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How to Install and Use ProtonVPN on Desktop Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 07/09/2021 - 14:17
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A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is an encrypted tunnel that extends over a public network. It allows users to securely browse and access resources over an internet connection with utmost privacy and confidentiality. [

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FUTEX2 Spun Up A Fifth Time For This Linux Interface To Help Windows Games

Phoronix - Fri, 07/09/2021 - 12:00
FUTEX2 continues to be worked on by Collabora as part of their work with Valve on enhancing Linux gaming support. With FUTEX2 the work is driven about enhancing the support for Windows games running on Linux with the likes of Steam Play...

Google Makes New Attempt At "UMCG" As Part Of Their Open-Sourcing Effort Around Fibers

Phoronix - Fri, 07/09/2021 - 08:24
Since 2013 Google has been working on Fibers as a promising user-space scheduling framework. Fibers has been in use at Google and delivering great results while recently they began work on open-sourcing this framework for Linux and as part of that working on the new "UMCG" code...

AMD SEV-SNP Support Revised For Linux + Updated Hyper-V Isolation VM Code

Phoronix - Fri, 07/09/2021 - 03:30
AMD engineers and their partners continue work towards upstreaming Secure Encrypted Virtualization's Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) support for the mainline Linux kernel...

GCC 8 Through GCC 11 Stable Plus GCC 12 Compiler Benchmarks

Phoronix - Fri, 07/09/2021 - 00:00
For today's benchmarking is a look at how the GNU Compiler Collection has performed over the past few years going from the GCC 8 stable series introduced in 2018 through the recently released GCC 11.1 stable feature release plus also including the current early development snapshot of GCC 12.

VKD3D-Proton 2.4 Released With Better Performance, Sparse 3D Textures

Phoronix - Thu, 07/08/2021 - 23:17
VKD3D-Proton 2.4 is now available as the latest feature release for this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan implementation that is part of Valve's Proton / Steam Play for running modern Windows games on Linux...

Libre-SOC Test ASIC Going To Fabrication, Using TSMC 180nm Process

Phoronix - Thu, 07/08/2021 - 22:30
Libre-SOC that started out as Libre RISC-V in aspiring to be an open-source software/hardware Vulkan accelerator but then renamed to Libre-SOC after changing over to the OpenPOWER architecture is now seeing test fabrication done using TSMC's 180nm process...

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