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BPF-Based Linux Firewall "bpfilter" Shows Impressive Performance Potential

Phoronix - Fri, 09/24/2021 - 04:00
Generating much excitement back in 2018 was bpfilter for the potential to better Linux's firewall and packet filtering by making it more robust and performance. Recently work on this BPF-based firewall solution was renewed and the performance potential over iptables and nftables is looking very good for the future...

Epic Games Announces Easy Anti-Cheat For Linux - Including Wine/Proton

Phoronix - Fri, 09/24/2021 - 02:40
Not too surprising given the Steam Deck is inching closer towards release and we've known Valve has been working to improve the anti-cheat situation for games on Linux, but today EAC owner Epic Games officially announced Easy Anti-Cheat for both Linux and macOS...

Updated "FUTEX2" futex_waitv Patches Posted To Address Latest Feedback

Phoronix - Fri, 09/24/2021 - 02:16
The promising FUTEX2 work focused on improving the Linux performance for running Windows games via Wine/Proton by extending futex to wait on multiple locks is still moving forward...

A Fix Is Pending For That Linux 5.15 Performance Regression

Phoronix - Thu, 09/23/2021 - 21:15
Last week was the article on noticing various workloads performing slower on the Linux 5.15 development kernel. There is now a patch pending that in testing so far does indeed correct the performance drop on this forthcoming kernel.

Microsoft's "CLOn12" Mesa Code Adds SPIR/SPIR-V Support

Phoronix - Thu, 09/23/2021 - 21:09
Microsoft's "CLOn12" effort to allow OpenCL over DirectX 12 by leveraging Mesa now has landed a major rework to its code within Mesa...

GCC 12 Adds Stack Variable Auto-Initialization, Other Security Improvements Forthcoming

Phoronix - Thu, 09/23/2021 - 19:17
Qing Zhao of Oracle presented yesterday during the LPC2021 GNU Tools Track around the work they and others have been engaged in for improving the security of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...

Lennart: Linux Comes Up Short Around Disk Encryption, Authenticated Boot Security

Phoronix - Thu, 09/23/2021 - 18:23
Most Linux distributions are currently coming up short from offering adequate security around full disk encryption and authenticated boot. Prominent Linux developer Lennart Poettering even argues that your data is "probably more secure if stored on current ChromeOS, Android, Windows or macOS devices."..

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