OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Aiming To PGO More Packages, Use IWD For WiFi Connections

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Aiming To PGO More Packages, Use IWD For WiFi Connections

While OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 was just released last month, we are already looking forward to OpenMandriva 4.1 for a number of improvements and some new features...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenMandriva-Lx-4.1-Released

[q2dg]

Why do they want to replace Firewalld? Maybe do they want to use ufw??

[King InuYasha]

Why do they want to replace Firewalld? Maybe do they want to use ufw??

That particular issue has been clarified. It’s about switching to a firewalld frontend that offers a Qt-based GUI. firewall-config is GTK+ rather than Qt, which is less than optimal.

[Grinch]

Using PGO should help the likes of Python, Firefox, OpenSSL, LZ4, MPFR, Ogg, Vorbis, and many other packages they are evaluating for PGO'ing.

Are they not already building Firefox with PGO ? If not that seems weird since Firefox has built-in automated support for building with PGO, which I know x264 has as well (and others I can't recall at the moment). Arch Linux builds Firefox with PGO, anyone know what the case is with Debian/Ubuntu ?

If you want to check yourself, type 'about:buildconfig' in Firefox and look for 'MOZ_PGO=1' in the parameters.