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Microsoft Engineer Proposes "TRAMPFD" For Improving Linux Security

Phoronix - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 02:00
A Microsoft engineer is proposing the Trampoline File Descriptor "TRAMPFD" as a new kernel API for securely dealing with trampoline code on systems. There are concerns already over the potential performance implications but there does seem to be some interest in this approach...

Valve Hires Another Developer To Work On RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 00:35
Valve appears to have hired yet another open-source graphics driver developer and will initially be working on the Mesa Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Hits Beta With New/Updated Application Streams

Phoronix - Tue, 07/28/2020 - 23:03
Red Hat has announced the public beta of the forthcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 release...

OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Reaches Alpha

Phoronix - Tue, 07/28/2020 - 22:42
Along with OpenMandriva working on a rolling-release version of its distribution long ago derived from Mandrake/Mandriva, OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 is coming along as the next stable release...

Microsoft + Oculus Shipping First Conformant OpenXR 1.0 Implementations

Phoronix - Tue, 07/28/2020 - 21:24
The Khronos Group announced this morning that Microsoft and Oculus are the first two companies shipping conformant OpenXR 1.0 implementations...

GNOME OS Images Available For Testing

Phoronix - Tue, 07/28/2020 - 21:13
GNOME OS as the Linux build with bleeding edge GNOME software for testing continues taking shape and a call for testing has been issued...

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