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FreeBSD Working On A New Installer, Updates To Their Linux Compatibility Layer

Phoronix - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 18:16
The FreeBSD project just published their Q2-2021 report concerning all of their different development activities from April through June...

KDE Making It Easy To Tune Your Laptop's Power Profile, Other Improvements Land

Phoronix - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 17:55
KDE developers show no signs of slowing down during the pandemic or being distracted over the summer months as it was another busy week advancing this open-source desktop environment...

Intel To Finally Remove Cannon Lake Graphics Support From Their Linux Kernel Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 12:00
Intel "Cannon Lake" processors were rare in the first place with being limited to the Core i3 8121U but given that no production SKU ever materialized with the "Gen10" graphics enabled, Intel's Linux engineers are finally moving ahead in eliminating the rest of the Cannon Lake / Gen10 graphics support code...

Debian 11.0 "Bullseye" Gets An August Release Date

Phoronix - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 04:09
The Debian release team has just announced their planned release date for Debian 11...

Trying Out The "Folios" Patches On An AMD Linux Server

Phoronix - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 03:48
One of the low-level exciting kernel advancements being worked on at the moment is the new "folios" struct for improving Linux memory management. Tests by those involved found that in some conditions Linux kernel builds for example could be up to 7% faster. Given the recent folios v14 patches being published, I took them for a spin on an AMD EPYC server to see the impact on overall performance...

Ubuntu Touch Planning Path For VoLTE/4G Support

Phoronix - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 01:34
In addition to still working on moving from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04 LTS for its base, Ubuntu Touch has also begun engaging in another important project: supporting Voice over LTE (VoLTE) with Ubuntu Touch...

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