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Linux Mint 20.1 Installation, Review, and Customization

Tecmint - Fri, 06/25/2021 - 13:45
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Linux Mint is arguably one of the easiest and most user-friendly Linux-based operating systems to come by in the Linux world, and while it might be second to Ubuntu in popularity, it remains the

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Sway 1.6.1 Wayland Compositor Released With WLROOTS 0.14

Phoronix - Fri, 06/25/2021 - 12:00
Simon Ser has released Sway 1.6.1 as the newest version of this popular i3-inspired Wayland compositor...

AMD SFH Linux Driver Updated For "Next Gen" Ryzen Laptops

Phoronix - Fri, 06/25/2021 - 06:50
There's the next chapter to the unfortunately rather sad state of the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub (SFH) driver support under Linux...

Another Test Drive With Crocus Gallium3D On Old Intel Hardware

Phoronix - Fri, 06/25/2021 - 04:00
Since Crocus was merged into mainline Mesa last week we have been looking at benchmarks of this new open-source Intel Gallium3D driver designed exclusively for older Intel graphics hardware (i965 Gen4 through Haswell Gen7, plus Cherrvyiew and experimental Gen8 Broadwell) compared to the existing open-source i965 classic driver. Prior articles have looked at the quite good performance with Haswell while Sandy Bridge is in somewhat rough shape. Today's testing is going in the middle and looking at the Crocus vs. i965 OpenGL driver performance for Ivy Bridge with the once great Core i7 3770K.

Dell BIOS/UEFI Under Attack From New Vulnerabilities - Use FWUPD For The Latest Updates

Phoronix - Fri, 06/25/2021 - 00:07
For those wondering about the recent skyrocketing in LVFS/FWUPD usage for Linux firmware updates, it appears to be attributed to Dell pushing out a massive number of updates with more than one hundred models impacted by newly-disclosed BIOS/UEFI vulnerabilities...

Microsoft Announces Windows 11 - Benchmarks Against Linux To Begin Soon

Phoronix - Fri, 06/25/2021 - 00:00
As expected this morning Microsoft officially lifted the curtain on Windows 11 as the latest evolutionary step to their operating system past Windows 10...

Amazon Launches AWS BugBust With A Goal To Fix One Million Software Bugs

Phoronix - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 23:30
Amazon today launched AWS BugBust as a global coding challenge where they are hoping to see one million software bugs addressed and to reduce technical debt by over $100 million USD...

Google Proposes An Open-Source Vulnerability Interchange Schema

Phoronix - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 21:15
As part of Google's latest work on trying to enhance open-source software security, months after starting their own open-source vulnerability database they are now looking to push an open-source vulnerability interchange schema to make it easier to exchange information on vulnerabilities and making it easier for automated analysis...

Linux Kernel's BPF Fixed Up Against Spectre Vulnerability Bypass

Phoronix - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 21:00
With the latest mainline Git kernel as well as the newest stable point releases as of Wednesday, a Spectre issue with the kernel's BPF subsystem has been addressed...

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