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Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" Development Begins

Phoronix - Wed, 04/28/2021 - 23:21
Following last week's release of Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo", the Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" cycle has now begun...

Linux 5.13 Lands Support For Randomizing Stack Offsets Per Syscall

Phoronix - Wed, 04/28/2021 - 20:53
One of the new security features in Linux 5.13 is the ability to randomize kernel stack offsets at each system call. This optional feature is now mainlined...

openSUSE Leap 15.3 RC Available For Testing

Phoronix - Wed, 04/28/2021 - 20:42
The release candidate phase has begun for openSUSE's upcoming Leap 15.3 Linux distribution release...

Linux is Turning 30 Years Old & Printk Is Still Being Refined

Phoronix - Wed, 04/28/2021 - 19:07
The printk() function dates all the way back to the original Linux kernel release and even with Linux turning thirty years old this week, work on printk is not over...

AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 Brings Minor Improvements But No Vulkan Ray-Tracing Yet

Phoronix - Wed, 04/28/2021 - 18:15
AMD engineers today published AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 as their latest open-source public code drop of their official Linux Vulkan driver...

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