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Open-Source Driver Flips On OpenGL ES 3.1 For Select NVIDIA GeForce 200 Series GPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 06/07/2021 - 22:06
Sadly there isn't much to report on at this time around improved open-source "Nouveau" driver support for the recent GeForce RTX 20 and RTX 30 series while even the GTX 900 and GTX 1000 series graphics processors are in poor shape for this unofficial river. But when it comes to the aging GeForce 200 series, select models there are finally seeing OpenGL ES 3.1 supported by this open-source driver...

Mesa 21.2's Direct3D 12 Driver Now Allows For Easy Multi-GPU Selection

Phoronix - Mon, 06/07/2021 - 20:29
Mesa's Direct3D 12 driver maintained by Microsoft as part of their WSL and Windows OpenGL-over-D3D12 efforts has added a means of being able to select between multiple GPUs/adapters...

Qt 6.2 Enters Feature Freeze With More Qt5 Modules Ported To Qt6

Phoronix - Mon, 06/07/2021 - 18:08
While Qt 6.1 released just one month ago, Qt 6.2 as of today is already into its feature freeze. This quicker than normal time to feature freeze comes due to this year's Qt releases being tightened up following the Qt 6.0 debut at the end of last year. Qt 6.2 will be the first Long Term Support (LTS) release of the Qt6 series...

Linux 5.14 To Allow EXT4 Journal Checkpoints From User-Space For Extra Privacy

Phoronix - Mon, 06/07/2021 - 17:51
Queued up now into the EXT4 file-system's "dev" tree is the recent work on a journal checkpoint ioctl (EXT4_IOC_CHECKPOINT) and optional support for TRIM/discard or zero-out support on journal flushes. This is the work that came about in recent months in working to ensure the privacy of deleted file names from the system...

Vulkan 1.2.180 Released With Two New Extensions

Phoronix - Mon, 06/07/2021 - 17:11
Vulkan 1.2.180 is out as the latest revision to this graphics/compute interface. Vulkan 1.2.180 comes with a number of fixes/clarifications to the spec plus the addition of two more extensions...

How to Migrate from CentOS 8 to AlmaLinux 8.4

Tecmint - Mon, 06/07/2021 - 15:42
The post How to Migrate from CentOS 8 to AlmaLinux 8.4 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In our earlier guide, we walked you through the installation of AlmaLinux 8.4. If you have CentOS 8 installed, an automated migration script is available to help you migrate seamlessly to the latest version

The post How to Migrate from CentOS 8 to AlmaLinux 8.4 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Identify security properties on Linux using checksec

opensource.com - Mon, 06/07/2021 - 15:02

Compiling source code produces a binary. During compilation, you can provide flags to the compiler to enable or disable certain properties on the binary. Some of these properties are relevant to security.

Checksec is a nifty little tool (and shell script) that, among other functions, identifies the security properties that were built into a binary when it was compiled. A compiler might enable some of these properties by default, and you might have to provide specific flags to enable others.


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Test arbitrary pod failures on Kubernetes with kube-monkey

opensource.com - Mon, 06/07/2021 - 15:01

I have covered multiple chaos engineering tools in this series.


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