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RISC-V Gets Expanded Stack Randomization With Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Sun, 09/12/2021 - 18:04
In addition to the RISC-V changes merged last week for the Linux 5.15 kernel, a second batch of patches was merged this weekend...

What I miss about open source conferences

opensource.com - Sun, 09/12/2021 - 15:00

A typical work year would involve my attending maybe six to eight conferences in person and speaking at quite a few of them. A few years ago, I stopped raiding random booths at the exhibitions usually associated with these for t-shirts for the simple reason that I had too many of them. That's not to say that I wouldn't accept one here or there if it was particularly nice, or an open source project which I esteemed particularly, for instance. Or ones which I thought my kids would like—they're not "cool" but are at least useful for sleepwear, apparently.


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Linux Preparing To Slightly Loosen Its Spectre Defaults

Phoronix - Sun, 09/12/2021 - 12:00
A change first proposed last year to the Linux kernel's Spectre mitigation defaults looks like it will soon be sent in for the mainline kernel...

The Latest Progress On Rust For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 09/12/2021 - 02:30
While the Rust programming language support for usage within the kernel isn't landing for the Linux 5.15 merge window ending this weekend, that effort remains ongoing. A status update on the effort was shared this week about Rust usage for the Linux kernel...

Another Batch Of RadeonSI Optimizations Land In Mesa 21.3

Phoronix - Sun, 09/12/2021 - 01:15
Another batch of minor optimizations were merged to Mesa 21.3 for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Alder Lake Support Added To Intel's TCC Driver In Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Sat, 09/11/2021 - 21:00
While much of Intel's next-gen Alder Lake processor support appears to be in good shape for Linux 5.14, some remaining items are landing for the current Linux 5.15 cycle. The latest Alder Lake support hitting the kernel is for Intel's TCC cooling driver...

CoreCtrl 1.2 Brings Support For More Sensors, Voltage Offsets

Phoronix - Sat, 09/11/2021 - 19:45
CoreCtrl 1.2 was released this week as the open-source, independently-developed application for exposing more sensor support on Linux and offering various controls aroudnd over/under-clocking and other tuning. At the moment CoreCtrl is primarily focused on making the most use of AMD Radeon GPUs under Linux with some options not otherwise readily available on the platform...

OpenShot 2.6.1 Released For This Open-Source Video Editor

Phoronix - Sat, 09/11/2021 - 18:37
Released in August was the big OpenShot 2.6 video editor update while this weekend has been succeeded by its first point release...

KDE Sees More Plasma Wayland Fixes As Plasma 5.23 Hits Its Soft Feature Freeze

Phoronix - Sat, 09/11/2021 - 18:13
It's been a busy start to September for the KDE project and is now under its soft feature freeze for Plasma 5.23...

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