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systemd's mkosi-initrd Talked Up As Better Alternative To Current Initrd Handling

Phoronix - Wed, 09/14/2022 - 21:30
Red Hat engineer and systemd developer Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek presented on Monday at the Linux Plumbers Conference on a new design for inital RAM disks (initrd) making use of the new systemd mkosi-initrd project...

Linux Kernel Live Patching Working Fairly Well For Millions Of Meta Servers

Phoronix - Wed, 09/14/2022 - 20:02
Meta/Facebook has turned to kernel live-patching (KLP) with Red Hat's Kpatch the the Linux kernel livepatch infrastructure to handle live updates to "several million servers". Meta engineers shared during this week's Linux Plumbers Conference around the successes they've had with it as well as troubles encountered along the way...

Mesa 22.3 Lands S3TC Texture Compression Software Fallback

Phoronix - Wed, 09/14/2022 - 18:05
As a follow-up to the recent article about Mesa preparing a software fallback for S3TC, that code was merged for next quarter's Mesa 22.3...

Linux 6.1 To Try Enabling HID++ For All Logitech Bluetooth Devices

Phoronix - Wed, 09/14/2022 - 17:36
A change queued in HID-next ahead of the Linux 6.1 cycle aims to enable HID++ protocol usage for all Logitech Bluetooth devices...

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