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Fedora 35 Cleared For Release Next Week

Phoronix - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 02:08
After dealing with blocker bugs the past two weeks, Fedora 35 is now confirmed for releasing next week...

Linux + GCC/Clang Patches Coming For Straight-Line Speculation Mitigation On x86/x86_64

Phoronix - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 21:54
Disclosed last year by Arm was their processors affected by a straight-line speculation vulnerability. In this case the processor could speculatively execute instructions linearly in memory past an unconditional change in control flow. There has been talk about possible straight-line speculation on x86/x86_64 but without any action while now GCC and LLVM/Clang compiler developers along with Linux kernel developers are preparing such mitigation support...

Sway's wlroots Lands Initial Vulkan Renderer

Phoronix - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 21:24
The wlroots modular Wayland compositing library that was started by the Sway compositor now has an initial Vulkan renderer merged...

Ubuntu 21.10 Performance Continues In The Right Direction For AArch64

Phoronix - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 21:00
As a good sign ahead of the important Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release in the spring, Ubuntu 21.10 further ups the 64-bit ARM (AArch64) performance. Here is a look at some of the gains in going from Ubuntu 21.04 to the recently released Ubuntu 21.10.

Blender 3.x Roadmap Has Big Plans For Vulkan, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 19:22
With Blender 3.0 releasing soon, the Blender project has published a Blender 3.x road-map outlining some of their plans for future releases...

Embedded DisplayPort 1.5 Specification Published

Phoronix - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 16:52
It's been six years already since VESA published the Embedded DisplayPort 1.4b specification while finally it's been succeeded by eDP 1.5...

5 lessons I learned about chaos engineering for Kubernetes

opensource.com - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 15:01

Kubernetes is a complex framework for a complex job. Managing several containers can be complicated, and managing hundreds and thousands of them is essentially just not humanly possible. Kubernetes makes highly available and highly scaled cloud applications a reality, and it usually does its job remarkably well. However, people don't tend to notice the days and months of success. Months and years of smooth operation aren't the things that result in phone calls at 2 AM. In IT, it's the failures that count. And unfortunately, failures don't run on a schedule.


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