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How to Encrypt Full Disk While Installing Ubuntu 22.04

Tecmint - Thu, 05/26/2022 - 12:22
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Linux distributions have done a great job to get additional protection by bringing full disk encryption and being the market leader. Ubuntu also is bundled with numerous features and disk encryption is one of

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Intel-Led Cloud-Hypervisor 24 Released For Rust-Written VMM

Phoronix - Thu, 05/26/2022 - 12:00
Cloud-Hypervisor as the open-source, Rust-based virtual machine monitor with a focus on security is out with its latest feature release. Cloud-Hypervisor started as one of many Intel open-source projects that last year shifted to under the Linux Foundation umbrella but still sees contributions from Intel as well as other industry leaders like Microsoft and Arm. Cloud-Hypervisor 24.0 is the newest version of this Rust VMM..

Linux 5.19 Networking Brings Big Improvements With Big TCP, PureLiFi, More Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 05/26/2022 - 06:40
The networking subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 5.19 kernel with big updates to core networking code as well as a lot of individual driver work this cycle both for wired and wireless networking...

NVIDIA VA-API 0.0.6 Driver Works On Multi-Threaded Decode, Improved GPU Selection

Phoronix - Thu, 05/26/2022 - 03:00
The open-source, unofficial project providing a NVIDIA VA-API driver on Linux systems built atop the proprietary driver's NVDEC video decode interface is out with a new feature release. This NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver effort continues to be driven in large part for allowing GPU-accelerated video acceleration in Firefox and other software only targeting the open Video Acceleration API...

RadeonSI Adds EGL Context High Priority Support To Help Wayland Compositors

Phoronix - Thu, 05/26/2022 - 02:44
Landing today in the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code-base for Mesa 22.2 is support for the EGL_IMG_context_priority extension. The RadeonSI EGL_IMG_context_priority support was contributed by a KDE developer with the motivation of ensuring Wayland compositors can have high priority for rendering...

Linux 5.19 Finally Removes Obsolete x86 a.out Support

Phoronix - Thu, 05/26/2022 - 01:15
Way back in 2019 the Linux kernel deprecated a.out support given that it was superseded by ELF, which itself has already been supported for over two decades going back to Linux 1.x kernels. With Linux 5.19, the obsolete 32-bit x86 a.out support is finally being removed for good from the kernel...

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