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CUPS 2.4 Coming Next Month, CUPS 2.5 + CUPS 3.0 Already In Planning

Phoronix - Tue, 09/21/2021 - 03:02
An Open Printing micro-conference took place today during the Linux Plumbers Conference 2021 week. While it's hard to get excited about printers in 2021, it is exciting the renewed effort around CUPS with it now being back to effectively led by the community and CUPS founder Michael Sweet who left Apple. CUPS 2.4 is coming as the first feature release in quite a while and then CUPS 2.5 followed by CUPS 3.0 are already being talked about with features being discussed...

OpenVPN DCO Linux Kernel Module Aims To Offer Faster VPN Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 09/21/2021 - 02:31
OpenVPN has been implementing a kernel module for data channel offload (DCO) capabilities to enhance the performance of this virtual private network system...

NVIDIA 470.74 Linux Driver Released With Several Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 21:47
NVIDIA has released their latest 470 series Linux driver point release...

DXVK 1.9.2 Released With More Games In Better Shape

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 21:36
DXVK 1.9.2 is out as the newest version of this key library necessary to the success of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) by translating Direct3D 9/10/11 calls to Vulkan for a much more performant Windows gaming experience on Linux...

Phoronix Ad-Free/Premium Special For Oktoberfest 2021

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 21:10
While Oktoberfest was once again cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic (then again, due to the state of the ad industry / ad-block users we haven't had any European meet-up / open-source gathering in years), the wiesn would have kicked off this past weekend. So as is tradition, there is the Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest sale where you can join the ad-free service as a reduced rate. If you enjoy the daily, original Linux and open-source content on Phoronix with plenty of benchmarking, you can do so at a reduced rate...

Rust Lands Support For The Motorola 68000 Processors

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 21:02
With the m68k community continuing to be active around supporting the vintage Motorola 68000 series with modern open-source software, Rust has now merged support for these old processors...

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