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Google's Lyra v0.0.2 Speech Codec Gets Rid Of The Binary Blob

Phoronix - Tue, 06/29/2021 - 02:20
Earlier this year Google announced the Lyra voice codec that could work with AV1 video for video chats over 56kbps modems. Google is today shipping its newest Lyra version...

Intel To Disable TSX By Default On More CPUs With New Microcode

Phoronix - Tue, 06/29/2021 - 00:18
Intel is going to be disabling Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) by default for various Skylake through Coffee Lake processors with forthcoming microcode updates. Yes, this does mean performance implications for workloads benefiting from TSX. This change has seemingly not been talked about much at all publicly and I just happened to become aware of it when looking through new kernel patches...

GNU Linux-libre 5.13-gnu Released For The Latest Kernel Deblobbing

Phoronix - Mon, 06/28/2021 - 22:35
Following yesterday's release of the Linux 5.13 kernel, the GNU folks have released GNU Linux-libre 5.13-gnu as their downstream that strips out support for loading binary-only firmware/microcode, blocks the ability to load binary-only kernel modules, and other sanitization work in the name of software freedom...

Hantro VPU Driver With Linux 5.14 Adds G2 Decoder Support With HEVC

Phoronix - Mon, 06/28/2021 - 22:25
The Hantro media driver within the Linux kernel for supporting the Hantro IP-based VPU found in Rockchip and NXP i.MX8M SoCs is seeing improvements with the in-development Linux 5.14 kernel...

FESCo Says "Yes" To Fedora 35 Using Yescrypt For Hashing Shadow Passwords

Phoronix - Mon, 06/28/2021 - 18:21
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee has said "yes" to using Yescrypt for hashing shadow passwords with this distribution's next release. Using Yescrypt in place of SHA256/SHA512 should lead to greater security for new user accounts...

Core-Scheduling For Linux 5.14 To Reduce SMT/HT Information Leak Risks, Side Channels

Phoronix - Mon, 06/28/2021 - 18:06
Among the early pull requests for the just-opened Linux 5.14 merge window are the scheduler updates that includes the introduction of Core Scheduling. The Core Scheduling functionality has been in the works for the past few years by multiple vendors for better securing SMT systems following various vulnerabilities coming to light around Hyper Threading...

KVM With Linux 5.14 Brings ARM MTE, Hyper-V Optimizations

Phoronix - Mon, 06/28/2021 - 16:23
The KVM changes were submitted early ahead of the now-open Linux 5.14 merge window...

Query your Linux operating system like a database

opensource.com - Mon, 06/28/2021 - 15:02

Linux offers a lot of commands to help users gather information about their host operating system: listing files or directories to check attributes; querying to see what packages are installed, processes are running, and services start at boot; or learning about the system's hardware.

Each command uses its own output format to list this information. You need to use tools like grep, sed, and awk to filter the results to find specific information. Also, a lot of this information changes frequently, leading to changes in the system's state.


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