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Why transparency is critical to your open source project's security

opensource.com - Mon, 06/21/2021 - 15:00

The Biden Administration's recent executive order on cybersecurity aims to improve security assurance and the use of best practices. Transparency and project health are two factors that help to support security across the entire software industry—especially now.


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LFCA: Learn the Basic Concepts of Using Containers – Part 22

Tecmint - Mon, 06/21/2021 - 13:57
The post LFCA: Learn the Basic Concepts of Using Containers – Part 22 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Over time, as demand for rapid testing and deployment of applications grew coupled with faster business cycles, organizations were compelled to innovate in order to keep up with the fast-paced business environment. The quest

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Unvanquished 0.52.1 Brings Rendering Fixes, Flatpak For This Promising Open-Source Game

Phoronix - Mon, 06/21/2021 - 12:00
Following last month's Unvanquished 0.52 beta for this open-source game that has long been in development, Sunday marked the release of Unvanquished 0.52.1...

Linux 5.13-rc7 Released Following A Very Calm Week

Phoronix - Mon, 06/21/2021 - 06:51
Linus Torvalds is celebrating Father's Day by releasing Linux 5.13-rc7. Kernel maintainers and testers managed to keep him happy the father of Linux happy this week by keeping to a small change set for this late-stage release candidate...

AMD Continues Working To Mainline Their PTDMA Driver For Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 06/21/2021 - 03:25
Published all the way back in September 2019 was a Linux driver for supporting the Pass-Through DMA controller for EPYC processors. The PTDMA hardware allows for high bandwidth memory-to-memory and I/O copy operations. Now mid-way through 2021 that AMD PTDMA Linux driver remains in the works and is up to its tenth driver revision while waiting to see if it's now ready for mainline or further changes are still deemed necessary...

Experimental Reiser5 File-System Patch Updated For Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Sun, 06/20/2021 - 23:40
Back in April the out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system was updated for Linux 5.12 compatibility while now with Linux 5.13 being right around the corner, Edward Shishkin has updated the experimental Reiser5 file-system code for v5.12 compatibility...

Linux 5.13 Lands More Fixes To The Mucked Up FPU/XSTATE Handling Mess

Phoronix - Sun, 06/20/2021 - 19:23
Earlier this month Linux 5.13 disabled Intel's ENQCMD functionality for upcoming Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" processors as the kernel software code around it was deemed "broken beyond repair". More of the recent Intel-submitted patches around reworking kernel code in preparation for upcoming CPU features has been found to be rather hairy after already being mainlined and thus another batch of urgent x86 fixes were sent in this morning...

Mesa Lands Work Around Async glFlush - Should Help Workstation Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 06/20/2021 - 18:19
While vendors are increasingly just focused on Vulkan (and Direct3D under Windows), there still is plenty of OpenGL software out there especially in the workstation space where software vendors are slow to adapt. Well known RadeonSI OpenGL developer Marek Olšák of AMD landed another performance optimization this week that should benefit the likes of SPECviewperf...

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