix - Tue, 05/31/2022 - 06:30
Last week the (e)MMC storage new feature code landed into the Linux 5.19 merge window...

NixOS 22.05 Released With New Graphical Installer

Phoronix - Tue, 05/31/2022 - 05:05
NixOS as the Linux distribution built around the unique Nix package manager is out with its first release of the year...

OpenJPH 0.9 Released For Further Speeding Up Open-Source High-Throughput JPEG 2000

Phoronix - Mon, 05/30/2022 - 19:36
While JPEG XL is regarded as the next-generation JPEG standard and JPEG 2000 never quite took off to supersede the original JPEG standard, there are open-source projects continuing to work on this image compression standard. OpenJPH 0.9 was released last week as the open-source high-throughput JPEG 2000 implementation and with this new version comes even more performance gains...

Raspberry Pi Sense HAT Joystick Driver Lands In Linux 5.19

Phoronix - Mon, 05/30/2022 - 19:02
This weekend Linus Torvalds landed the Raspberry Pi Sense HT Joystick driver into the Linux 5.19 kernel as part of the input subsystem updates...

OverlayFS Adding Support For IDMAPPED Layers For Various Benefits

Phoronix - Mon, 05/30/2022 - 17:46
Sent in this morning for the Linux 5.19 merge window were the OverlayFS updates of which the main feature addition this cycle is support for IDMAPPED layers...

LoongArch CPU Port Might Still Land For Linux 5.19

Phoronix - Mon, 05/30/2022 - 17:27
One of the open questions this merge window is whether the MIPS64-based LoongArch CPU architecture port of the kernel will manage to land for the Linux 5.19 cycle. There has been a discussion this holiday weekend by upstream kernel developers and looks like it may still land, but possibly without necessary hardware drivers included...

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