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SALSA Back In Development As A Small ALSA Library For Linux Systems

Phoronix - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 18:03

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE is back to hacking on SALSA, the "small ALSA" library that he started a decade ago but hadn't seen a new release in six years or any code activity for the past four years... until this week...

SALSA Back In Development As A Small ALSA Library For Linux Systems - Phoronix

Google News - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 18:03

SALSA Back In Development As A Small ALSA Library For Linux Systems Phoronix

AMD Finally Enabling PSR By Default For Newer Hardware With Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 17:33

With it getting late into the Linux 5.15 kernel cycle, the focus is shifting by the Direct Rendering Driver maintainers from new feature work targeting the next cycle (5.16) to instead on bug fixes. AMD sent out a pull request of new AMDGPU Linux 5.16 material this week that is primarily delivering bug fixes but one notable addition is finally enabling PSR by default for newer GPUs...

Arch Linux vs Ubuntu - Ghacks Technology News

Google News - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 15:52

Arch Linux vs Ubuntu Ghacks Technology News

Microsoft Releases Sysmon for Linux - TechDecisions

Google News - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 15:00

Microsoft Releases Sysmon for Linux TechDecisions

Reach your open source community with content marketing

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

Both startups and more established firms are increasingly turning to content marketing as a way of reaching prospective customers.

However, corporate marketers often consider the open source software (OSS) community a challenge to reach. This article features ways your technology and content marketing teams can work together to target and reach the community around an OSS project your organization supports.

Install Guacamole for Remote Linux/Windows Access in Ubuntu

Tecmint - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 14:18

The post Install Guacamole for Remote Linux/Windows Access in Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

As a system administrator, you may find yourself (today or in the future) working in an environment where Windows and Linux coexist. It is no secret that some big companies prefer (or have to)

The post Install Guacamole for Remote Linux/Windows Access in Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Devuan debuts version 4.0 – as usual without a hint of the hated systemd - The Register

Google News - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 09:58

Devuan debuts version 4.0 – as usual without a hint of the hated systemd The Register

The Dell Inspiron 15 3501 supports Linux - Notebookcheck.net

Google News - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 09:33

The Dell Inspiron 15 3501 supports Linux Notebookcheck.net

The "What If" Performance Cost To Kernel Page Table Isolation On AMD CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 10/15/2021 - 08:45

Made public this week by CPU security researchers at Graz University of Technology and CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security was the research paper published "AMD Prefetch Attacks through Power and Time". The paper points to AMD CPUs suffering from a side-channel leakage vulnerability through timing and power variations of the PREFETCH instruction. The paper argues that AMD CPUs should activate stronger page table isolation by default. AMD has now published their security response where they are not recommending any mitigation changes at this time. But what if Kernel Page Table Isolation (KPTI/PTI) proves necessary for AMD CPUs? Here are some initial benchmarks showing what that performance impact could look like.