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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

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...

Sick of Windows? How to log into and start using Linux  TechRepublic

AWS is making a major commitment to Linux  TechRadar

Is the PinePhone Pro the Linux Phone Daily Driver We've Been Waiting For?  MakeUseOf

Is the PinePhone Pro the Linux Phone Daily Driver We've Been Waiting For?  MUO - MakeUseOf

Dynatrace : OneAgent release notes version 1.229  marketscreener.com

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...

Code execution bug patched in Imunify360 Linux server security suite  ZDNet

Phytium D2000 ARMv8 Mini PC runs Linux, supports gaming with Box64 emulator  CNX Software

AWS commits to update its own Linux every other year  The Register

How to Fix “Command Not Found” Error in Linux  BollyInside

Amazon Web Services has made Amazon Linux 2022 now publicly available in preview form as the newest version of their Linux distribution...

Amazon Linux 2022 Released - Based On Fedora With Changes  Phoronix

Libreboot 20211122 has been released as the downstream fork of Coreboot on providing fully free software boot firmware support...

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

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...

Linux replaces Windows in one German state's bid for software independence  Windows Central

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...