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OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 Released With Completed Arm 64-bit Port, Sticks To Using LLVM

Phoronix - Mon, 02/07/2022 - 13:00
OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 was released this FOSDEM weekend for this distribution derived from the once great Mandriva Linux, formerly Mandrake...

NMState: A Declarative Networking Config Tool for Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 02/07/2022 - 12:57
The post NMState: A Declarative Networking Config Tool for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The Linux ecosystem provides numerous ways of configuring networking including the popular Network Manager daemon and command-line tools such as nmcli and nmtui GUI utility. This guide introduces yet another network configuration tool known

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Linux 5.17-rc3 Restores FBDEV Hardware-Accelerated Scrolling, Mixed Bag of Random Stuff

Phoronix - Mon, 02/07/2022 - 04:55
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.17-rc3 as the latest test kernel for Linux 5.17 that should be out as stable before the end of March...

Intel HFI To Premiere In Linux 5.18 For Improving Hybrid CPU Performance/Efficiency

Phoronix - Sun, 02/06/2022 - 23:26
The Linux 5.18 kernel this spring is adding support for the Intel Hardware Feedback Interface (HFI, also talked about sometimes as the Enhanced Hardware Feedback interface - EHFI)...

FEX-Emu Is Working On Speedy x86/x86_64 Games Support On AArch64, Including Proton

Phoronix - Sun, 02/06/2022 - 20:19
While the Apple M1 SoC is a great piece of hardware, a large part of what has made Apple Silicon so successful with their newest Macs has been their Rosetta 2 software for dynamically translating x86/x86_64 software to run well on these 64-bit Arm systems. Existing applications and games optimized for prior Intel Macs continue running generally in excellent shape on their newest hardware thanks to Rosetta 2. While there is the ongoing Linux bring-up work for Apple Silicon on Linux, the open-source world doesn't currently have that advantage of a compelling Rosetta 2 alternative but the FEX-Emu project hopes to change that outlook...

Improved ASUS Motherboard Sensor Monitoring To Arrive With Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Sun, 02/06/2022 - 19:44
While Linux 5.17 is introducing the ASUS WMI EC Sensors driver for greatly expanding Linux's support for hardware sensor coverage on newer ASUS desktop motherboards, already with Linux 5.18 that driver will be deprecated to make way for a new ASUS EC sensor driver replacement...

Steam Deck Platform Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 02/06/2022 - 18:00
A Linux kernel driver was posted today for platform control support for Valve's upcoming Steam Deck...

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