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An interesting Linux kernel patch series was posted this week to address inconsistent NUMA imbalancing behavior for at least some workloads. In such cases these patches address performance differences seen over the past number of Linux kernel releases going on for a while...

Linux Patches Aim To Mitigate An Inconsistent Performance / NUMA Imbalancing Issue  Phoronix

In addition to Linux 5.19 being the kernel set to have DG2/Alchemist graphics support in better shape with the IDs now (finally) being added and compute support being ready, this next kernel should boast improved power management handling for these "Alchemist" Arc Graphics GPUs...

The Solarflare "SFC" network driver within the Linux kernel for their high performance network adapters, owned by Xilinx and now owned by AMD, is seeing some restructuring with the next version of the Linux kernel. The intention is on shifting older network hardware to a separate kernel module/driver so improvements and new hardware support can be the focus with this main Solarflare Linux network driver...

AMD/Xilinx Solarflare Network Driver Restructuring Queued For Linux 5.19  Phoronix

MSM DRM driver and Freedreno creator Rob Clark continues leading the charge on open-source Qualcomm Adreno graphics/display support for Linux in this effort that started out as a reverse-engineering project years ago. This past week Rob sent in the last batch of MSM Direct Rendering Manager driver updates intended for the Linux 5.19 kernel...

With the tenth iteration of the LoongArch CPU architecture patches published on Saturday, it's looking like work is settling down and this Chinese MIPS-derived, RISC-V-inspired architecture could soon be going mainline...

LoongArch Patches Updated A Tenth Time For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

10 Keyboard Shortcuts That Work on Both Windows and Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

For those using Keychron keyboards for being wireless, mechanical keyboards they will be better supported with the Linux 5.19 kernel...

Steps to Install MySQL on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Linux  Linux Shout

How to Fix Static Noise Issue in Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Fix Static Noise Issue in Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Getting To Know the Linux Filesystem  Tom's Hardware

How to Install Ubuntu 22.04 Linux on Windows with Hyper-V  Linux Shout

Merged this week were some minor changes to AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D OpenGL open-source driver around the shader selector code. One of the changes in particular though is noteworthy...

Released on Friday was OpenJPEG 2.5 as the newest update to this open-source JPEG 2000 image library. Notable with this new release for this BSD 2-clause library is now supporting high-throughput "HTJ2K" decoding...

Released on Friday was systemd 251-rc3 as what should be the last planned release candidate for this first major feature update since last December...

systemd 251 Nears Release With Last Planned Test  Phoronix

It was another week of seeing lots of Plasma Wayland session fixes and improvements...