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OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 RC Switches To KDE Plasma 6, Packages Proton

Phoronix - Thu, 07/04/2024 - 18:13
The OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 RC is available for testing over the US holiday weekend or just summer downtime...

Oracle Rolls Out UEK-Next Kernel Based On Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Thu, 07/04/2024 - 08:38
Oracle today published their newest release of UEK-Next, their forward-looking version of the "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel" targeting Oracle Linux users...

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Google News - Thu, 07/04/2024 - 05:23

getrandom() In The vDSO Aims For Linux 6.11 To Provide Faster Yet Secure User-Space RNG

Phoronix - Thu, 07/04/2024 - 04:00
In the making the past two years by developer Jason Donenfeld (of WireGuard fame) is adding getrandom() to the vDSO in the name of better performance. In some tests this has yielded as much as a ~15x speed-up to performance for user-space obtaining crypographically secure random number generation. It's looking like for the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window, this work will finally be merged...

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