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Another Sizable Performance Optimization To Benefit Network Code With Linux 5.17

Phoronix - Tue, 11/23/2021 - 18:39
Last week I wrote about a big TCP performance optimization having been queued up into net-next for Linux 5.17. That optimization can yield significant TCP throughput improvements especially with today's high-end 100Gb+ network hardware. There is now another separate juicy optimization to benefit the Linux network performance in the next kernel cycle...

Wayland Protocols 1.24 Released With Improvement To DMA-BUF Protocol For Multi-GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 11/23/2021 - 18:09
Wayland Protocols 1.24 is out today as the latest revision to this official collection of the Wayland protocols/specifications. Notable with the 1.24 revision is the introduction of wp_linux_dmabuf_feedback...

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...

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