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Intel Tidies Up CET While Waiting For It To Land In The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 21:53
Intel's SGX enclaves support patches for the Linux kernel have been through 40+ rounds of review at this point over the past many months as they try to get this security feature into the mainline Linux kernel. But SGX isn't the only Intel security feature that's been having a long process for mainlining: Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) is in a similar boat...

More Intel Tiger Lake Fixes Heading Into Linux 5.11, eLLC Caching For Display Buffers

Phoronix - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 19:39
Another round of Intel graphics driver changes were submitted last week to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month's Linux 5.11 merge window...

AMDVLK 2020.Q4.4 Released

Phoronix - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 19:19
AMDVLK 2020.Q4.4 is out this morning as the newest source snapshot of this official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver...

Linux's Stateless H.264 Decode Interface Ready To Be Deemed Stable

Phoronix - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 16:32
The Linux kernel's stateless video decoder interface is used for video decoding where no state needs to be kept between processed video frames and allows for independently decoding each video frame. The H.264 stateless decode interface for the Linux kernel has been in the works for a few years and is now deemed ready and stable for dealing with modern stateless codecs...

My top 7 Rust commands for using Cargo

opensource.com - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 16:02

I've been using Rust for a little over six months now. I'm far from an expert, but I have stumbled across many, many gotchas and learned many, many things along the way; things that I hope will be of use to those who are learning what is easily my favourite programming language.

This is the third article in my miniseries for Rust newbs like me. You can find my other excursions into Rust in:


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Forget ZFS and use Btrfs

opensource.com - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 16:01

Btrfs has been available for Linux for several years, so you may already be familiar with it. If not, you may have questions about it, especially if you use Fedora Workstation (Btrfs is now its default filesystem). This article aims to help you get familiar with it and its advanced features, such as copy-on-write and checksums.


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