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AMD has published its first code drop of the quarter for their open-source "AMDVLK" Vulkan driver that is derived from their official driver sources but making use of the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end rather than their proprietary shader compiler...

Why Whitehurst is stepping away from IBM  ZDNet

Fixes to the Plasma Wayland session continue to be quite steady work in the KDE camp even with the support becoming quite mature and good enough for day-to-day use...

The Linux 5.14 char/misc updates landed this week in the kernel. The "char/misc" area continues to serve as a growing catch-all portion of the code-base not jiving well elsewhere in other subsystems...

Linux 5.14 Lands Updates For Its "Various Driver Subsystems Mushed Together" Tree  Phoronix

LLVM 12.0.1 is available today as the only planned point release to this spring's release of LLVM 12...

Windows 11 WSL2 performance compares very favorably with bare metal Ubuntu Linux in benchmarks  BetaNews

A security policy is a set of permissions that govern access to a system, whether the system is an organization, a computer, a network, an application, a file, or any other resource. Security policies often start from the top down: Assume nobody can do anything, and then allow exceptions.

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As distributed and cloud computing adoption increase, things are intrinsically getting harder to debug. This article shares a situation where you would expect a library to safeguard against different versions of an API. However, it didn't and it caused unexpected behavior that was very hard to debug. This might be a useful example of how ripping out layers of abstractions is sometimes necessary to get to the root cause of a problem in a systematic manner.

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There are a lot of benefits to starting an open source project. In general, open source projects benefit from collaboration, adoption, transparency, lower ownership costs, development best practices, more contributors and reviewers, and better quality.

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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 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...

Sophos acquires Intel-backed Linux security vendor Capsule8  CRN Australia

Linux Mint 20.2 arrives, upgrade path made available too  Neowin

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...

Ubuntu Linux-maker Canonical is 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year finalist  BetaNews

Linux Foundation celebrates 30 years of Torvalds' kernel with a dry T-shirt contest  The Register

AMD engineers and their partners continue work towards upstreaming Secure Encrypted Virtualization's Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) support for the mainline Linux kernel...

Download Linux Mint 20.2 today and tell Microsoft you don't want Windows 11  BetaNews

Sophos Buys Intel-backed Capsule8 To Bolster Enterprise Linux Systems  CRN