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Huawei Proposes In-Kernel Transactional Database For Security Purposes

Phoronix - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 18:28
While some Huawei engineers are currently facing criticism for submitting superfluous kernel patches in an effort to boost their own or the company's standing in the kernel community, other engineers are Huawei are working on more substantive kernel patches. Here's a rather peculiar new patch series out on Friday where a Huawei engineer is effectively proposing an in-kernel transactional database...

KDE Pushes More Plasma Wayland Improvements, Plug-in System For The Konsole

Phoronix - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 18:00
Even with Akademy 2021 this week as the annual KDE developer conference, thanks in part to it being a virtual event the KDE developers still managed to remain quite productive on new code changes...

How I helped my mom switch from Windows to Linux

opensource.com - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 15:00

The Large Hadron Collider is powered by Linux. Laptops on the International Space Station run on Linux.


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How to Migrate from CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux 8

Tecmint - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 13:37
The post How to Migrate from CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux 8 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Rocky Linux 8.4, codenamed Green Obsidian, is finally here! It was released on June 21, 2021, barely two months after the release of Rocky Linux 8.3 RC1 (Release Candidate 1) which is a beta

The post How to Migrate from CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux 8 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Coreboot Is Ridding Its Need For Intel's FSP-T Blob

Phoronix - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 03:45
Coreboot making progress on its temporary RAM initialization code (cache as RAM) means that its usage of the FSP-T binary blob is increasingly unnecessary...

Proton 6.3-5 Released With A Number Of Improvements For Windows Games On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 02:40
Valve and their partners have issued a new version of Proton for powering Steam Play to enjoy Windows games on Linux...

LLVM Clang 12 Benchmarks At Varying Optimization Levels, LTO

Phoronix - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 00:00
Earlier this month were benchmarks looking at GCC 11 performance with varying optimization levels and features like link-time optimizations. Stemming from reader requests, here are now similar reference benchmarks off LLVM Clang 12.0 on the same system with going from -O0 to -Ofast and toggling -march=native and LTO usage.

systemd 249-rc2 Released With New "ConditionOSRelease" Directive

Phoronix - Fri, 06/25/2021 - 23:00
Earlier this month systemd 249-rc1 arrived with a variety of new features and improvements. Now for closing out the month is a second release candidate...

The 13 Most Interesting Changes Of Linux 5.13 From Apple M1 To Security Enhancements

Phoronix - Fri, 06/25/2021 - 22:07
If all is looking well on Sunday, Linus Torvalds will be releasing Linux 5.13 as stable rather than going with a 5.13-rc8 test release and pushing the final version back by an additional release. In either case, Linux 5.13 is coming out soon and with many new features in tow...

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