Open-source News

GCC 12 Enables Auto-Vectorization For -O2 Optimization Level

Phoronix - Fri, 10/08/2021 - 22:06
A month ago was talk of GCC developers enabling the vectorizer at the common "-O2" optimization level and now that change has landed into the GCC 12 development code-base...

Flatpak 1.12 Released - Better Sub-Sandbox Handling To Benefit Steam

Phoronix - Fri, 10/08/2021 - 19:34
Flatpak 1.12 was just released along with issuing Flatpak 1.10.4 to address a security vulnerability in the portal support...

Linux 5.16 To Add Intel Encrypted PXP, Alder Lake S Declared Stable & Ready

Phoronix - Fri, 10/08/2021 - 18:53
A new batch of Intel kernel graphics driver code was mailed out today to DRM-Next for staging ahead of next month's Linux 5.16 kernel merge window. Lots of notable changes in this pull!..

X.Org Modesetting Driver Will Now Better Handle Multi-Montior Mixed-VRR Setups

Phoronix - Fri, 10/08/2021 - 18:11
The xf86-video-modesetting DDX driver that is commonly in use for systems running an X.Org Server will soon find better support if you have a multi-monitor configuration where only some displays can support variable rate refresh (VRR / Adaptive-Sync / FreeSync)...

Intel Continues Optimizing Linux For Optane DC Persistent Memory Servers

Phoronix - Fri, 10/08/2021 - 17:45
With the Linux 5.15 kernel there is a patch to benefit tiered memory systems with a focus on servers having persistent memory. That patch is demoting pages during page reclamation to slower tiers of memory such as Optane DC persistent memory. Intel continues building on that and other persistent memory kernel work for plumbing the kernel with optimized memory placement for these modern servers...

3 more phases of DevSecOps transformation

opensource.com - Fri, 10/08/2021 - 15:01

Making a major operations transition must be a long-term and well-planned process. Because DevSecOps is an important step in the DevOps journey for your organization, you are more likely to find success if you introduce and implement your transformation in phases.


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3 new features of the latest OpenPGP.js version

opensource.com - Fri, 10/08/2021 - 15:00

OpenPGP.js is a cryptography library that implements the OpenPGP standard, most commonly used for email encryption. ProtonMail, Mailvelope, and FlowCrypt all use OpenPGP.js, to name a few. That means the OpenPGP.js library encrypts millions of users' messages.


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Nethogs – Monitor Linux Network Traffic Usage Per Process

Tecmint - Fri, 10/08/2021 - 12:00
The post Nethogs – Monitor Linux Network Traffic Usage Per Process first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

There are tons of open-source network monitoring tools available for the Linux operating systems on the web. Say, you can use the iftop command to monitor bandwidth usage, netstat command, or ss command to

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Looking back on 30 years of Linux history with Red Hat's Sebastian Hetze

Red Hat News - Fri, 10/08/2021 - 12:00

Sebastian Hetze is a Red Hat Principal Solution Architect, but was a taxi cab driver when he first started getting into free software. We've seen people from all different backgrounds contribute to Linux and open source. Read his story:

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