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Arcan 0.6.1 Released With More Features Added To This Open-Source Display Stack

Phoronix - Tue, 11/23/2021 - 19:56
Arcan as an open-source display server stack originally built atop a game engine and embracing VR/XR, and pushing forward on other new technologies is out with a new version...

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...

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