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GNOME 40 Mutter Lands Wayland Presentation-Time Support

Phoronix - Tue, 03/09/2021 - 00:11
The patch series implementing support for Wayland's Presentation-Time protocol within the Mutter compositor has been merged ahead of this month's GNOME 40 release...

AMD Has A Very Exciting Announcement Next Week

Phoronix - Mon, 03/08/2021 - 22:02
AMD has announced that next week on 15 March they will be hosting a digital launch event for the EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors...

Canonical Talks Up Why Ubuntu Is A Great Replacement To CentOS

Phoronix - Mon, 03/08/2021 - 21:09
Following the surprise announcement last year that CentOS 8 will be EOL'ed at the end of 2021 to focus instead on CentOS Stream and all the uncertainty that brought with Red Hat now being owned by IBM, new distributions like Rocky Linux were conceived while existing Linux distributions have been looking to capitalize on that move. Oracle Linux has been advertising how it's a great RHEL downstream while Canonical is now promoting how Ubuntu is a great replacement to CentOS...

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Might See Micro-Architecture Packages For Better Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 03/08/2021 - 19:35
One of the many great programs at SUSE is the roughly annual program where their developers can focus for one week on any new open-source development they desire. SUSE Hack Week has led to many great innovations and improvements since it began in the mid-2000s and for the Hack Week later this month there is one project attempt we are eager to see tackled...

Haiku Seeing Much Faster HTTP Code, Support For Downloading Files Larger Than 4GB

Phoronix - Mon, 03/08/2021 - 19:17
Over the past month developers on Haiku as the open-source operating system inspired by BeOS have continued advancing the project...

Researchers Discover Intel CPU Ring Interconnects Vulnerable To Side Channel Attack

Phoronix - Mon, 03/08/2021 - 19:09
University of Illinois researchers have discovered that Intel's CPU ring interconnects are vulnerable to exploit by side-channel attacks. This opens a whole new can of worms with the cross-core interconnect now being vulnerable to exploit but so far Intel doesn't appear to be overly concerned and there are some open questions on whether this interconnect exploit would still work with the latest Intel Xeon processors...

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