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Ubuntu Rethinking Its Initramfs Compression Strategy

Phoronix - Thu, 12/09/2021 - 03:36
While Ubuntu switched from LZ4 to Zstd for compressing its initramfs, they now are finding they were too aggressive in defaulting to Zstd with the highest compression level of 19. Due to speed and memory consumption concerns, they are looking at lowering their Zstd compression level...

AMD Linux EDAC Driver Prepares For Zen 4, RDDR5 / LRDDR5 Memory

Phoronix - Thu, 12/09/2021 - 02:55
AMD's Linux engineers continue preparing for next-gen EPYC server processors based on Zen 4 and supporting DDR5 memory...

Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor Moving To The Linux Foundation - Backed By Arm, Microsoft

Phoronix - Wed, 12/08/2021 - 22:20
The Cloud-Hypervisor open-source project started by Intel a few years ago as a Rust-written VMM focused on cloud workloads is now going to be hosted by the Linux Foundation...

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